81 thoughts on “Saturday’s Papers

    1. Ringsend Incinerator

      Isn’t he the basket weaver who ordained Sinead O’Connor as a priest because she gave him a few quid to fix the leaky roof on this churshc?

  1. Ringsend Incinerator

    Leaving cert students – whingey moaners – work in the fields picking fruit to earn your marks. The more you pick the more points you get…

    1. GiggidyGoo

      Maybe Cian can tell us.

      May 2018, an extension of a year was granted
      May 2019, an extension of another year was granted
      Now Finian McGrath, junior health minister is set to deliver a similar message from a simon Harris.

      “One of the more serious things Dignam’s report included is the circumstance as to how Grace was left in the foster home in 1996 despite an earlier decision to remove her from the home.
      It is known that the foster father of Grace directly lobbied Michael Noonan when he was minister for health, claiming she was in a “happy and secure” home.”

      ( https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/grace-inquiry-into-sexual-abuse-case-of-disabled-girl-expected-to-be-delayed-again-998357.html )

  2. Fintan Frobisher

    Phew.I think we got away with it lads.
    Minimal coverage of VE Day. Not too much focus on Ireland’s shameful appeasement of the Nazis and the weasel action of Dev signing Adolf’s Book of Condolence.Mind you the many relatives of those thousands of brave Irish men who ignored the state’s cowardice and gave their lives to keep Europe free might have appreciated a few words.
    But I don’t think anyone noticed. We keep our heads down. A fitting commemoration 75 years on.

    1. V

      Is repeating yourself
      To yourself
      The Broadsheet equivalent of buying followers, likes and views

      Lads?

      1. V

        Just in case ye think my reply is a bit coronabatty

        Yer man there FF intan robisher
        Replied to himself directly – with the exact same post
        Word for word
        And again further down

        Broadsheet just cleaned up after him
        And left the spur without its formation context

        Anyway, have a good one everyone

    2. Rosette of Sirius

      Shouldn’t you be singing ‘two world wars and one World Cup, doodah’? All while doing the milk the cow dance?! I hope you flight a good hour or two of that in yesterday.

    3. Nigel

      In fairness, we skipped right over Britain Giving Czechislovakia To Hitler Day. Perhaps you should now go celebrate The British War Generation Voting To Establish The Welfare State Day?

    4. Formerly known as @ireland.com

      @Fintan – According to the Daily Mail, it was victory OVER Europe. Nice, not like the Brits to rewrite history. Somehow, the Germans have to feel guilt forever but the Brits get to be freedom lovers.

    1. Formerly known as @ireland.com

      Well played. I saw the BBC News. The Nicholas Witchell description of the queen and what she did on VE Day was the stuff of Kim Jong Il. The totally OTT praise of an undeserving individual. I bet most loyal subjects look at North Korea in horror, with no sense of irony.

  3. Rosette of Sirius

    Tell ya what. If folks are panicked about the lad from Normal People getting his Lad our, wait till they get to the really dirty stuff a few episodes later… poor oul Tommy from Liveline will have a stroke. Fnarrr.

      1. Clampers Outside

        Good grief… Didn’t even know anyone was saying that, jeeeez…. urgh..

  4. SOQ

    I and others posted links to the Plandemic interview with Dr Judy Mikovits on YouTube which was subsequently banned. The other social media outlets followed suit but for anyone interested, it is still on Bitchute. The thing to bear in mind with these things is that is usually an anterior motive and in Judy’s case, she is launching a book on the subject so- the more controversy the better.

    Being banned is good for business as there is a certain percentage of people whom will make a deliberate point of getting to it and you can never really ban something on the internet anyways- just remove it from your own platform. I suspect that the mainstreaming of ‘The Streisand Effect’ as a marketing tool is now a thing.

    But YouTube’s zealot like adherence to the WHO’s guidelines may be its downfall if they are proved wrong. Predictive modelling has been the first causality of all this but a lot of people are also waking up to that fact that the pharmaceutical industry may not be acting in good faith either. There is big money to be made in vaccines and ongoing treatments but not in cures- especially if the drugs are out of patent and anyone can make them.

    1. bisted

      …preach the controversy – the last time I heard that it was uttered by a fundamental christian creationist…funny, you ended one of you recent comments saying it was ‘just a theory’…the same creationist said the same thing about evolution…just saying…

      1. SOQ

        Judy makes some valid points- especially about how the medical scientific community is driven by patents.

        If may just unpack that Pharma point a little bit as it is directly relevant to Mikovits. We currently have a situation with HIV where treatments can bring the viral load down to zero and where patients become non-infectious. We also have something called PrEP (Pre Exposure Prophylaxis) which greatly reduces the risk of contracting the virus in the first place.

        From a Pharmaceutical perspective this is an ideal situation as it is an ongoing revenue stream with little or no effort. But one has to wonder how they can be such progress and yet, unable to find a cure- there is certainly no financial incentive to find one as that would be killing the golden goose.

        1. Formerly known as @ireland.com

          Are all of the labs in the world going to go along with this conspiracy with CV19, sharing the profits? I expect some recalcitrant, perhaps in a country not obsessed with greed and profit, will come up with a cure and share it around.

          1. SOQ

            In the case of HIV I am suggesting it may be a business model as the very same thing is happening in IT, yet no-one is shouting CONSPIRACY about that. You can no longer buy MS Office, only rent it. A yearly subscription which generates a revenue stream- all IT is going the same way.

            In the case of CoVid-19, what Mikovits is suggesting (I think- I am not really sure) is that because they are made in different types of animal linings, vaccines unintentionally contain residues of other coronavirus- and that CoVid-19 interacts with them. There is clearly some reason why some people get sick but the majority do not.

            Now this is a woman who was one of the world’s leading experts in the field of HIV, who was thrown in jail then went into hiding for fear of her life. She had a five year gag order placed on her meaning except by email she wasn’t even allowed to communicate with her own family- even though she was never charged let alone convicted of a single crime.

            Either way- back to my original point- her book is the Amazon best seller this week- and it is sold out. If that book is factually incorrect- they won’t be long hauling her into court of course, in fact they would have done so by now I expect.

          2. guns and drums and drums and guns harooo

            every single one of them

            anyone who thinks otherwise is just brainwashed by MSM and a corporate shill

    2. guns and drums and drums and guns harooo

      proved wrong about what exactly?

      About 100,000 dead in the US?
      40,000 in the UK?

      How much more proof do we need?

    3. Lilly

      I watched this video, SOQ. She seems credible, but how could an American citizen be dragged out of her home and imprisoned without a trial in this day and age?

          1. SOQ

            That appears to be a selective list of ‘there is no evidence of’. In particular no mention of the five year gag which I assume was some sort of an employment contract thing- but even that doesn’t make sense as they are specific to work.

            She was arrested and jailed for being a fugitive from justice but according to her, they never found any incriminating evidence, which is why no charges ever existed.

            Who knows- it could all be a ploy to shift copies of the book but that gag does not make sense. Even if only 10% of what she says is true- that would be enough to stop them from going after her.

            There are other remote interviews out there now which dig a little deeper btw.

          2. f_lawless

            Quote:
            Mikovits: Oh yeah, I’m sure it occurred between the North Carolina laboratories, Fort Detrick, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, and the Wuhan laboratory.

            There is no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated at WIV. NIAID’s funding of a U.S. group that works with the Wuhan lab has been stopped, which outraged many scientists.

            That seems less about addressing her assertions and more about framing things in such a skewed way so as to effectively gaslight the reader into believing that there isn’t a debate raging among the scientific community about the ethics behind the kind of research going on at the Wuhan lab (and others including at Fort Detrick).

            Who are these “many scientists” who are outraged about funding being stopped for research at the Wuhan lab? The article never says. Click through to the other article linked, and only a couple are quoted – but the one’s with a stake in the game who are directly involved in those research programs.

            If the Sciencemag article was in any way balanced it would have at least mentioned the “gain of function” research with pathogens that Mikovits alludes to and why the average person should be very concerned about the extreme dangers of it. As this Vox article puts it “allowing gain-of-function research means running unacceptable risks with millions of lives. It’s high time to rethink that.”
            https://www.vox.com/2020/5/1/21243148/why-some-labs-work-on-making-viruses-deadlier-and-why-they-should-stop

            I don’t know if all Mikovits claims are true, but l got a distinct whiff of “hit piece” of that Sciencemag article all in all.

          3. SOQ

            Of course you did- that is what is was written to be.

            She is of the opinion that some of the symptoms did not come from a member of the group of viruses known as Corona- is she wrong?

          4. SOQ

            Seriously BS? Grow some balls- or at least understand what you have just deleted.

            Dear me I’m being a bit obnoxious for someone just off the naughty step, aren’t I?

          5. f_lawless

            Not sure why my comment went missing – maybe it was just a glitch of some sort..anyway, I’ll try re-posting:..
            _____________________
            Quote:
            Mikovits: Oh yeah, I’m sure it occurred between the North Carolina laboratories, Fort Detrick, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, and the Wuhan laboratory.

            There is no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated at WIV. NIAID’s funding of a U.S. group that works with the Wuhan lab has been stopped, which outraged many scientists.

            That seems less about addressing her assertions and more about framing things in such a skewed way so as to effectively gaslight the reader into believing that there isn’t a debate raging among the scientific community about the ethics behind the kind of research going on at the Wuhan lab (and others including at Fort Detrick).

            Who are these “many scientists” who are outraged about funding being stopped for research at the Wuhan lab? The article never says. Click through to the other article linked, and only a couple are quoted – but the one’s with a stake in the game who are directly involved in those research programs.

            If the Sciencemag article was in any way balanced it would have at least mentioned the “gain of function” research with pathogens that Mikovits alludes to and why the average person should be very concerned about the extreme dangers of it. As this Vox article puts it “allowing gain-of-function research means running unacceptable risks with millions of lives. It’s high time to rethink that.”
            https://www.vox.com/2020/5/1/21243148/why-some-labs-work-on-making-viruses-deadlier-and-why-they-should-stop

            I don’t know if all Mikovits claims are true, but l got a distinct whiff of “hit piece” of that Sciencemag article all in all.

          1. Rosette of Sirius

            And never forget a vote for the Shinners is a vote for Pedophilia. By that logic.

          2. GiggidyGoo

            I take it then that you’re not following the Grace case Rosette.

            Put these three words into google. Grace Noonan Waterford. A vote for who is a vote for what you say?

  5. f_lawless

    We need to stop faffing about with opt-in track and trace apps and move to the next level like they’re doing in Asia. .. Anyway Irish people have shown they can’t be trusted to observe social distancing rules .Idiots. Something like this will help keep us safe..It’s coming sooner or later, better to bring it in now and save more lives!

    Plus, it’s bound to be useful during non-pandemic times. A no-brainer, I think

    https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/robot-reminds-visitors-about-safe-distancing-measures-in-bishan-ang-mo-kio-park

  6. jamesjoist

    24 degrees on the 9th of May. What’s it going to be like in the Summer ?

  7. Ringsend Incinerator

    It’s like the good old days of summers past (70s) – whacking flies, wasps, and bluebottles inside the kitchen all fuppin’ day with dem windows open…

  8. jamesjoist

    I’m sitting in my front garden , tiny , enjoying an ice cold glass of Chardonnay and judging by the aromas wafting about , the whole of Ireland must smell like one giant barbecue!

    1. Steph Pinker

      So, no thunder or dark skies where you are, James?

      Lucky Dubs, you always get the best weather :(

      1. jamesjoist

        I am actually a Dub , whom , the receding tides of marriage, left washed up in Kildare . I take it , giving the talk of thunder , you are a Munster man , going by the weather forecast and not the well known oratory skills of Munster men .

      2. Clampers Outside

        Near 40 mins of great sounding thunder here in Waterford… Yet, to see rain though :)

        1. GiggidyGoo

          Not a clap in Wexford. That new bridge in New Ross must be keeping it at bay.

  9. SOQ

    RTÉ plans star-studded telethon coronavirus fundraiser- which coronavirus were are thinking of you socially spaced Donnybrook Dahrlings?

    1. jamesjoist

      I’d say this came out of one of their “brain storming ” sessions, ” listen lads, why not do a star studded fund raiser , we’ll get Daniel O’ Donnell and Mary Black, and lots of other people well known to the over 65’s (our target audience) what do yis think ? Will we give it a go?

    2. V

      They’re desperate for programming
      And their contract slebs are desperate for billable hours and are probably demanding delivery of promised minimum contracts

      No Sport No Rose No Ploughing
      No OBs
      No Soap Omnibuses
      No Dáil, No Festivals, Concerts or Fillums to promote

      Bailout
      In the 100 mill plus region any day now

      BTW – Since the Election and Lockdown
      Three new directors appointed By the Minister on the board
      Acting Minister btw

      And no, I didn’t make the cut
      Again

  10. GiggidyGoo

    RTE really going for it now. A telethon, no less. To lift the nation’s spirits how do. Not an original thought though, as they want to model it on the BBC’s.
    To raise €30m for frontline workers is the byline. Really? People that have lost their jobs, or who have become temporarily unemployed will throw bucketloads of dosh at it for the vague promise that it will ‘go to frontline workers’
    How would it ‘go’ to them? Would it be taxed? Or would it ‘go’ to private businesses to supply PPE equipment which the State should be supplying?
    ========
    Plus it will be ‘star studded’. Shudder!
    https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/could-lift-the-nations-spirits-rte-plans-star-studded-telethon-coronavirus-fundraiser-39193511.html

      1. GiggidyGoo

        It’s nothing short of a scandal. And there are boyos lining up to tell us all sorts of cuddly facts – flattening the curve, reached the peak, a few less in ICU beds, a few less dead, and made to sound as that a great job is being done.

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