Can we have some fcuking control on the airports from high risk countries please?

maestroamado wrote: »

Does anyone know what Belfast Airport is like as Dublin is not up to speed with what is needed.
It may be they will get the equipment needed as it was too slow on arrivals last week.
I think i read here people queued on tarmac....

I came through on Wednesday lunchtime and there were no delays. The lad at the booth next to me announced he had no documents, don't know how that plan works at the moment, with covid testing.

normanoffside wrote: »

Given that Ireland now has the third highest Covid rates in the EU and all EU countries cases are almost equally divided by the Alpha and Delta variants, what has Mandatory Hotel Quarantine achieved other than create hardship and xenophobia?

It seemed to placate the wokerati on Twitter for a while with their purple hair and Vote Yes badges.

saabsaab wrote: »

Know a fella that flew out to Spain last month un vaccinated said it was just as bad here as there but he now has Covid! Recovering now, but it was a bad dose.

Sounds like something Dr Ray 'The Anecdote' Walley would say as if it's some kind of proof of something.

Flew in from Amsterdam 3 days ago after spending 2 weeks in Greece to avoid MHQ after spending a few weeks in a red lis country. A large group of Irish women on the flight coming from Dubai - they did not seem worried about MHQ, to quote them: "they won't check." I thought immigration would check but of course they didn't - all the girls sailed through. In my case, immigration checked my PCR results and my locator form receipt, but didn't check my passport. Of course, these women were fully vaccinated and had a negative PCR test, so MHQ would have been ludicrous, but it sums up the gaping holes in the attempts to stop people coming from Red List countries. For all the 'noise' around the restrictions, there's very little strictness either leaving or returning.

seansouth36 wrote: »

Flew in from Amsterdam 3 days ago after spending 2 weeks in Greece to avoid MHQ after spending a few weeks in a red lis country. A large group of Irish women on the flight coming from Dubai - they did not seem worried about MHQ, to quote them: "they won't check." I thought immigration would check but of course they didn't - all the girls sailed through. In my case, immigration checked my PCR results and my locator form receipt, but didn't check my passport. Of course, these women were fully vaccinated and had a negative PCR test, so MHQ would have been ludicrous, but it sums up the gaping holes in the attempts to stop people coming from Red List countries. For all the 'noise' around the restrictions, there's very little strictness either leaving or returning.

That's your experience but from my own first hand experience and from anecdotal evidence they sure as hell are strict. I flew in and out of Cork in June. I was quizzed going out as to the reasons for my travel and immigration were extremely thorough on return, checking everything from every single passenger. I saw two people being hauled off to MHQ over issues with PCR. I completely disagree with the Irish approach but to say they're not strict and not applying rules, is incorrect.

joseywhales wrote: »

Sailed in there from merica, it took less than 1 minute to get through border check, showed him print out of test and locator, he glanced and told me to "head on", my favourite security check in the world. Most on the flight were non eu, so I really got through fast, much faster than previous.

Flown between Texas and Dublin 6 times since the pandemic started and this has been my experience. I have business and citizenship with both countries so its never been a problem. I have always followed the hse guidelines and originally did the full 14 day quarantine and now the modified shorter with negative test and been fully vaccinated since March.

I've never really been questioned on what I was doing or going just said it was for business and off I went, of all the locator forms I filled in they only called me once....

seansouth36 wrote: »

Flew in from Amsterdam 3 days ago after spending 2 weeks in Greece to avoid MHQ after spending a few weeks in a red lis country. A large group of Irish women on the flight coming from Dubai - they did not seem worried about MHQ, to quote them: "they won't check." I thought immigration would check but of course they didn't - all the girls sailed through. In my case, immigration checked my PCR results and my locator form receipt, but didn't check my passport. Of course, these women were fully vaccinated and had a negative PCR test, so MHQ would have been ludicrous, but it sums up the gaping holes in the attempts to stop people coming from Red List countries. For all the 'noise' around the restrictions, there's very little strictness either leaving or returning.

There is much more chances of getting Covid here in Ireland now than in UAE.

M_Murphy57 wrote: »

Quizzed? So asked questions and relying on your verbal answer?!

"Coming from Amsterdam girls?"
"Yip"
"Been to any red list countries girls?"
"Nope"
"On ye go"

Very thorough. im sure that'll stop the huns transitting through Amsterdam to avoid MHQ.

They weren't even that thorough. For me it was just: "Where are you coming from? Amsterdam. Grand."

On the way out the Garda asked if I was going traveling for work and before I could show him my letter, he waved me on.

The absurdity of a fully vaccinated person having to hotel quarantine yet a non-vaccinated person coming from the UK not having to aside, they simply are not being strict on this.

seansouth36 wrote: »

Maybe in Cork, but in Dublin it's not the case. PCR and passenger locator form receipt were being checked and a brief glance at passport and that was it. No one was having their passport scanned or the stamps checked (fairly easy way to see if you have recently left Dubai/Turkey etc).

They were asking everyone in Cork to pull down the masks so they could see your face, it was that thorough. I really wouldn't fancy my chances not having a good reason to get out and not having everything in order coming back. In comparison to entering and exiting in Alicante where all was efficient but cool, you're talking North Korea with those Defence officers hanging around for added effect. You really would want to be mental to come here at the moment.

I did my 5 days quarantine til the test and just got a few texts from the HSE, ie was I deffo at the same address, that kind of stuff. The quarantine would indeed be simple to break, it's ridiculous anyway.:rolleyes:

Over the last couple of weeks while on my walks around Cork Airport I haven't seen any Guards checking departing passengers out on the roads, outside the terminal or in the check in area. Unless they've moved to the departures area upstairs. They're not where they have been since the checks started anyway.

...just copied British with their MHQs , added our ugly staff to it. At the end we've got monstrosity in North Korean style.