RTE 1: 'Today' with Claire Byrne

When you think back on McRedmond's line in that interview - first his focus is on the large online retailers, they know how to handle the paperwork whilst Sean or Sinead citizen is mucking his processes up. Then he says the local post office network is not all that important to An Post, they can manage without it.

I mean you'd seriously have to question who he f***ing thinks he's running the postal service for because the ordinary citizen customer just appears to be a nuisance to him. Next he'll be proposing communal collection points and the citizen will be obliged to go along and collect their post and deliveries.

I have great time for local post office staff and delivery men & women. Usually cheerful, helpful & hard working. But I know from chats with same, that the service is overburdened with overpaid management types who do little other than think up occasional new wheezes that invariably push new processes and paperwork onto front line staff. Wheezes that tend to fail because market research wasn't carried out in the first place.

Ronan Glynn doing the rounds this morning, heard him on P Kenny show earlier.

Pretty much the same message which in essence has been no message

garbage from him as usual

I think there is a very clear message from him and from all the experts at the moment. The system is collapsing. If the current measures don't work then more severe action will have to be taken. They are preparing us for lockdown.

The health service is collapsing?

No one actually believes this.

The Health service itself no but under unrelenting pressure but the systems the Hapless HSE are supposed to be overseeing absolutely collapsing, from PCR testing, Track and Trace, Public Health & schools, there's even now a question mark over absurd comments from Paul Reid regarding no show for boosters and indeed how that roll out going. I won't get started on the Teacher staffing or indeed Health service staffing crisis due to covid .

Difficult not to think something seriously wrong with the above examples and to top it all off a government absolutely devoid of any leadership, its an appalling mess whatever way an objective person looks at what is going on.

Sorry to hear about your experience. As it happens I was admitted to hospital on the 10th November, arrived at A&E and a crash team jumped into action. Its fair to say the A&E department was chaotic but to the hospitals credit they had systems in place to deal with absolute emergencies.

I was actually on a Trolley after being stabilised for two days, eventually moved to a ward and after some incredible care was released last Thursday, the consultant and Nurses were anxious for me to get home, there was a absolute sense they were moving to a war footing . They already had two Covid wards full .

I fully understand your experience, yes there's chaos but I'm very grateful for the care I received and indeed humbled by the care I got but also witnessed. The Hospital was Tullamore and despite the absolute pressure front line staff under, they are and continue to do an extraordinary Job .

Leo on, I was in good form till I heard this clown . The primary fatigue being felt in the country at the moment is being caused by this government and abject lack of leadership.

I suspect those working in the frontline and indeed patients might argue with his absurd notion, trolly numbers down.

No doubt he'll be on about this terrible 5% of the population causing all the trouble.

Is 'chaos' in A&E primarily a consequence of covid? Is it massively worse than other years?

Mother of God this antigen test debacle is beyond farcical at this stage

Recent survey suggests near 50% of parents very hesitant about vaccinating children.

Leo absolutely deluded about what sectors actually availed of wage subsidy scheme's, the very sectors now impacted, night clubs, late bars rarely availed of these scheme's and just let staff go to claim PUP, few if any restaurants availed of these scheme's either , extending, maintaining EWSS is meaningless to hospitality staff who'll likely end up having to apply for basic JSA as PUP no longer an option.

That’s pretty obvious Dee, take a chill pill dude.

Lol, at least One RTE staffer not fawning over Garth Brooks, David Fanning 🤣