RTE 1: 'Today' with Claire Byrne

The Clare Byrne show shedding listeners.

Who would have thought talking about Covid for 90% of the show each day would sit well with listeners.

Lol Book an appointment, you couldn't make it up 🙄

The ‘Attack Dog’ Leninhan was out there feeding those in the queue the negative passes.

The usual attitude……like Croke Park with the Dubs playing, stay in the boozers till the last minute and then expect to walk in no bother.

I’m not saying it’s an analogy, not saying the planning was perfect, but more than expected turned up-it happens.

Lenihan was fizzing at the bunghole trying to generate as much ‘anger’ and shade as he could from the queue.

Unfortunately it's happening at other centre's, the situation is chaotic generally.

Just as an example, I got my booster last sat at GP surgery (immune compromised), I've never been registered with HSE, got my initial vacancies at GP also and yet, I've received notifications about appointments, tried to cancel, tried to contact HSE and just gave up.

I'm certainly not alone, one Trainee GP on the hard shoulder last night got 9, yes 9 texts despite already being boosted.

I accept what happened this morning can occur but for Michael Martin to stand up in the Dail and claim over 90k just didn't bother to turn up was disgraceful, asked to clarify the next day, he refused to admit he was wrong, despite the HSE actually admitting there's an issue with their booking and notification system.

Couldn't have put it better myself 😁

Hilarious, another Leak , yet to be confirmed, they can't blame NPHET this time around. I'm completely baffled about this U Turn on EWSS , Pascal & Co seem to think this will help the hospitality sector, there's a number slight issues with that absurd notion.

Only a few days ago Leo clearly stated few employers in this sector ever availed of this scheme and dare I say he's completely correct . Employees were essentially dropped like bad habits, forced to fend for themselves on PUP or Jobseekers payments.

The EWSS is utterly useless to hospitality & night time economy employees as they'll simply be forced onto the new PUP (With lots of strings attached) and it's equally useless to self employed people who ,if reports are correct are getting declined for the new PUP.

Dee, as an aside, your blood seems to “boil” very easily these days. Settle down a bit and r e l a x.

Do you really think that those who you think should get the lekkie handout and those you think should not get it ,can be easily segregated and parceled up before Xmas and ready for the New Year first bill.

Are you oxygen deprived up on that mountain or something ………….

Not a f****ing chance my friend and I’ll let you into a secret, I was passing through a certain area of our capital city which might be classed as deprived, yesterday.

It was festooned with lights, bulbs, sleighs, on roofs, windows, moving reindeer, whole house fronts a mass of bulbs………

Didnt look to this poster like a place that might struggle with the lekkie bills.

Not saying that they don’t, but tell ya this, my friend, a lot of energy being burned…..just sayin …😎

Of course………..Of course…….🙄

Vote buying hasn't gone out of fashion. See the latest polls.

I of course don’t determine the rights and wrongs of a Gov. decision, on Xmas lighting, that’s your inference and it wrong.

I would respectfully suggest that to set this all up, advise the service provider, have them adjust their billing for millions of customers, handle the undoubted fallout and outlying issues that would undoubtedly occur, and have all this ready for the first bill in 2022 and all for the sake of €100.00.!! a pop.

One would have to ,with all due respects suggest that that ‘plan’ the ‘timing window’ the work and resources involved would be absolute madness.

Complete headbanger territory, to be completely honest.

I have put down in black and a white background why it would be madness to try to target a section of consumers “who actually need it” in any timeframe , but certainly not given the timeframe and time of year we have now.

If you forgive me for saying you seem to have a very poor perception of how to handle crowds.

Look at the gig economy, they can handle total cancellations, but look at the panic when they had to sort out 50% !!!!

Try and, instead of using everything to denigrate the govt. and it’s plans, to for once be pragmatic and calm yourself down.

There is no sense whatsoever from your posts on this issue…………get a bit real, my friend.

Only one with the shovel in the hand is those who suggest what your posts seem to imply.

Bizzare, which is it , Boost after getting covid or Not 🤔

Scare won't be happy until schools close , it would make her extended Christmas break a little easier to plan so to speak 😁

Why is Andrew Bridgen such a regular on this show?! They invite him on for controversy and to drum up ratings, surely. He and Claire are the two extremes- he’s saying do absolutely nothing about Omicron, Claire is saying it’s time to crack each other’s heads open and feast on the goo inside.

God forbid we have a balanced, proportionate response to this new variant- seems to me we don’t know enough either way yet. Bridgen keeps parroting “no one has died in South Africa from this variant yet”- at one point, no one in Italy had died from covid either. On the other hand, I refuse to give in to any more of the fear that Covid FM aka RTÉ Radio 1 wants me to feel every minute of the day.