Backbench revolt against ‘lockdown by stealth’ appears to grow following shock Nphet advice https://t.co/xA7QhApHM8 via @IrishTimesPol
— Irish Times Politics (@IrishTimesPol) December 17, 2021
This morning.
Via Irish Times:
Several high-ranking sources said that the Nphet advice had been sprung on the Government, with no indications at a meeting on Tuesday between the Coalition leaders and senior Nphet officials that such a draconian stance would be taken.
Senior sources said that the proposed 5pm closing time could be extended until 9 or 10pm, but stressed that this would depend on the discussions between the party leaders this morning and the decision of the Cabinet when it meets later in the afternoon.
Several people involved in discussions on the issue in Government said that the Nphet proposals amounted to an effective lockdown of the hospitality industry. “This is a lockdown by stealth,” one said.
Earlier: “It Would Be Closure For Many”
Meanwhile…
If NPHET are really saying that 2 double vaccinated and boosted people can’t have a pizza and a pint after 5pm then I give up
— Regina Doherty (@ReginaDo) December 17, 2021
Meanwhile…
How to manipulate a halfwit society. 1: Convince people they are to blame & ignore the fact Govt didn't insulate ICU. 2: Leak a lockdown in the media. 3: Relax what was initially leaked to what the real restriction is & make people believe this is a compromise lol 😂🤡 #NPHET pic.twitter.com/UZc6WjV2fJ
— Politics Watch (@PoliticsWatch14) December 17, 2021
Yup.
I love Tony. Unflappable. Consistent. Resolute. Data-driven.
We need him for President.
Just look at the other numpties wetting themselves every time an opinion poll comes out or they get a WhatsApp message from a publican.
GWAN the TONY!
you forgot zero integrity or accountability, actually you are right perfect Irish politician
He is beyond reproach.
how do you manage to type with your tongue so far up his hoop
charger probably very experienced in that matter
Gwan Janet, you love him too. We can feel that tension.
If only there was a journalist of integrity to ask what difference everything closing at 9 instead of 11 will actually make? If only.
Even a hack without integrity questioning Holohan live on TV would be nice at this stage.
Mehole being put through the grinder by a ferocious interviewer would be good for democracy as well.
But neither of these things will ever happen because the Irish public have long since accepted unaccountability as the norm in public life.
Can’t see a young Vinnie Browne anywhere can you?
having an irish username doesn’t disguise your innate charger-ness, charger.
Ah, but he’s terribly lonely without us, the poor lamb.
As soon as we saw Israel rolling our booster we should have been on it – unprepared again… no planning…
Wear an ffp2/3 mask, use Hepa filters indoors, create ventilation certs for indoor venues, get boosted if you can, and demand that your local elected officials push for everybody coming into the country (even from the north) requires a negative PCR within 24 hour of their arrival – nothing will change without this, everything else is magical or conspiratorial thinking…
Happy/miserable Friday…
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You make info_warless seem sane and… even thoughtful…
Also, nothing will change…
Why are you so worried about Omicron?
Perfectly orchestrated – as we all predicted.
NPHET start with a low offer of 5pm
Faux outrage from cabinet, who respond with a counter offer of 9
Both sides decide to compromise on 8pm closing – but the situation will be spun to paint NPHET as bad guys and govt as saviours who were “fighting our case”.
So predictable, it happens every time. And yet the braindead public will still lap it up as some kind of “win”.
A win? Lol. A win would be hours unchanged or even extended to normal. Further restrictions are not a win.
I didn’t see your post before adding my own.
1,000% correct sir!!!
I love that you can iterally call anything perfectly orchestrated no matter how fractious and chaotic it is, even though it’s obviously nonsense.
No, they called it correctly. You’re being duplicitous. There is no chaos.
No, you just believe, based on absolutely sweet f all, that the chaos is fake, despite it making no sense on any level below pure fantasy.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/contact/
I’m beginning to think you don’t actually know what ‘lying’ is, which might explain a lot.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/contact/
Try it sometime.
“Chaos”, yet we’ve seen this very scene unfold several times in the past.
Not very chaotic that, is it? That things have unfolded near identical each time – I’d say thats the very opposite of chaos.
The conspiraloons predicted demoralising new restrictions arriving just in time for Christmas. Last year, they shut everything at lunchtime on Christmas Eve, at short notice. We stayed in lockdown for the next 5 months. This year, they’re continuing their attack on Ireland’s pub culture whilst giving the general population a nice little demoraliser, again in time for Christmas. We keep predicting this like clockwork. Not with crystal balls but simply because it is all so very predictable and following a very clear and obvious agenda. You’re still in your innocent state of denial. Do you want to know what comes after Christmas?
Actually you’re right ‘chaos’ is too strong – but the fact that the government manages to make a sheer muddle of things isn’t proof of anything other than it’s a government that really wants things to get back to normal and the pandemic to go away.
‘We keep predicting this like clockwork.’
So do non-conspiraloons just pointing out the basic facts of the pandemic.
And with the whole country obsessing over 5pm, 8pm, 9pm .. they once again have us all distracted, not looking where they don’t want us to look. Not questioning what needs to be fundamentally questioned – like, what’s their way out of this restriction kabuki theatre now, since their last way – the jabs – are proven worthless in “ending lockdown”?
Non-compliance. It was always the only option.
Distracted by them making utter fools of themselves. Truly, they are Machiavellian geniuses.
NPHET say 5 and are baddies, government “compromise” at 9 or 10 and are goodies.
This is the contempt these vile individuals have for Joe Public.
They are treating us like fools.
NPHET and the government are the same thing, theres no disparity here.
Anyone who believes these restrictions are for our health is a member of a cult.
“Anyone who believes these restrictions are for our health is a member of a cult.” Yes, a very big cult unfortunately.
Regina Doherty playing the old trick of pretending she’s a member of the opposition.
Regina Doherty who was voted out at the last election, but subsequently appointed to the Seanad on the Taoiseach’s nomination. Despite the same Regina Doherty calling for its abolition in the 2013 referendum.
Hypocrite.
Anthony Holohan same initials as Adolf Hitler, both of them in charge of authoritarian groups with names beginning with an N.
We’re through the looking glass here people.
Regina “any soundbite if it helps me get my seat back” Doherty
LOL