Strongest signal yet that pubs won’t reopen. Tanaiste @LeoVaradkar says NPHET is advising Gov take a “cautious approach” Says: “I know what will come as a further blow to some of the sectors that can’t be reopened. But we just cant risk moving backward or risk schools reopening.” pic.twitter.com/5CFzyoWFNu
— Mary Regan (@MaryERegan) August 4, 2020
Looks like the former Taoiseach has scooped his successor to more or less confirm the pubs aren’t reopening next week https://t.co/OfJ82OFE1f
— Hugh O'Connell (@oconnellhugh) August 4, 2020
Oh.
This evening.
UPDATE:
BREAKING – Phase 4 Ireland: Pubs will not reopen next Monday
https://t.co/OF7ECOVDGN— Kevin Doyle (@KevDoyle_Indo) August 4, 2020
No scoops for you.
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Attention: Are you a pub owner? Now is your chance to go back to school and get a Leaving Cert
Was in Carlingford of an afternoon at the weekend. Obviously hens and stags knocking around- one particularly striking group of about 13-14 ‘lads’. Apparently they had gone buck mad in the couple of pubs that were open the night before then, back to their various airbnbs for an all-nighter and then merrily returned to their respective homes all over the country on Monday.
Against that backdrop- and I’m sure its the tip of the iceberg- some of these government policy pronouncements around effective Covid 19 suppression are assuming Kim Jong Un levels of delusion.
The new FFG logo. https://www.politicalirish.com/attachments/24de8579-7ff6-4361-aa85-7f77731b29c3-jpeg.10434/
would explain a lot if politicalirish is a haunt of yours
Are you familiar with that website then?
Man yells at other posters calls them childish, compares to Loch Ness monsters etc
Next day posts pictures a 12 year old adolescent would be ashamed to be seen near
Honestly …
Sorry if you’re ashamed to be near it. Never mind, school will be open in a couple of weeks and you can return there to 6th class this year.
Unsurprising the pubs are not reopening, unsurprising Varadkar leaked the news via the fine Gael rag the ironically titled The Independent. What’s that noise in the background?…. Thats the sound of FF hissy fits as Varadkar once again pulls one on Mehole Martin and shows who is in charge of the joke coalition!
I can’t believe I’m saying this but Leo is correct.
Fighting for your right to go out and make a fool of yourself is one thing.
Bring a virus home and making your Grandmother fight for her life is another.
If you arent careful you won’t be getting a present this Christmas.
And what percentage of young people live with their grandmother eh?
34
Wheres the Taoiseach? Weak…
he’d have to get up very early in the morning to beat Leo to the cameras, very early in the morning
I love this, a Fr Ted quote and an unfortunate one from Leo’s old welfare hating slogan
@Janet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Al107Xebw
:) :)
Perhaps they like to send Leo for these things given that he is a doctor.
a grand stretch altogether
haha, spin doctor
Mickey Martin needs to up his game. Perhaps he’ll go back and put in a few voluntary hours in the classroom as a teacher. Along with several others…
tbf, Varadkar & co basically got to avoid giving people all the wholly unpopular news that Martin et al have had to be the face of since the new government came in so I feel this was probably assigned to him with that in mind
Easy fix for this and many pubs are already doing similar, which is to get food in from a local takeaway or buy crackers, cheese and cold meats and the likes and provide food that doesn’t require heating to customers
Why all pubs aren’t already doing this baffles me
What do Hotel residents do at the minute – drink carry outs in their rooms? Or are hotel residents allowed in the bar, just not walk-ins?
sure they always do that
They’re allowed in the bar to eat food and have a couple of drinks, same as everywhere else.
NOT TRUE- I know several people who were sent to their room with a tray recently.
They were northern Protestants mind- so assumed asylum seekers probably.
Doctors write prescriptions and fight sickness
Politicians rewrite history and fight to be re-elected.
Broadsheet Commentors fight science and write rubbish.
It’s like the Bermuda Triangle all over again…
Doctors write prescriptions- in Ireland- mainly for profit.
€50-60 every ten minute pop and whatever the pharmacist is having themselves.
there are plenty of GPs and pharmacists who care about more than profit
you can’t tar them all with the same brush
True. I know loads who care more about trying to get elected…. O’Connell, McDaid, Reilly ….
oh but of course
Where is the pretend English fella today?
We just spanked England in the cricket
licking his wounds, no doubt
I know one pub down the sticks that’s completely ignoring this. Packed to the rafters every night, no social distancing, no food. Didn’t have much trade pre-Covid so making hay now. People coming from far and wide. Cops have been in several times and cleared the premises but business resumes the following day. Luckily there hasn’t been an outbreak in the area so far.
Well believe it
Animals would have more sense