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[Duff Paddy]

I'd rather be shot than spend my evening there in normal circumstances.

Grumpy old fucker

I'm all for a rake of pints and talking absolute nonsense with my friends, but the barman dancing around standing on the bar while feeding shots to customers while everyone screams out Mr Brightside? Yeah, nah. Is this Coyote Ugly?
Maybe when I was 20, and only because I'd have been too buckled to be a curmudgeon.

It’s a baked brunch for people rolling over from a big Saturday night out you need to loosen up old man

[EnergiseR]

Exactly Duff. Baked bitches just having a straight up clobber rave

[Nols]

Grumpy old fucker

I'm all for a rake of pints and talking absolute nonsense with my friends, but the barman dancing around standing on the bar while feeding shots to customers while everyone screams out Mr Brightside? Yeah, nah. Is this Coyote Ugly?
Maybe when I was 20, and only because I'd have been too buckled to be a curmudgeon.

It’s a baked brunch for people rolling over from a big Saturday night out you need to loosen up old man

I hate everyone.

[Hong Kong]

Nice and all but that's the Hofskirkja church in Iceland.

Damn. I was reliably informed that it was Ireland

[CM11]

Has Duff had a mid life crisis and reinvented himself as a 20 year old? Calling others grumpy and old?!

[anonymous_joe]

I'd rather be shot than spend my evening there in normal circumstances.

Grumpy old fucker

I'm all for a rake of pints and talking absolute nonsense with my friends, but the barman dancing around standing on the bar while feeding shots to customers while everyone screams out Mr Brightside? Yeah, nah. Is this Coyote Ugly?
Maybe when I was 20, and only because I'd have been too buckled to be a curmudgeon.

Berlin was alright when it started out.

It then went through a weird phase of being a really shit rap venue.

Now it seems to have gone down the influencer, insta brigade road.

It's real benefit is it's one of the few places you can mill about outside not listening to shit music in that part of town. Plus, given where it's located it's an easy place to get drugs, which for the younger folk is a big deal.

[Nols]

Influencer/Insta crowd?

[Duff Paddy]

Has Duff had a mid life crisis and reinvented himself as a 20 year old? Calling others grumpy and old?!

Whoosh

[CM11]

Has Duff had a mid life crisis and reinvented himself as a 20 year old? Calling others grumpy and old?!

Whoosh

Phew......

[The sun god]

Just catching up with the weekend news from home and I come across Michael Cawley's misadventures in Italy and the subsequent fallout.
There was a massive amount of 'Ryanair' hubris attached to his decision to holiday abroad in the middle of a national emergency while holding the chair of our national tourist agency but it does also highlight the utter pointlessness of bestowing these 'chairmanships' on multi-millionaire captains of industry, in the first place.
The fact he was in the job for 6 years says to me that, internally, he didn't really piss on too many peoples cornflakes during his tenure and obviously lost sight of what his purpose was in his role at Fáilte Ireland.

anyway, it wont effect the quality of claret he washed his dinner down with last night...!!

[anonymous_joe]

Just catching up with the weekend news from home and I come across Michael Cawley's misadventures in Italy and the subsequent fallout.
There was a massive amount of 'Ryanair' hubris attached to his decision to holiday abroad in the middle of a national emergency while holding the chair of our national tourist agency but it does also highlight the utter pointlessness of bestowing these 'chairmanships' on multi-millionaire captains of industry, in the first place.
The fact he was in the job for 6 years says to me that, internally, he didn't really piss on too many peoples cornflakes during his tenure and obviously lost sight of what his purpose was in his role at Fáilte Ireland.

anyway, it wont effect the quality of claret he washed his dinner down with last night...!!

€20k a year for being the chairman. Surely that would hit your wine budget reasonably hard?

I think having the senior bods of Fáilte Ireland being former Ryanair, etc, makes a degree of sense in normal times. Ryanair have done a hell of a lot to revolutionise tourism.

[The sun god]

Just catching up with the weekend news from home and I come across Michael Cawley's misadventures in Italy and the subsequent fallout.
There was a massive amount of 'Ryanair' hubris attached to his decision to holiday abroad in the middle of a national emergency while holding the chair of our national tourist agency but it does also highlight the utter pointlessness of bestowing these 'chairmanships' on multi-millionaire captains of industry, in the first place.
The fact he was in the job for 6 years says to me that, internally, he didn't really piss on too many peoples cornflakes during his tenure and obviously lost sight of what his purpose was in his role at Fáilte Ireland.

anyway, it wont effect the quality of claret he washed his dinner down with last night...!!

€20k a year for being the chairman. Surely that would hit your wine budget reasonably hard?

I think having the senior bods of Fáilte Ireland being former Ryanair, etc, makes a degree of sense in normal times. Ryanair have done a hell of a lot to revolutionise tourism.

AJ....the guy is worth about 80 million. 20K FFS....!!

[anonymous_joe]

Haha, fair enough.

I was wondereing why he'd even bother with the role.

[Uncle fester]

Big storm coming in. Missus choose a great time to be in West Cork.

[Camroc2]

The old shinner moral high horse is reaching thin air altitudes at this stage. Mary Lou would want to watch it, the old nag mightn't be able to hold her up for much longer, what with having to gallop from Belfast to Clifden, whilst at the same time getting higher and higher.

[Camroc2]

147 cases, zero deaths.

Again the 8 pm operational report will tell us more.

[Duff Paddy]

147 cases, zero deaths.

Again the 8 pm operational report will tell us more.

This is one mental virus. It seems to be done. For now.

[ticketlessinseattle]

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/08 ... hil-hogan/

that pic of Hogan with his boss has mansplaining written all over it.....

[CM11]

So runny nose/sneezing not something that rules kids out of attending school, thank christ. Just the main covid symptoms. Wahay!!

[ticketlessinseattle]

from today ; good to see, basically, the schools are opening - drive on te fcuk....

Dr Ronan Glynn, Acting Chief Medical Officer said evidence suggests “ children do not commonly transmit Covid-19 to other children or adults in school settings.
“Internationally, where schools have been reopened, schools have not been a significant driver of community transmission.
“We all have a role to play in keeping this virus at low levels - this is key to protecting our education system over the coming weeks.”

[dob]

147 cases, zero deaths.

Again the 8 pm operational report will tell us more.

This is one mental virus. It seems to be done. For now.

Good thing there isn't a very large country that would in normal times be a major trading partner, with strong economic and social ties to Ireland, currently experiencing tens of thousands of new cases and hundreds of deaths every day.

[Duff Paddy]

147 cases, zero deaths.

Again the 8 pm operational report will tell us more.

This is one mental virus. It seems to be done. For now.

Good thing there isn't a very large country that would in normal times be a major trading partner, with strong economic and social ties to Ireland, currently experiencing tens of thousands of new cases and hundreds of deaths every day.

Hundreds of deaths? Are you drunk?

[Gav]

This is one mental virus. It seems to be done. For now.

Good thing there isn't a very large country that would in normal times be a major trading partner, with strong economic and social ties to Ireland, currently experiencing tens of thousands of new cases and hundreds of deaths every day.

Hundreds of deaths? Are you drunk?

He's talking about the states dude.

[Duff Paddy]

Yeah realised that, bizarre comparison. Maybe the UK at a stretch but even then.

[EnergiseR]

So runny nose/sneezing not something that rules kids out of attending school, thank christ. Just the main covid symptoms. Wahay!!

My young fellas asthma means he has a cough all winter. It's gonna be a disaster for us as that's obviously one of the no no's

[CM11]

So runny nose/sneezing not something that rules kids out of attending school, thank christ. Just the main covid symptoms. Wahay!!

My young fellas asthma means he has a cough all winter. It's gonna be a disaster for us as that's obviously one of the no no's

Tbf, they say new cough. You're going to have to talk this through with GP/school, I guess?

[EnergiseR]

It's the coughing dropping him off will be problematic. Anyway his classmates will all be 'You have corona aids and I'm telling my mum'

[CM11]

It's the coughing dropping him off will be problematic. Anyway his classmates will all be 'You have corona aids and I'm telling my mum'

Hope you manage a way through this for him/you.

[CM11]

Drop in hospital numbers after the weekend. Absolutely stable and nearly back to our ICU low.

[EnergiseR]

It's the coughing dropping him off will be problematic. Anyway his classmates will all be 'You have corona aids and I'm telling my mum'

Hope you manage a way through this for him/you.

It'll be a long winter for everyone. It's not WW3 so it'll be grand

[Camroc2]

22 in hospital, 5 in ICU, 3 being ventilated. Yesterday's blip was just that.

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/ne ... t-2020.pdf

[Duff Paddy]

Drop in hospital numbers after the weekend. Absolutely stable and nearly back to our ICU low.

But people are dying in States

[CM11]

It's the coughing dropping him off will be problematic. Anyway his classmates will all be 'You have corona aids and I'm telling my mum'

Hope you manage a way through this for him/you.

It'll be a long winter for everyone. It's not WW3 so it'll be grand

[CM11]

22 in hospital, 5 in ICU, 3 being ventilated. Yesterday's blip was just that.

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/ne ... t-2020.pdf

As Glynn says, nothing has changed, it's just running through a younger part of the population. 75% under 45 with a median age of 32 for the last two weeks. Way lower than before. It's no bad thing, sort of, but still need to be wary.

[Camroc2]

22 in hospital, 5 in ICU, 3 being ventilated. Yesterday's blip was just that.

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/ne ... t-2020.pdf

As Glynn says, nothing has changed, it's just running through a younger part of the population. 75% under 45 with a median age of 32 for the last two weeks. Way lower than before. It's no bad thing, sort of, but still need to be wary.

You know my opinion. Anyway, I'll hold fire for a week or two until the schools have settled in, which is, I presume, the real reason Glynn is toeing the line he is.

Schools opening should remove the media spotlight from Hogan as well. WTF is Martin playing at ?

[dob]

Yeah realised that, bizarre comparison. Maybe the UK at a stretch but even then.

Wasn't a comparison, just that your post said the virus was "done, for now." Even if you treat the current situation over here as separate from what's going on in Ireland, you have to have concerns that it will just take a handful of superspreading holidaymakers slipping through their quarantine restrictions to kick off a big outbreak again. And there are people over here who will give absolutely zero thought to being that superspreader, so it's going to remain a live threat until a handle gets put on it over here, and in other countries with high numbers.

[dob]

22 in hospital, 5 in ICU, 3 being ventilated. Yesterday's blip was just that.

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/ne ... t-2020.pdf

As Glynn says, nothing has changed, it's just running through a younger part of the population. 75% under 45 with a median age of 32 for the last two weeks. Way lower than before. It's no bad thing, sort of, but still need to be wary.

Without anything concrete to hand, we're seeing a similar drop in age of infected over here; I dunno if it means the virus has done all it can with the Boomers, or if they're just being more careful while the young types are being less careful, but it certainly seems to be the under 50s who are keeping the thing spreading and alive.

[EnergiseR]

No idea Cam. Should have hung Cassidy out to dry and got on with it. Making out it was worse than gbh on a baby was one of the stupidest things I have ever seen. Have they not learned they don't get rewarded for that shit. Where are the articles hammering getting rid of Phil is stoopid. One or two here or there and that is it. Utterly shambolic but having Leo and Micheál as leaders is basically like having Jacinda only fücking two of the dicks

[Duff Paddy]

Yeah realised that, bizarre comparison. Maybe the UK at a stretch but even then.

Wasn't a comparison, just that your post said the virus was "done, for now." Even if you treat the current situation over here as separate from what's going on in Ireland, you have to have concerns that it will just take a handful of superspreading holidaymakers slipping through their quarantine restrictions to kick off a big outbreak again. And there are people over here who will give absolutely zero thought to being that superspreader, so it's going to remain a live threat until a handle gets put on it over here, and in other countries with high numbers.

Well I think that’s probably why we have our resources into track and trace DOB. The pattern we are seeing is comparable to most other European countries now. There will be spikes obviously, but other counties to which we are comparable aren’t seeing big spikes in hospital admissions or deaths either. So it is done for now, yes there will be subsequent waves, obviously it is still a threat but we’re not in the same place that we were in in February.

[EnergiseR]

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/eco ... -1.4337607

Look at how dangerously worded this headline is from the IT. What it should say is Ireland hasn't applied for a loan yet but can if it wants. Instead it reads like the EU are withholding the money and all the fringe pricks on the left and right can babble on Facebook a out it having not read it properly.