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The Sky Pick channel have some of the games and that's available on virgin media and I presume all sky packages. Everton v Liverpool, man utd v Sheffield Utd and Brighton v man Utd are on that before the end of June.

The 2001 game vs Holland was on RTE tonight. Keane stood out a mile with his composure on the ball. Would love if we could get back to that standard again.

Based on the last dance series from Netflix

Games are starting soon, and in fairness if the Germans have managed it safely (we'll know next week as that'll be the 3rd week) then no reason to get it going again.

Though what's happening with relegation? Teams would need to be coming up for teams to go down?

Is there no joined up approach here or just elitist?

17th June for the premier league restarting.

The championship is starting back as well. They've tested all players recently.

By far the best Bundesliga game so far. The pace and intensity in the 1st half was brilliant. Shame that the title race is over now.

Davies, the left back for Bayern, looks like a superstar in the making.

I enjoyed the Dortmund game. Football without fans is much better nothing at all.

The bundesliga is going to kick off on the 15th of May but we have  to wait until October for a  behind closed doors game of hurling. It doesn't seem right. Surely GAA can return sooner.

Hurling should probably be able to return earlier. Just adapt the helmets so that they work like a visor and all players to wear light gloves.

It would be impossible to play any field sport with a cover on your mouth/nose.

Pete McGrath basically saying write the year off and work towards getting everything possible in place for next year. . . if the Olympics are doing it on the scale they have then why should a vastly smaller organisation be taking a bigger risk?

I'd love football and hurling to be back but there's a fair chance that the infection will spread again if we do. It's tough but probably the best option!

The Olympics today are saying that next year might not be possible either and that they would just have to cancel.

The Olympics involves 1000s of Athletes and 100,000s spectators travelling from all over the world.

The GAA is confined largely within one country. Different animal.

Gaa is only Amatuer. Professional Leagues like the Dutch and French have cancelled their season, with more likely to follow like Seria A.

I saw a guideline for how they plan to play Bundesliga behind closeds doors, and it wouldn't be possible in GAA.

I was reading about the premier league's plans to return. They reckon to test all players/staff involved twice a week until the season is finished would cost £2 million. I hadn't thought about the cost of testing but that immediately makes it unviable in the GAA.

No licences to be given for events of more than 5,000 people until September at earliest https://jrnl.ie/5080226

Not good. If you presume the 657 cases are people who got it fairly recently, then they got it after the measures started and some of these might be dying in a fortnight. Probably, the German cases are quite old.
But there is still more to be done.

38 more people have died from Covid-19 in the State, bringing the overall death toll to 444.

657  more cases of the coronavirus have also been diagnosed in the Republic. In addition, a further 411 cases of coronavirus were confirmed from the backlog of tests at the laboratory in Germany.

Any break down on the deaths per county or are they sticking to east, west and north west when reporting deaths?

The 6 counties at 140 confirmed deaths but are only counting Hospital deaths. 14,635 confirmed cases on the island of Ireland.

https://www.con-telegraph.ie/news/roundup/articles/2020/04/15/4188624-number-of-confirmed-covid/

That has the number of cases in Connacht.

[The data in Ireland is poor, there is no table numbering the recovered. How on earth can one measure the real progress if any, if you can't compare the numbers of recovered to the numbers of live infected?]

Can't help but notice the Swedes missing from this with their interesting approach.

That list is nonsense. And it isn't a question of what is the best approach, more what you can do with a population who can act responsibly.
Fwiw, despite the Swedes being very slow to recommend self isolation for returnees to the country, very  slow to inform close knit immigrant communities in Stockholm  in their own language about the health info,  they are doing reasonably with their approach. Ireland are just next to to Swedan in the deaths per population table, doing quite poorly and struggling despite the martial law lock down approach.
Another country I mentioned was Iceland  https://www.covid.is/data who have a similar approach to Sweden, there is no lock down,  they have detected a high rate of infections per population but have managed to contain it without a lock down, their peak is well in the past, and they they're preparing for a controlled responsible normality in the next 2 weeks. No roll of the dice as some uninformed folks like to label it.

The data in Ireland is poor, there is no table numbering the recovered. How on earth can one measure the real progress if any,  if you can't compare the numbers of recovered  to the numbers of  live infected?

Recovery doesn't sell fear presumably.

I'm also still continuing to search for data on smokers with this disease from any country, but it's not forthcoming. Why?

No argument with the point in bold, perfectly fair question to ask.

We have a limited testing capacity so can't retest everyone to prove they recovered. The number of people being released from ICU is published however.

I heard yesterday they're low on swabs in the Mayo test centres and will only be testing health care workers for the next few days at least.

Simon Harris says social distancing will continue in Ireland until a vaccine available. Unless the GAA Championship is played with near empty stadiums it's looking more and more likely that we won't have a 2020 championship.

Exactly what I'm trying to say and most likely no league nor championship in 2021 either with a possibility of 2022 a no go too , if it's a vaccine that's required . A vaccine has not been past test stage yet , I'm reading  some reports that it takes up to three years . No report has mentioned a more optimistic time frame than 12-18 months and then you have to manufacture and distribute world wide . If all this is true how could a championship be possible for next summer ?

One would hope by next year there is a better control community spread. Acting much faster on testing, contact tracing, and isolation.

Even still, what would happen if the games start back and a county player (or manager) contracts the virus? Would the competition just be suspended while that panel goes into 2 weeks quarantine?

Didn't see it all only snippets but did Dr Holohan not say as there is nobody waiting on a test? He also appears to be answering the same questions repeatedly because those asking the questions don't understand the answers?

Given the choice of him and his qualifications or some politician or worse again some social media quack I'm siding with him.

I didnt see it, that's what I heard. However it is utter bullshit to say no one is waiting on a test. The HSE changed the rules on contact tracing earlier this week because there was such a waiting list for tests.

The waiting list for getting tested is not bad at all. I know a man in his 60s who called his gp and got an appointment in Castlebar 2 days later. It's the waiting on results that's taking ages, with batches of tests being sent to Germany for processing.

The table @Hound put up earlier is interesting. Our rate of deaths is not brilliant by any means. Although some of the poorer nations may not be recording covid deaths as accurately.

Oisín Mullin and Frank Irwin from Mayo were due to fly out for trials in September or October but that's been postponed indefinitely. From a selfish point of view, it's one upside of the whole pandemic

Can't see Pearse Hanley moving home at this stage however.

Just crossed the million confirmed cases worldwide.

Confirmed deaths are just over 50k now.