This morning.
Dublin Castle, Dublin 2.
Arriving for a Covid cabinet meeting to decide on NPHET recommendations were from top: Taoiseach Micheál Martin. Tanaiste Leo Varadkar and Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan.
Meanwhile, this afternoon
Via RTE
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has announced the latest Covid-19 restrictions saying there will be a delay to indoor hospitality beyond the planned 5 July date.
Mr Martin said that the reopening of indoor hospitality will be limited to those fully vaccinated or recovered from Covid-19 infection
Mr Martin said that last night the Government was advised in very stark terms by public health officials that there is a real risk of spreading virus if reopening continues as planned on 5 July.
He said the Government has agreed to delay some elements of further reopenings.
The Taoiseach said the Government will find a workable approach and know the delay will be greeted by “dismay and frustration”, but the Government will provide additional supports in the coming weeks.
Taoiseach announces delay to indoor hospitality beyond 5 July (RTÉ)
Earlier: Needles To Say
Meanwhile…
Restaurants and bars in Northern Ireland are brilliant. Staff and customers not overly afraid of getting a cold.
Routes out of this for ROI:
1) peaceful non-compliance
2) no compromise with the extremists and fanatics in NPHET, media and government.#disbandNphet #Nuremberg2 pic.twitter.com/XezjKHnJMY— Graham Neary (@GrahamNeary) June 29, 2021
Great headline
Not so great situation – limiting dining to those vaccinated or recovered from covid.. unless youre in a hotel of course
Who doesn’t love an aul Chuck Norris reference ;)
+1 Hahaha! Really good
Ah, good old Ireland.
Chucking the young under the bus yet again.
The young won’t be able to get enjoy any of the entertainment venues or services, but they’ll be able to serve the vaccinated class like good little serfs.
Ignore this. Stop following restrictions. Don’t patronise places that enforce these crazy rules.
We are being left behind.
Always Paddy Last.
Crazier and crazier every day Micko, really hard to believe the poopshow these guys are running.
Oh lord. The logistics of actually enforcing this system:)) And we thought the 9 euro ‘substantial meal’ was the nadir…
What’s going to be REALLY funny in the next while is that restaurants will of course have a mix of outdoor and indoor dining.
The stink that will be brought up by the vaccinated giving out that want to eat indoors to virtue signal that they have been jabbed will be hilarious!
“I want to dine indoors”
“I’m afraid we’re fully booked indoors madam. We have a table outside”
“But, I can’t sit outside! How will everyone know I’m vaccinated? People will think I’m an anti-vaxer if I sit out here” :-)
The clownshow is gonna be fun…
I think perhaps it would be wise to review what Professor Tim Spector has identified as the top five symptoms of the Delta variant- I very much doubt if these morons ever even considered such.
Headache
Runny nose
Sore Throat
Aches and pains
Fever
The other part of this island is living walking proof that these measures are not required- something that no vaccine bluff and guff is going to conceal- this is an absolutely shocking abuse of power.
What would they have to gain from keeping businesses from opening?
“Never ascribe to malice, that which can more easily be explained by incompetence.”
This is 2 political parties who are leaking support year after year and are paralysed with fear that their actions will lose more votes, and cannot see that it is inaction that’s affecting their popularity.
Christmas was ill-advised, but in reality it was people who took the piss with UK returnees not quarantining, big family gatherings etc. We mixed with 4 other households on Christmas eve, had a visit from a 5th on Christmas Day, and then visited another household Christmas day. All indoors with the windows closed and inadequate distancing.
Go on about your business like everyone else. Have bbqs and parties in Gardens, support your local businesses as best you can, and use your vote like everyone else.
Christmas was ill-advised.
No, NPHET advised against opening up so much for Christmas. They were overruled. We saw the results.
Yeah sorry.
We have vaccines now to protect the vulnerable. We didn’t have that at Christmas.
Otherwise, what’s the point of the vaccines? – We may as well stay locked down forever.
People gathering and mixing indoors during December was incredibly dumb, and a guaranteed virus transmission event.
People gathering and mixing indoors and outdoors in the summer, with better ventilation possible and close to 50% of the population vaccinated should be far more safe, and not super spreader events. We need to learn how to live with the virus and variants in a further vaccinated society.
One word. Seasonal.
Without respiratory distress, this looks a lot like a Rhinovirus, a so-called “Summer Cold” from infection by a virus that’s entirely different but almost as common as Coronaviruses are. Without the respiratory problems, Pneumonia, Covid-19 in other words, can’t develop. This Variants nonsense is turning a joke into a farce. Many endemic Coronaviruses have multiple variants, 29 in one case, others have only 3 or 4 but nobody was cataloguing them or counting them & nobody even dreamed of actually naming them, any scientist who did so would’ve been declared an eccentric, at best.
#Nuremberg2?
Electric Boogaloo?
Tweet from Michael McNamara TD
The latest proposals from NPHET to restrict indoor hospitality to the vaccinated only are practically unworkable, legally dubious, and contrary to a decision already made by a democratically elected government. Who is in charge?
https://twitter.com/MlMcNamaraTD/status/1409832407771926528
The ‘who is in charge’ is another reminder of the laboratory that gets millions of our euros, the director of which is Director Dr Cillian De Gascun, who is chair of the Covid-19 Expert Advisory Group to NPHET.
well well well
Varadker busy with the motor mouth again, the magic term “Herd Immunity” finally at long last rearing its head…
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ireland-might-demand-vaccine-drink-inside-pubs-restaurants-2021-06-29/
so we have this threat of some sort of crazy unworkable C19 vaccination apartheid system, big data, apps n barcodes. threats of not being able to ever open up properly until “Herd Immunity” is achieved?
you can see where this is going, can’t you?
I think it is going towards a high level of vaccination.
Well that doesn’t surprise me.
George here is a fella who just never quite got Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Mad enterained by shadows this one…
How come the government get such an easy ride in all this? They’re totally free to ignore NPHET’s advice yet all anyone ever talks about is “fascist” NPHET
I’m sure I’ve said this before but, was there ever a leader more impotent than that limp handshake of a human, Mícheál Martin?
He strikes me as someone who not only would give you a limp handshake, but the fingers would be damp and sweaty too. ::shudder::
that’s from spending most of his time scratching his damp hole contentedly
Bleurghh!
if only they took the fiscal advisory councils advice as seriously as they do NPHETs.