From top: Croke Park; Stephen Donnelly
“What we had is agreement on a 50% capacity, so about 40,000 people be they vaccinated or unvaccinated. Sixty thousand people fully vaccinated in my view is probably a lower risk than 40,000 people.
“Remember 90% of the adult population is already vaccinated. So if you had an adult population in Croke Park regardless the vast, vast majority in there are fully vaccinated anyway.
“I was talking to Minister Jack Chambers about it and they spend a lot of time working with the sports organisations on whether or not the events themselves are causing outbreaks.
“Interestingly the events are very well run and there isn’t a lot of data suggesting there are super spreader events from the stadiums.
“When you talk to the local testing teams what they find is back in the counties [involved] they begin to see outbreaks because people are going to watch the match in pubs or in people’s houses.”
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland
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Minister says extra capacity for All-Ireland football final ‘unlikely’ (RTÉ)
Ha. The GAA club championships games that were on last year were super-duper-spreaders.
Govt obsessed with pubs, gaa and mass. Nothing else exists.
I just cannot get it
As the numbers are climbing hump to dumpty is reopening the economy and all the holiday makers swanning back after being god knows where but in Ireland it was unsafe to eat in a pub or go to a concert
I distinctly believe they are being told what to do by our new masters