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Shitshow on tyrone tv already !

Surely  the media facilities in Omagh have to be the best in the county. Is it a broadband issue ? Picture quality was poor.

From Education committee today , Minister Weir and CEO of CEA- Justin....., both stood over the need to moderate and standardise the results to protect the credibility of the exams.
England, Scotland & Wales have abandoned that plan, so does this not doubly disadvantage those whose grades were moderated downwards.
They continually referred to anomalies being addressed by appeals in batches by schools , across subjects and on that point, they anticipate a X 5 increase in appeals. For A2 students these have to be addressed before 7th of Sept !

Minister Weird and DENI are a complete shitshow.
1. A level rsults are a complete disaster zone,   GCSE next week will be no better.
2. The return to school guidance info. that all schools have been waiting , is being made available TODAY, of all days , funny that !

Something needs to be done about the level of incompetence

It looked Killie made the pitch smaller yesterday, sidelines moved inwards , pitch shorter. Ten behind the ball. Difficult to break that down!

Return of  a weekly shop and buying  of the local butcher etc.

To put the situation in perspective, about 10 000 children do the GL /AQE test .
There are 345 000 children enrolled in the Education System in the North.

There aren't too many jobs where the employee will be expected to spend 5-6 hours in a small room with up to 30 and sometimes more pupils, with no social distancing, no PPE advised and little ventilation.

Cannot understand why they didn't go with a half day for schools for eg the first 3 weeks, just to make sure all covid regulations were working and any issues could have been sorted before a full opening

A gradual start was the plan for most schools, however , Minister Weird , was tapped up,  to make a change without consulting anyone outside of his Party .

For one thing , if risk assessments are adhered to , some schools will not open  full time. No school has an expert in risk assessment and few have attended any suitable training.

No Principal or Governors ( although indemified ) will be happy with the threat of being sued by a Union.

He should have enabled a gradual return to normal hours over a 3 -4 week period !

Ulster GAA/Antrim GAA Directive to all club committees

Social Clubs
Advice from Ulster Council is that 99% of our social clubs should not be open as they operate as effective wet houses and not restaurant style operations, I have heard numerous stories of how clubs think they can circumvent guidelines and legislation , so things to consider if wishing to open a bar.

Does your club have adequate facilities with hygiene clearance to adhere to legislation if providing food?


If providing an outdoor beer garden , do you have table service in place, has outdoor beer garden been passed for insurance and meeting council legislation?


Is your social club operating a members only policy and are you logging time and date members enter and exit social club?

 
Financial viability of opening a social club in this climate, ,(without functions that are not allowed) is very limited , margins are low in social clubs added to this additional staff costs due to waitering service and extra hygiene costs , ask yourself would your social club actually make money in this current climate or is opening your social club actually costing your club money to stay open, I have heard stories of the bar gives us cash flow, Turnover is a lot difference than profit, running a social club to get turnover while it is loosing money is economic madness and no committee should allow this to happen.

Club Shops

Shops can open if you can implement safe guards,
If opening club shop to sell club gear, this can be organised for collection in a timely manner.


If wanting to open shop to sell tea/coffee etc at matches, the reality is you are attracting up to 400 people to one point at a pressure period of time, rush hour is half time, realistically social distancing at our club tea shops is unrealistic as most of them work out of a small container with a hatch or door, I seen one club trying their best , where a person buys cup of tea and then goes to a separate table to put in milk and sugar, but remember all people who bought a cup of tea went to that table and lifted the milk etc , so unless you are 100% sure that you can implement hygiene controls , I would ask you to keep shop shut during matches as precautionary measure .

 

Changing Rooms/Hall

All indoor facilities are closed except toilets if you have no other toilet options , so no changing in halls , no letting your hall out to five a side , no using hall as it was raining on a training day.

If a club uses indoor facilitates and they have a Covid issue , if a player etc tests positive and has been found to have been indoors in one of our clubs , .i.e. at video analyses or team meeting, this will be judged as close contact by public health authorities and club is a risk of being shut down and being removed from participation in all games and training, per Croke Park advice , Covid is 19 times more likely to spread if indoor usage of clubs, that is why they have closed indoor facilities.


Conclusion

Ask yourself do you or another club executive member want to explain to the press and local community or maybe even a judge , why due to flouting guidance your club is the centre of a Covid outbreak in your community, even worse do you want to have to attend a wake to apologise on behalf of club for being the source of a Covid outbreak that caused someone to die ?

 

During the eye of the storm when the country was in the Bhearna Bhaoil , CLG stood up and was counted, we seen all that is good about our association, so while we lobbied hard to get our youth back playing games with limited supporters, we agreed to act in a responsible manner, we are not a business , we are not a social club confederation , we are the GAA, who are held in high esteem within our communities , so please remember who you are and what you represent and help keep your community safe, keep up the good work and enjoy your games.

 County chair

Jerome's doing a fine job on the coverage with decent co-commentators. Kerr and McGourty did well. Keep it up.

The commentating on the St.Endas / St.Galls match was poor! 

Has it not opened up to 400 supporters? Got a text earlier about it, could be wrong though

400 for each club?

200 per club - 400 supporters overall.

So it's still 400? Was it originally 200?

The 400 includes players and management , so roughly 160 spectators per club.

Paddy Raff... if Jamie Bryson gets his way lol

That's no great loss.

His TV stuff is middling but the stuff on LAD was first class.

It's not middling. It's utter shite.

I was starting to think I was the only one who could see this.

TV show was completely dire!

The 'home' clubs have no responsibility to 'away' supporters. All supporters are advised to wear a mask and bring hand sanitiser. The season ticket is the method used by each club to track and trace in the event of a covid alert. Each club should have a list of ticket holders, match day panels and club officials.

I don't know how it works tintin.

What stages of knockout do these groups even lead to? I am assuming semi finals so top in every group in senior and top two in intermediate and junior?

I don't know how it works tintin.

What stages of knockout do these groups even lead to? I am assuming semi finals so top in every group in senior and top two in intermediate and junior?

SENIOR - Qtr finals
IFC/JFC   - Top 2 in each group into semi s

At the referees discretion.
I saw an incident yesterday , where in the  10 min  sin bin, there  was  5 mins of actual game time , due to injuries , fouling, another black card , subs made and indeed the water break.