Relaxation of Restrictions, Part X *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

Hellrazer

Klonker wrote: »

Possibly another conflict between Government and NPHET on the cards. Be interesting to see how this plays out.

Tonys back - what did you expect.
He`ll win again as our spineless, useless and incompetent ministers wont go against him.

_Kaiser_

McSharry making a lot of sense on NT at the moment calling for an actual strategy

Jinglejangle69

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

McSharry making a lot of sense on NT at the moment calling for an actual strategy

Yep.

Jonathan is a snide condescending presenter.

Just loves lockdown as it obviously has no affect on him.

_Kaiser_

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

Yep.

Jonathan is a snide condescending presenter.

Just loves lockdown as it obviously ha no affect on him.

Yea that's my impression too. Sniggering away when trying to challenge on something that wasn't what the man said because he didn't listen.

Awful presenter

Jinglejangle69

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Yea that's my impression too. Sniggering away when trying to challenge on something that wasn't what the man said because he didn't listen.

Awful presenter

And trying to put words in his mouth.

He's brutal.

Gael23

I’m not sure Tony will get his way here. The government know that public patience is fraying around the edges and need to address that:
Do we know what exactly the disagreement is on?

daydorunrun

Boggles wrote: »

Travel where?

Emm, to another county- to see family members/friends that haven't been able to see each other legally since last December!

If restrictions don't effect some people on here they don't care about how they affect others- zero empathy. I'm alright jack.

_Kaiser_

Fair play Mark. Calling out not only the lack of strategy but Micheal Martin's/the Government's entire approach to this.

Healy shouldn't be let near anything beyond a vox pop again though. He's trying to stir up another media headline that NT will no doubt be playing back in their news headlines for the rest of the day.

suicide_circus

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Yea that's my impression too. Sniggering away when trying to challenge on something that wasn't what the man said because he didn't listen.

Awful presenter

He is and always has been dreadful.

_Kaiser_

Jonathan seems to find it incredible that someone in Government can have a different opinion than the herd.

That right there is the problem with the media (and politics) in this country.

Boggles

daydorunrun wrote: »

Emm, to another county- to see family members/friends that haven't been able to see each other legally since last December!

If restrictions don't effect some people on here they don't care about how they affect others- zero empathy. I'm alright jack.

What in the name of God are you taking about?

Inter County GAA players can resume training, there is no matches yet.

Again people getting outraged because they are confused or purposely ignorant. It must be exhausting.

GAA senior inter-county teams can return to collective inter-county training from 19 April after approval from Cabinet on Tueesday.

Meanwhile, children's non-contact training for outdoor sports can resume in pods of less than 15 from 26 April

Bloody children can train in 5 days, not fair will somebody think of the permanently outraged!!!

newuser99999

Boggles wrote: »

What in the name of God are you taking about?

Inter County GAA players can resume training, there is no matches yet.

Again people getting outraged because they are confused or purposely ignorant. It must be exhausting.



Bloody children can train in 5 days, not fair will somebody think of the permanently outraged!!!

Lol you think every GAA player lives in the county that they play for? Of course they’ll be traveling for training.

daydorunrun

Boggles wrote: »

What in the name of God are you taking about?

Inter County GAA players can resume training, there is no matches yet.

Again people getting outraged because they are confused or purposely ignorant. It must be exhausting.

You asked the question 'travel where?' in response to a poster who made the point-

- Inter-county travel needs to be restored urgently for all. The nonsense that the GAA can travel but not the average punter is ridiculous

The point being made was intercounty travel bans should be lifted for all. I assumed (either correctly or incorrectly) that you were asking 'where' these 'average punters' would travel to. In other words there is no reason for anybody to travel inter county.

If I'm wrong in this assumption, my bad- unlike you I can be wrong from time to time and not afraid to admit it.

Boggles

newuser99999 wrote: »

Lol you think every GAA player lives in the county that they play for? Of course they’ll be traveling for training.

Yeah, let's get all outraged on assumptions and purposeful ignorance.

Bloody kids and young people training.

Damn you Doctor Tony.

Boggles

daydorunrun wrote: »

You asked the question 'travel where?' in response to a poster who made the point-




The point being made was intercounty travel bans should be lifted for all. I assumed (either correctly or incorrectly) that you were asking 'where' these 'average punters' would travel to. In other words there is no reason for anybody to travel inter county.

If I'm wrong in this assumption, my bad- unlike you I can be wrong from time to time and not afraid to admit it.

Yes it's my fault you are utterly confused. Apologies :rolleyes:

newuser99999

Boggles wrote: »

Yeah, let's get all outraged on assumptions and purposeful ignorance.

Bloody kids and young people training.

Damn you Doctor Tony.

It’s not an assumption it’s a fact.

Not sure what you’re rambling on about.

Boggles

newuser99999 wrote: »

It’s not an assumption it’s a fact.

Not sure what you’re rambling on about.

What is a fact?

newuser99999

Boggles wrote: »

What is a fact?

GAA players are traveling outside of their county for training

Boggles

newuser99999 wrote: »

GAA players are traveling outside of their county for training

Name them?

funnydoggy

Boggles wrote: »

Name them?

Too far IMO. Not fair to name and shame individual people.

newuser99999

Boggles wrote: »

Name them?

No I won’t.

It’s common knowledge which ones are not working in the county that they play for.

newuser99999

newuser99999 wrote: »

No I won’t.

It’s common knowledge which ones are not working in the county that they play for.

What harm are they doing if they are travelling outside there county for training? People all over the country travelling outside there counties now

FrankN1

Any idea when all retail is opening up?

Boggles

newuser99999 wrote: »

No I won’t.

It’s common knowledge which ones are not working in the county that they play for.

Sorry it's common knowledge where all inter county GAA players live?

You are assuming again me thinks.

Tut Tut.

Would it be fair to say that the majority of GAA players who make up the 30+ panels would live in the county? I imagine (assumption) a portion of these travel for work purposes to different counties, if we really want to throw outrage nuggets on the fire.

And wouldn't it be fair to say that you would want to be a special sort of contrarian to be outraged over young people and kids being allowed train outdoors even if a portion of them have to cross county lines to do so?

WrenBoy

Boggles wrote: »

Sorry it's common knowledge where all inter county GAA players live?

You are assuming again me thinks.

Tut Tut.

Would it be fair to say that the majority of GAA players who make up the 30+ panels would live in the county? I imagine (assumption) a portion of these travel for work purposes to different counties, if we really want to throw outrage nuggets on the fire.

And wouldn't it be fair to say that you would want to be a special sort of contrarian to be outraged over young people and kids being allowed train outdoors even if a portion of them have to cross county lines to do so?

I personally know 2 players that live in one county and have to travel to others to train with their county team. Its fairly common.

Boggles

WrenBoy wrote: »

I personally know 2 players that live in one county and have to travel to others to train with their county team. Its fairly common.

I personally know 3 that live, work and train in the county they live in. I don't know about the other 1000+.

Do I win?

daydorunrun

Boggles wrote: »

I personally know 3 that live, work and train in the county they live in. I don't know about the other 1000+.

Do I win?

Name them?

newuser99999

Boggles wrote: »

Sorry it's common knowledge where all inter county GAA players live?

You are assuming again me thinks.

Tut Tut.

Would it be fair to say that the majority of GAA players who make up the 30+ panels would live in the county? I imagine (assumption) a portion of these travel for work purposes to different counties, if we really want to throw outrage nuggets on the fire.

And wouldn't it be fair to say that you would want to be a special sort of contrarian to be outraged over young people and kids being allowed train outdoors even if a portion of them have to cross county lines to do so?

Everyone should just do what they want so. Everything is a big overreaction.

Boggles

daydorunrun wrote: »

Name them?

John, Paul, Ringo.

ypres5

Boggles wrote: »

John, Paul, Ringo.

To be fair you wanted people to start naming names first so there's no need to get snarky when you get given a taste of your own medicine

average_runner

newuser99999 wrote: »

No I won’t.

It’s common knowledge which ones are not working in the county that they play for.

And what is the problem with that? If they are going straight to training and back.


There is thousands of people going outside their county daily. The amount of cars i saw on Monday when I had to leave my county

newuser99999

average_runner wrote: »

And what is the problem with that? If they are going straight to training and back.


There is thousands of people going outside their county daily. The amount of cars i saw on Monday when I had to leave my county

Because it’s obviously breaking the guidelines? You’re not meant to travel outside of your county. Why do the GAA get to bend the rules?

Boggles

ypres5 wrote: »

To be fair you wanted people to start naming names first so there's no need to get snarky when you get given a taste of your own medicine

My question was rhetorical.

It had to be really.

KrustyUCC

Why single out GAA players?

Plenty of league of Ireland players doing the same

One very talented player was on Nationwide during the week

Now playing with a Dublin club and travels from Cork several times a week

average_runner

newuser99999 wrote: »

Because it’s obviously breaking the guidelines? You’re not meant to travel outside of your county. Why do the GAA get to bend the rules?

Elite sport is allowed to travel outside the county though.
Rugby and Soccer have being doing it for the last 3 months.
Irish Swimmers are doing it also

newuser99999

average_runner wrote: »

Elite sport is allowed to travel outside the county though.
Rugby and Soccer have being doing it for the last 3 months.
Irish Swimmers are doing it also

It’s not an elite sport and it’s not covered under the exemptions. Rugby and soccer are.

Boggles

newuser99999 wrote: »

Because it’s obviously breaking the guidelines? You’re not meant to travel outside of your county. Why do the GAA get to bend the rules?

Of course you are as long as you have a permitted reason for doing so.

Inter County training as of Monday has been permitted as have:

High performing athletes, as approved by Sport Ireland, can resume

You'd imagine this would make the perpetual doom mongers happy?

Also from Monday next.

Outdoor sports facilities can reopen (for example: pitches, golf courses and tennis courts, other facilities as appropriate)

Outdoor visitor attractions can reopen (for example: zoos, open pet farms, heritage sites). Amusement parks are not permitted to open

Underage non-contact outdoor training in pods of 15 or fewer can restart

Maximum attendance at funerals will increase to 25

Chin up.

emo72

Carphone warehouse gone. Need to start opening up now. Fast.

average_runner

emo72 wrote: »

Carphone warehouse gone. Need to start opening up now. Fast.

It had nothing to do with the lockdown. At least do some research. It went in the Uk last year

Boggles

emo72 wrote: »

Carphone warehouse gone. Need to start opening up now. Fast.

How is Xtra-Vision doing?

average_runner

newuser99999 wrote: »

It’s not an elite sport and it’s not covered under the exemptions. Rugby and soccer are.

Inter County GAA was allowed to train from the 19th, so players can travel across counties now.

Also from last week, you were allowed to travel within 20k of another county if you were close to it

Vicxas

emo72 wrote: »

Carphone warehouse gone. Need to start opening up now. Fast.

Nothing to do with lockdown, people are just buying phones online now.

emo72

average_runner wrote: »

It had nothing to do with the lockdown. At least do some research. It went in the Uk last year

Ah I know them probably weren't in the best condition. But they won't be the only ones that go.

Sexual Chocolate

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.rte.ie/amp/1211181/

hynesie08

emo72 wrote: »

Carphone warehouse gone. Need to start opening up now. Fast.

They never closed..

jusvi2001

Tony is back...Time for a full lockdown again

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/dr-tony-holohan-returns-to-work-as-chief-medical-officer-1.4542281?mode=amp#aoh=16190015736680&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s

PTH2009

https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2021/0421/1211175-hard-for-euros-to-go-ahead-in-dublin-tanaiste/

Obviously it was expected but it is outrages we're losing these games because of how cowardly our government are. Why can other places go ahead and host games are some capacity

Reckon it would open up a can of worms as other sporting organisations will want people attending and then concert promoters etc

How great would it be if we decided yeah we'll host the games are 25% capacity thus starting the road to recovery of events in this country but Tony/NPHET find it too risky and demand the government say no

emo72

hynesie08 wrote: »

They never closed..

I know. They were essential. But the fact that people weren't really going to shopping centers, wouldn't that have an effect on passing trade.

Degag

OwenM wrote: »

Really. Micheal Martin is the most indecisive vacillating person to ever get elected in the history of Irish politics.

I would love to read your in depth thesis on the totally of Irish history and every political figure elected to office within that period.

I’m sure it makes for fascinating reading.

Or maybe you don’t have one and your last post is more sensationalist drivil in this thread?

average_runner

emo72 wrote: »

I know. They were essential. But the fact that people weren't really going to shopping centers, wouldn't that have an effect on passing trade.

The reason their trade was affected is because its cheaper to buy sim free phones on line. Can't remember the last time i entered their shop, 2017-2018 i say.


Their model went stale, closed in the UK last year.