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https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/ciar%C3%A1n-murphy-tyrone-s-blase-attitude-to-vaccination-is-questionable-at-best-1.4656047
Ciarán Murphy: Tyrone's blase attitude to vaccination is questionable at best

If Tyrone win then expect much more of these pieces from the rags over the next few weeks. They will want their beloved Mayo to win at all costs.

BJ is reviewing the the vaccine passport having dismissed it before, backtracking it seems.

I've people coming into work with lanyards on with the "vaccined" card

Hopefully this will increase the likelihood of going on holidays, entering bars and restaurants

Totally agree, it'd be great to know when you're on a flight that everyone is vaccinated. It'd also be great there was a high uptake of the vaccine in countries you're going to. I see some companies are requiring their employees to get the vaccine and that's something I'm glad to see. People should be free to not take the vaccine but they shouldn't be free to put other people at risk. If I'm in a crowded bar or restaurant I'd like to think everyone in there has had the vaccine.

Does the vaccine stop you from carrying the virus ? Does the vaccine stop you from getting the virus ? If the answer to both the questions is yes then you don't have to worry about vaccine passports for your safety (as long as you have been vaccinated ).

I think it stops you from being hospitalized. the strain is less and you won't be as unwell

I have a beachside property for sale in Fintona you might be interested in..

He'll probably appeal. I don't think he can do anything regarding a plea bargain. the guards have their shooter so can't imagine they've any real incentive to offer him anything to try and get the accomplices who they'll probably nail at some stage regardless

While they have their shooter, the evidence seemed dodgy enough if you ask me.

Same

whole thing stinks. was there even a 'gang' ffs?

I haven't been on here in a while but would like some advice if someone could be so kind.

A friend of mine works in Belfast but has been working from home at her parents in Fermanagh.

Today she received word that as of next week she has to return to the office and start working from there again. They are staggering workers back to the office.

She has very bad asthma and suffers with anxiety.

Can they enforce this given the UK governments stance of if you can work from home you must?

She does not feel comfortable with this plan whatsoever!

If she can do her work from home then she should continue to work from him.
But if, for example, she worked in manufacturing then her employer could make her go into work.
According to government guidance manufacturing should still be continuing in the UK, where social distance should be maintained as much as possible, but if it can't be then other precautions should be put in place.  These instructions are here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/social-distancing-in-the-workplace-during-coronavirus-covid-19-sector-guidance#manufacturing-and-processing-businesses

It is down to the company to determine if she can work from home and do her job to same level.

So if you can prove the job is done correctly at home then you should be allowed.

Automatically you are then putting more people on the roads, interacting with shops, petrol stations buses or trains, more risk of poor social distancing measures.

Why not stick it out? Seems to be going against what the 'experts' are saying

First of all, if her company is still open then it "should" be a critical company of some sort - that is my assumption.

I'm sorry Itchy, but this is just not correct.  Read the Manufacturing section of this for example: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/social-distancing-in-the-workplace-during-coronavirus-covid-19-sector-guidance

I'm not in the UK

You're not the brightest either

It's said he died last Monday. A mercy that he was spared what happened on Tuesday night.

generation snowflake

You're pretty sharp.

better than a hysterical idiot

"A mercy that he was spared what happened on Tuesday night."

FFS grow up.

It's said he died last Monday. A mercy that he was spared what happened on Tuesday night.

generation snowflake

They don't know who they are. Settlers never do.

What about the Celtic settlers in Ireland?

What kind of remuneration are the Dundalk players on - any full time or all part time?

Not 100% on all of them. Some are semi-pro. McMillan, for example, is an architect but only works about 20-25 hours per week.

I think even the lads that are 'pro' wouldn't exactly be making much money on it although I suppose getting paid anything for playing ball is great.

As an aside, are these the only Irish lads seeing euro game time this season? Most of the Irish that play for Brit teams aren't in euro competitions - only one I can think of is Shane Long?

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/ciarán-murphy-time-for-club-players-to-get-deserved-respect-1.2827347

Interesting. Article in the times on the plight of the club players.  Inter county seems to rule the roost which is completely unfair to the 95% that don't get to play at the county level.

I'm sure there are many of us with similar stories that we might want to share.

Couple of interesting points jeez but he is some boring writer

[I would not be short of throwing a bit of personal abuse back at the man]

Would Hennelly have been better off saying nothing and keeping his head down though?

who cares? that's not the point. who can actually say if he would be better to or not? Joe isn't the lord almighty.

I tell ye if it was me on the other end I would not be short of throwing a bit of personal abuse back at the man as there is plenty of skeletons in the wardrobe. If hes man enough to dish it out!

Yeah but stooping to that level is never the solution. Reminds me of Jim Jeffries bit about the bible:

"The bible, that's gods book, as far as I know the devil hasn't brought out a book yet, haven't heard his side of the argument. God's just writing sh1t about him, and the devil's being the bigger man and saying I'm not even going to comment, talking sh1t about me like that."

Protestants ditched that nonsense almost 500 years ago.

Yes they realised that brainwashing works a lot better if the crap your spouting doesn't insult the basic intelligence of the target market.

No wonder Catholicism thrives amidst horrible uneducated poverty.

That pic reminds me of this one ...

A hell of a lot more was " won" on the back of the rising, I think he'd have been happy enough....

26 counties. Good job.

Dont forget getting ruled by priests for 50 years. Great craic that was for all concerned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDb9nvzY9sY

Apparently it was not in Johnny Cooper's nature to do this.

We should all lay off Aidan O'Shea.

But Tiernan McCann should apologise.

Whelan is an excellent pundit. Very enjoyable to listen to and very fair. He went slightly over the top last year with mccanns disgraceful and disgusting play acting but he learned from that this year. There is real ambiguity about the oshea "dive" given the pictures circulating on twitter which seem to show a trip by the Fermanagh defender. Harte seems to take every opportunity he can get to bad mouth rte. He should really get over the non promotion of brian carty.

Whelan was shown up as a hypocrite last year, he was more than willing to go to town on Tyrone last year but when his own county turned out a display of thuggery he was there downplaying the incidents and his own players.

As a player he was a thug and as a pundit he is a two faced hypocrite who is willing to push the agenda of his bosses over the fair and balanced display his role should require.

I suppose you are form the same school as Whelan though given your refusal to condemn Enda Lynn's playacting last year that saw a Down man incorrectly red carded.

As for Mickey Harte, I think he has reacted with great dignity and principle after the Free State broadcaster thought it would be funny to mock his daughter's death.

If there was such an anti Tyrone agenda on rte how come this year they have received nothing but praise? The simple fact is for years under harte tyrone were the most cynical team around and masters of the dark arts. Since peter donnelly has come in tyyrone are playing a much more attractive style and they are rightly getting credit. The only agenda is an anti rte agenda from tyrone people. Hartes good friend carty didn't get promoted and harte needs to get over that.

Harte wrote a letter to RTE and RTE's response was to leak the letter and commission a skit about him with an extremely insensitive dig about his recently bereaved daughter. Anyone with any moral fibre will see that Harte and the wider Tyrone GAA community is justified in their stance with RTE.

The simple fact is that there have been other teams every bit as cynical and masters at the dark arts as Tyrone in the past few years that have got off without as much as a whisper.

Dublin have had a couple of biting allegations, gouging, behind closed doors mass brawls, two of their players up in court for assaults, guys like Cooper and McMahon regularly acting the maggot. No mud has stuck there, there is no log book being collected on Dublin's unsavoury incidents.

In fact some of the stuff which has been used as a stick to beat Tyrone has been completely erroneous, the lies spread and spread about the two minors last year, the rubbish spouted about our u21s last years. No apologies have been forthcoming about that, have they?

I don't care what they say about Tyrone, I just only care that other counties are held to the same strict scrutiny we are, which as you and I both know is not the case.

Wow - no offence mate but that's some whiney post!!

A lot of armchair fans griping here

Why not get off your holes and follow you're local team rather than remain enslaved by the TV

thats pretty much what irish 'sports fans' are. was over for the swedish match in paris and met some malmo lads who knew more about the local game here than any off the arsenal/man utd/liverpool etc boys in green. its actually embarrassing.