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As mad as a box of frogs

[that time Derry had an exceptional corner back who's name escapes me.]

In my own county Dermot Early & Tony Mc.

Outside Willie Joe & Ciaran Mac were special.

Anthony Tohill , around that time Derry had an exceptional corner back who's name escapes me.

Westmeath had Mike Spike Fagan.

Louth had Stefan White.

In hurling Sylvie Linnane, Ger McInerery, Duignan for Offaly and Limericks Ciaran Carey were special.

Tony Scullion or Kieran McKeever

Sean Marty Lockhart,

Last day of McDonald's today.
McDonald's Kennedy way closed down by the police because of the crowds that had descended.
McDonald's boucher road queued onto the M1.

People are nuts

They define globalization & capitalism,  great if they never opened again,  hard to beat the local chippers.

[Derry had an exceptional corner back who's name escapes me.]

In my own county Dermot Early & Tony Mc.

Outside Willie Joe & Ciaran Mac were special.

Anthony Tohill , around that time Derry had an exceptional corner back who's name escapes me.

Westmeath had Mike Spike Fagan.

Louth had Stefan White.

In hurling Sylvie Linnane, Ger McInerery, Duignan for Offaly and Limericks Ciaran Carey were special.

Kieran McKeever or Tony Scullion?

Sean Marty Lockhart

In my own county Dermot Early & Tony Mc.

Outside Willie Joe & Ciaran Mac were special.

Anthony Tohill , around that time Derry had an exceptional corner back who's name escapes me.

Westmeath had Mike Spike Fagan.

Louth had Stefan White.

In hurling Sylvie Linnane, Ger McInerery, Duignan for Offaly and Limericks Ciaran Carey were special.

From page 104 of Rte teletext

Generally you need to be 15 mins or more in the vicinity of an infected person, within 1 to 2 metres, to be considered at risk or a close contact.

Is this true? Yesterday folk were saying fuel pumps were huge spreaders.

500L of Kero from Morgan Fuels delivered for £183. Cant be bad to that

Got a quote for 300 Euro for 500 litres today.

Door Knobs/ Handles and petrol pump handles are bound to be hot spots for the virus. Have yet to see anybody wiping these down with anti virus mix.

Exactly. I have stopped reading about it in most avenues. Twitter is a disaster for it. I would never normally be off it for sports and tech related stuff now I don't go near it.

Deleted Facebook. Everyone is an expert all of a sudden. Fake news and rumours. I work over 2 acute hospital emergency departments.there is a strange eerie atmosphere. Like being on a countdown. It's hard to keep the anxiety curtailed but you have to get on with it.

Deleting Facebook is a step in the right direction. Leaving Gaaboard too, probably a good idea, all social media. Social media gives every eggit a voice. People telling us how to wash our hands & cough into our upper arm & not peoples faces, dont invade people's space etc. Is this not basic manners. Anyway we gave a thread on depression/ anxiety might be useful for my wee wans in years to come, with the pandemic of fear and paranoia being spread currently.

Celebrities getting Corona or having potential symptoms and speaking of their experience is now another norm, coming out as having covid hashtag.

Stop the world I want to get off.

Best thing that can happen is the internet goes into a 1 month lock down. The hysterical b%llox talk will kill more stupids than the virus itself.

How many anxious filled teens & children are we creating, the pharmaceutical industry is alive and well.

Day 3 of lockdown here's in Barcelona, first self imposed and then mandatory. Going OK. Astounding to see images from home of crowds in temple bar last night and friends telling me about going to the pub etc. So few people seem to actually what lockdown actually implies. We keep getting asked if we're managing "to get out for walks" and the like.

When the same comes into force in Ireland, both North and South, it'll be "oh aye, we're on complete lockdown. I only brought the kids to see me mummy for half an hour and then we went to the park for a bit before a quick shop and home."

Please explain what a lock down in Barcelona entails. Food, critical services,  non critical workers ( do they get paid), do you need documentation to go out side etc

Better late than never but was a little slower than it should have been.

What less than a couple of hours after the government statement to the same effect, after following advice of government departments for the previous couple of weeks? 

I expect us to lead that's all.

Why would the GAA lead on this, have they the relevant medical experts to come to medical conclusions. The government has medical advisors to advise - so the government leads and the GAA follows. This is exactly what happened here. Exactly how it should be.

People flocking to supermarkets in their hundreds.

Hardly a good idea considering the advice given 

I was down the town it's absolutely mental here, apparently the guards were called to Lidl earlier. I met the local milk agent and he said it was way worse than the time of the snow. No milk or bread to be got

Why are people reacting like this. It's irrational.

As an oul timer round here once said about another matter  "it's because they can't put it into their oul computers and get the answer".

Thats true

Why on earth would the GAA have ordered a full shutdown when all its members are still mingling daily at school and work?

The GAA can now follow up appropriately and will do today.

Some of you are demanding. Some of you are just twisty and nasty. Most of you are just unrealistic.

It's called leadership! The GAA has a responsibility to look after the best interest of its members and players. Regardless of what other activities its members get up to there is an onus on the GAA hierarchy to give a clear direction for matches and club activity. I'm sure they will get their act together soon following the Gov announcement but I'd have expected it to be sooner.

Again, unrealistic, demanding, maybe even twisty.


As of this morning, every u7, u9 and u11 rural Gael in Ireland was sitting in a confined space with all other children their age.

Even the under 7s would have been able to point out the flaw in telling them the GAA club had stopped their training.

I agree Wobbler - however we live in an age of social media crazed fanatics.

[negotiation]

Meant to go to Disney Paris on Monday with the kids, booked it last summer. Disney aren't closing/won't close so can't claim any money back through travel agency. Checked with the travel insurance and you don't have a claim if you decide not to travel because you are worried about the situation as it is, you have to have it to claim! Travel agents are going on like there's nothing happening at all. It stinks. Even the kids are worried about going now. I agree we shouldn't be going but that's a big bill to swallow and no way to claim any of it back. All paid for too - anybody know anyway around it?

Feel your pain, as mentioned it's all about the money, hopefully folk stop booking in advance after this is all over and give the travel and entertainment the kick up the ass it needs. Imagine the money they have a year or so in advance of your trip.

Government is to blame here.  Insurances won't kick in until the Government bites the bullet (and not all insurances will kick-in even then). They are going to need to put in place a hardline approach eventually, and better to do so soon while it has a chance of being effective. 

Anyone with a bit of sense is way ahead of the government and in reality social distancing is already going on with many businesses cancelling meetings and events and individuals / families cancelling holidays and trips. Meanwhile, government is slavishly sticking to the same line and resultingly, so too are many business and people. 

Absolute madness.  Some nonsense from talking heads on TV about the risk of people rebelling against a lockdown and how strong measures now could be counter productive. Most people I know are ready for action now to avert the kind of disaster that is playing out in Italy.

Until government give the kind of leadership that is required, we are going to be sitting in limbo with some people being highly responsible and others being highly irresponsible and people like yourself stuck in a quandry between going on holiday and cancelling and the government advice letting the travel insurer off the hook. 

Being told today that even if the government come out and warn against travel to certain areas you still can't be refunded. They have to ban all travel to whatever country you are heading to. Travel companies make you feel like a dipstick when you try to talk to them - nothing to worry about! Even to rearrange the park/hotel package and lose the flights you have to pick dates now when you've no idea what's ahead of us and you lose your ATOL cover because it's no longer a package. Pricks.

The principle of my child's school is in negotiation with the travel company after school ski trip on Saturday cancelled, bunch of greedy whores, hopefully this whole sorry episode changes the landscape for these companies, they have 50K from this school for a trip that can't happen and they are in negotiations about any possible refund!

Your understanding of business and basic economics is truly shocking. That company will most likely have paid hotels, flights, transfers. They'll have wages to pay. What do you want them to do? Not pay wages? Put local people out of jobs? Please give me your solution?

This is Sein Fein economics, welcome to the Ireland of the future.