On the day we surpassed 3,000 Covid deaths these people were arriving home from Lanzarote with a fresh tan #rtept @ConorMcMorrow pic.twitter.com/EMLjeNgviz
— Elaine Loughlin (@Elaine_Loughlin) January 26, 2021
Last night.
Cruel sun holiday-shaming on RTÉ 1’s Prime Time.
Meanwhile…
The proposals by Government on travel are totally half-baked. We are going to have to put in stronger measures as the numbers come down in order to suppress this virus. – @alankellylabour #RTEPT pic.twitter.com/AA6IJFjrij
— The Labour Party (@labour) January 26, 2021
Ooh. He’s so ‘ard.
Previously: Come Out You’re Back And Tanned
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Pathetic holiday shaming – if this people had a negative test prior to travelling back to the country then they have done nothing wrong.
It really is curtain twitching taken to its extreme, with the national broadcaster facilitating.
Yeah but do you truly trust them to have tested themselves and isolated on arrival? Are their holidays really necessary at a time like this? We’re a nation of selfish corner-cutters with an “ah sure it’ll be grand” attitude to everything; I don’t trust my fellow Irishman as far as I could throw him.
People going to Lanzerote are thumbing their noses at the rest of us making sacrifices every day. Have a walk through any park and you’re expected to get out of the way for every other group who walks five-abreast along the footpath. We can’t be trusted to manage ourselves.
They’ve travelled several thousand kilometres for a non-essential journey at a time when there is a 5km restriction on non-essential travel.
And wilynosing the mask does not instill confidence.
Also when Alan Kelly says something, expect the public to think the opposite.
Professional political journalist Elaine Loughlin there.
Yup… professional.
Nice cardigan!
There’s a lesson there.
Always try to look your best, even if you’re only putting the bins out, you never know who you’ll bump into.
That, and keeping the downstairs loo clean just in case The Queen drops by.
Funnily enough, that’s Lady Bertie’s nickname for my mother:)
https://i.imgur.com/tWd2NFS.jpg
So true Bertie
a philosophy echoed by my mother’s insistence that underwear should be changed daily in case i had to go to hospital in an emergency.
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Maybe she holds out hope you’ll be granted a surprise ride
haha! +1
These people arent breaking any laws, most may be away since before Jan when the government greenlit a Christmas party for everyone. Either COVID is serious or it’s not, if it is, stop letting people into the country without a negative test, and when they do come in ensure they are monitored. The government is incapable of providing a consistent message and doing what needs to be done, instead, they dance around the issues and blame everybody else. New Zeland was able to organize themselves well enough to allow people to attend a festival https://djmag.com/news/thousands-attend-music-festivals-and-events-new-zealand
Yeah , that festival in NZ was only artists from NZ. Rhythm and Vine, the Six60 show last weekend – all NZ artists.
Try getting any international artist travelling over the next while.
Take Longitude for example – booked for this July. If ANYONE from say, Kendrick Lamar’s team gets a positive result days before they travel the whole show is ruined. Main headliner – gone
I know that the high end sport professionals are using a bubble system. Everyone in the bubble gets privately tested before they travel – with a fast turn around time and then they stay in that bubble of 10 or so people. But for music – with a live audience. No way.
I can’t see any touring band going out for a long time. Too many crew to be tested and the whole close contacts thing is a nightmare.
We’ve really painted ourselves into a corner with the arts. Never mind the insurance companies are taking the pee.
“We’ve really painted ourselves into a corner”
nail on the head Micko
I used to live in NZ and they had trouble getting international artists there in normal times. So pretty normal there.
Incorrect. Non-essential travel abroad was not allowed during December either.
Is”totally half-baked” an oxymoron?
I bet the Lanzarote crew weren’t half baked….though at this time of year?
who knows what anymore, who knows if any/all/none of these people are carrying the plague, all a mixed bag of people who take C19 seriously and those who don’t take C19 seriously. this Lanzagrotty crowd? sure they’re only playing by the rulebook they’ve been given, there’s no point shaking fists at them ffs.
up to now we’ve adopted the typically Irish self-regulation approach to the problem and we wonder why the whole scenario is out of control?? check your history, lol, we aren’t good at self-regulation are we?
yesterday I took a wee detour and stopped mid-journey for a break, I’d been told there was this interesting new coffee shack down on Killiney beach so I thought I’d check it out. twas a fine large yoke altogether, coffee and food being served by 3 professional looking lads out of a streamliner type caravan you’d see at EP. the problem? half of South County Dublin were down there on the beach too, milling around the ‘van, rings of 6-8 adults laughing and chattin and enjoying themselves and not a mask (or a metre) between any of them, like those scenes a couple of months back on Clarendon/Sth William. no masks no nothing.
I left empty handed
there’s no fupping way C19 wasn’t down on that beach yesterday
we clearly can’t be trusted to manage ourselves
“. yesterday I took a wee detour and stopped mid-journey for a break“
Oooooh, I hope you were within the 5K of your home?
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Only joking, I don’t actually care, it’s a BS rule anyway. :)
But, you can see how people jump to condemn others.
How about everyone mind their own business
This is Tabloid News folks
The airports have been open
Planes have been flying
People still have statutory holiday entitlements in a lockdown
If there is a Public Health risk
or an Airline Safely risk
there are plenty other tools and regulations to manage that
Not this gotcha stuff
If ye must, ask why Airports / PoE weren’t shut last March to Lads from Italy before ye start picking on people landing from Sunnier places now
Savage Header tho’ Hon Bodger
Yes ultimately it’s the authorities who should take the blame for not restricting travel. People will always try what they are legally allowed to do.
There is a word for “people like this” but Broadsheet would turn it into something ridiculous if I use it.
These people benefit from everyone else obeying the rules but selfishly broke them themselves for their own pleasure. Awful behaviour.
“Statutory holiday entitlements” have nothing to do with going abroad. That argument is pseudo legal gibberish of the kind that John Waters and Gemtrails would use.
”statutory holiday entitlements” – is it statutory that they go abroad too, what utter nonsense. Tellingly yer man can’t even figure out his mask is supposed to cover his nose and we’re supposed to trust that he’s not incubating the virus, it’s risky and it’s selfish, is a holiday ”essential travel’? of course not.
Hey lads
all of ye
none’ah my business where people take their holidays
Just saying that Annual Leave hasn’t been suspended or cancelled like a Concert Tour n’ stuff
On the one hand you are saying the Ireland should have banned flights from Italy last March, but on the other hand people should allowed go wherever they like with their holiday days; you are coming across as a little inconsistent.
Didn’t say they SHOULD be allowed go
They are – there are flights taking off and landing with people on them
People that have booked and paid for the seat, and presented passports
not people on the run or anything
If Ireland was sincere about Lock down as being the way to manage the Pandemic nationally
Then the public airports should have been closed to commercial cargo travel & internal maintenance & training flights only
same for the Ports
State and official travel like Coveney swanning around, can be managed from Baldonell and other private strips
Picking on people for going about their own business is shabby
Not saying I agree with what the travellers and holiday makers are doing
Just saying that cribbing about them is curtain twitching
In fairness, if this was foot & mouth, the Dept of Ag would have had all that sorted 12 months ago
Flights are allowed for essential travel not for non-essential travel. So no they’re not allowed.
“None of your business” you say to others but also you think it is your business whether people should be allowed to fly. Nonsense.
allowed or advised
RTÉ Prime Time crew camped out in DUB waiting for a flight from Lanzarote to arrive to back up new government restrictions.
Not contrived or planned in anyway.
Any flights or passengers arriving from London?
People should
be shamed
for this kind of
carry on
in a pandemic
They’re not poor
innocent babes who
were found among the reeds
in wicker baskets
They’re grown adults
capable of having some cop-on
who just don’t give
a toss
statutory holiday entitlements
going overseas
in a global pandemic
are you having a laugh?
Kevin Higgins?
Moses?
Decent player, suffered badly with injuries
Remi? Victor?
Ended up a complete basket case …
Yes,no,listen … oh suit yourselves.
Remi
Remember really rating him when I was a kid, even if he was a United player
I was thinking david…
I wish I lived within 5km of Dublin airport
no you don’t, my folks are under a landing flight path, pretty noisy
I don’t even hear them anymore… ;)
When I lived in Kensington you could set your watch to the first red-eye flying in from the States.
But you’re right, after a while it was just white noise.
My issue with last nights show was the piece on the hospital infections.
Be grand to have no infections, but when at one stage hundreds of nurses were off due to testing positive or self isolation, the staff remaining are doing long hours and are worn out.
Just smacked of hammering the already hammered by people who were themselves not adhering to the regulations by having staff get togethers
Whatever about these copulators bringing nasty bugs home, they’re also bringing possible infection from a heavily-infected country to the relatively impoverished Canary Islands. Not nice at all.
My neighbour went to Landzarote for Christmas and within days of arrival home ended up in intensive care with covid. Still in hospital at UHL. Am I disappointed in him? —‘ I certainly am!
I rather like the barreness of Lanzarote.
Away from the Cor Blimeys it’s really rather beautiful.
Lady Charger and I once found a wonderful restaurant on an isolated beach looking up towards some majestic hills with an original César Manrique insallation on the wall and sublime seafood.I think we managed one of our special five hour lunches but by jove it was a hairy drive back.Thank goodness the roads were empty.
Have you been ?
I haven’t, Charger but sounds nice!
Schizophrenia is a strange affliction, isn’t it? They don’t even go on holidays together.
It is Kate.
It’s very windy a lot of the time given its position out in the ocean but it has shaken off its old Lanzagrotty reputation and like any tourist spot once you venture forth away from the crowds there are pleasant rewards to be found.
A great wintering spot.