This morning.
O’Connell Bridge, Dublin 1.
Gardai checking that motorists are compliant with Level 5 restrictions, and not making unnecessary journeys.
Take that, rona.
Leah Farrell/RollingNews
Meanwhile…
This morning.
UK’s Talk Radio
Leandra Ashton, who was arrested after taking her mother from a care home before England entered a second lockdown, speaks to Julia Hartley-Brewer.
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It will be dropped just in time for the Christmas surge the taxes will be collected then lockdown january
France collected 650,000 in fines this week
Took a trip to Maynooth last Saturday for valid reasons (wife needed something from College) and there was a checkpoint on the M4 between Celbridge and Maynooth exits going towards Maynooth (around 3.30PM).
There was a holding van and maybe 10-12 empty cars on the side of the road and no sign of drivers (I presume they were in the holding van?).
They barely even looked at us, not even for tax and insurance, just waved us through. Very odd I must say, what exactly where they looking for?
Overtime.
They must miss the free entrance to GAA, soccer and rugby matches I guess?
It and be seen fro be doing something
Covid 19 the biggest earner ever for the public sector
I saw that too and thought all those cars were belonging to the gardai themselves? Free work parking!
Ausweiss bitte!
More like checking their motor tax.
Funny enough I went through ten so far this week and the eyes were on where you display your discs
Everyone enjoying their free trial of a police state?
lidtened to that poor lady this morning
It’s inhumaine
Just walk in these peoples shoes and you will beg for release
Why can they just not let them have human touch and if the family wear ppe or a hamza suit the inmate or resident will not be at much worse risk
These are not cans of beans but humans with feelings not to be held in solitary confinement denied love
David ?
Covid cares nothing about Christmas
All it cares about is spreading and if we just drop our guard then covid will be in like a shot
If we open up for Christmas covid will spread
It’s better to just lock down totally like New Zealand and do exactly what they did
We can do what mainland Europe cannot
We are an island like New Zealand which now have returned to normality
It’s a no brainer
but muh freedumbs!!!
@Len
New Zealand along with Australia is in the top five self-sufficient food producers in the world.
New Zealand has a tourism sector worth over 40 Billion annually – 23 billion of which is domestic.
They could lockdown indefinitely and not even break a sweat.
Ireland is NOT the same as these countries.
@Daisy – please stop calling people stupid just because you don’t agree with them. People like you are the problem.
No country could lockdown fully for any length of time in this day and age.
Too many external components for all manner of industries, from chemicals for food production and farming, to construction and many more for anywhere, but especially an island like NZ to go for too long. They might get away with 6 or even 12 months but eventually stocks of medicines and similar will go out of date and the ingredient stocks will run dry etc.
Globalism is a double edged sword.
Don’t think that New Zealand ever stopped freight coming into their country?
Wasn’t that what they said got them into trouble after the “100 days success” – the virus was brought in by air freight.
They were only concerned with stopping their people moving about. Which is why I gave food and tourism as examples.
I suppose you could keep all crew on their ships for that, be tough on them though? Although do they even get off at each port or just drop off and go, not really that up to speed on how it all works?
Ireland produces enough food to feed 65 million people a year.
And yet we don’t make the top ten self sufficient.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_self-sufficiency_rate
That’ll tell ya how important our exports are. And we want countries and ourselves to close our borders.
Madness
I don’t have details for New Zealand, but its southern hemisphere neighbours spent 112 days in lockdown. It’s spring, that time of year when seasonal respiratory diseases decline.
If we’re to attempt that, we’ll need to be in lockdown until Feb/March or so. Given our mortality rate is in line with previous years, any further lockdown will do more harm than good.
I can see them keeping the numbers low over summer, as respiratory diseases are low in summer, but then what? No oversees travel without 14 days detention?
No-brainer? I’d rather look closer to home. Sweden perhaps.
seriously david, learn to use a full stop will you?
There cannot be too many cars heading south.. odd choice
I was stopped last weekend and asked what was the purpose of my journey. The guard was pleasant and didn’t enquire whether I was within 5km of my home. So, a brief encounter but surreal nonetheless.
Why is BS regularly citing JHB or her show as a source of intelligent comment? She’s the journalistic equivalent of damp whopee cushion.