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Just pulled the road bike outta the garage for the first time in 18months. Front break lever has absolutely no tension. Do we think its just the cables or would the fluid have leaked?

Hydraulic brake. Try pumping it repeatedly. That happens on my mountain bike if not used for a bit.

Just tried, nothing happening. Noticed it was moving the pads slightly, and poked about about there was a yellowish fluid, I'm assuming that is not good news.

No, does not sound good. Out of interest was the bike stored with the front wheel in the air?

[The obvious questions here are they going to stay away if they feel unwell?Common sense to me may not be common sense to the next man (i know)Of course the risk here is someone could have it and not know...(prob the biggie here]

This may sound silly but is there not a common sense approach among people you trust. Say you have a close knit 6 cyclists you all trust each other and are good friends, surely if you are all well and feeling fit with no sickness or high temp is there any harm in going out as your normal group?. Not asking for a friend btw...lol, i've been solo for the last few months but i'm itching to get back out with the mates.
The obvious questions here are they going to stay away if they feel unwell?
Common sense to me may not be common sense to the next man (i know)
Of course the risk here is someone could have it and not know...(prob the biggie here)
Don't want a full debate on the virus as there is a thread for that but just more related to cycling...thanks.

I think you've sort of answered your own question. Until CI give the go ahead we have to wait.

Bad form. Seen quite a few groups 4/5 over the weekend. No club colours! although i recognised quite a few different club members. Daft and liable to get a backlash.
     Im afraid the more this thing drags on the more selfish traits i see in people.

True but the current thing is a unique specimen.

That he surely is, but he's only a puppet for powerful forces pushing this agenda.

I've bought my first Disc brake yoke (12mm thru axle)  as my new Winter bike, having avoided Disc brakes up until now I feel like a total novice again. I was looking at a deal on budget Carbon Disc Wheels as a quick upgrade and Christ was I lost. Seems to be very little standardised with Disc Bikes & wheels?  lots of adaptors required etc... Looks like a bit of a minefield.

Definitely a lot more fiddling around with the setup with disc brakes. For instance, swapping a new set of wheels in, will probably mean adjusting the disc caliper alignment.
       
   

I've bought my first Disc brake yoke (12mm thru axle)  as my new Winter bike, having avoided Disc brakes up until now I feel like a total novice again. I was looking at a deal on budget Carbon Disc Wheels as a quick upgrade and Christ was I lost. Seems to be very little standardised with Disc Bikes & wheels?  lots of adaptors required etc... Looks like a bit of a minefield.

I'm riding my first disc brake bike (last 6 weeks), one piece of advice is take wheel off whilst cleaning/oiling the chain. One spec of petrol or oil etc near the disc is a disaster. I cleaned my chain last week with petrol and then oiled afterwards, everything went great (so i thought) and brakes worked perfect but was caught out last week in the rain and when the discs are wet they squealed like mad (so loud) due to the small splash of petrol/oil that i didn't know had contaminated the disc/pads.
Good luck with it BennyD

It may not be the oil, could be just all the muck/grime splashed up fron the road. I use a little brake disc cleaner on the disc and pads. If the pads have been badly contaminated by oil you can even try sanding them a little if they are metal. The resin pads are basically toast if they get contaminated by oil/brake fluid. At £18 a pop its an expensive mistake

[Perhaps dentistry could be on a similar basis]

Activities involving close contact, such as hairdressing, are done by a household member, but with guidance provided by a professional via video link.

This was an interesting suggestion, if you do not live alone. Perhaps dentistry could be on a similar basis.

I'd say that would end well!

What are the implications for a furloughed employee and their original employer if they now take up a temporary job in another sector?

Wee bit on that at in thia guide.

https://www.lewissilkin.com/en/insights/furloughing-employefaqs-for-employers-on-the-coronavirus-job-retention-scheme

I assumed it was covid 19 loan scheme as i asked them about it. Perhaps i was corralled into one of their own existing business loan packages?
    I shall ask again and specifcally state covid 19 government loan scheme. Thank you for the advice

Guys i run/ran a small business in town, things where going nicely up to this virus. Now we're closed, I opened the ice-cream parlour and coffee shop for my wife to run as her and her sister had previously ran their fathers shop (no longer opened from he passed away) so they know what they're doing. TBH i get a few quid out of it for doing very little but it's a job for my wife and her sister along with another five people. Now the shop is closed and with not much money in the bank as the shop is still in it's first year, my Landlord will not accept my phone calls so i can try and arrange an agreement to try and get through this mess but no joy there. I have a few direct debits that come out along with the wages. If i get a freeze on the direct debits and the Government pay me back the 80% for the wages i'll be fine but if they don't and the other direct debits don't play ball with me then it game over...Simple as that.

Other alternative is to let them all go and stop my direct debits and hope this blows over quick and try and repair a few broken relationships (not my preferred choice).

https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/campaign/coronavirus-updates-support-your-business

I'm sure you've looked at the site above. Are you entitled to the business support grant scheme?
       I'm in a similar position to yourself. Small business 3 employees. Work has ground to a halt so zero cashflow. 
       Unfortunately i dont qualify for the 80% employee retention scheme. I Have managed to keep everybody employed and on their full salary, through having some cash reserves and an overdraft facility.
      I have approached my bank re a loan but those that i have approached(to date) do not want an unsecured loan and are asking for my home as security for the loan. Needless to say that is very concerning for my family.
      I have a busineess interruption insurance but believe it or not closure due to a world wide pandemic doesnt qualify me. 
       I have looked at other ways to reduce costs in the mean time including a freeze on my professional indemnity payments and  obviously material/ supplier costs, electricity/heating etc.
        I'm praying that i qualify for that business support grant to tide me through and that this disaster abates.
         Weirdly just before this crisis our biggest conundrum in work was sorting and scheduling out holidays between our staff!
           I wish you well and hope things pan out for you.

What small business has 4 billion handy?

Running a business on small margins is not the same as running a small business.

So if I owned a coffee cafe place,  had four workers managed to get a wage pay wages and rates and so on and the margins are about 4% profit after that that's not great?

At a time like this? Evidently not. Ever read, or even heard of, The Black Swan?

No one prepared for a time like this, people have the balls to give it a go and making a living out of working for themselves and earning a living for their local employees. If you had that attitude you'd never try and own a business

you have to hedge for uncertain times though, this is certainly worst case scenario, but fail to prepare, prepare to fail and all that  .
banks are mainly to blame having said that, far too much easy credit still

Honestly, how many businesses that you personally know or are involved in had preparations for a global pandemic and the business unterruption that it would involve?

ONeills making scrubs is pr bullshit. Hospitals need ventilators, masks, gloves and aprons. Not shiny new scrubs.

So are they just making them for the good of their health or have they got orders from the heathy trusts?

Not to mention its one thing going from making tracksuits to making scrubs.
What part of the ONeills factory can be repurposed to make ventilators?!
Example given earlier that a vacuum cleaner manufacturer switched to making ventilators - at lest there's some sort of similarity. Air tight systems with pumps filters and tubes.

On a general note, nobody here has a clue what the majority of businesses are dealing with.
It's one thing saying to keep paying staff, if there's no money coming in there's no business and all the staff get laid off

If it is a nightmare for us then it is a nightmare for them. No company wants to fail. However, there are companies out there that will sacrafice staff for money.

True. However, you would be suprised to know how many small businesses are just getting by week to week as opposed to longer term plans.
       In many cases they are one bad month away from closing. The 80% employment retention scheme in the uk and its equivalent in Ireland was a life/job saver at least until this thing ends(goodness knows when that will be).  That along with the Grants and other incentives will help things tick over. But i've a feeling we are just kicking the can down the road a little further. 
       Nobody wants to see their business fail, bit i've an awful bad feeling that once this thing ends and any governemnt support gets turned off then huge numbers of small and medium businesses are going to hit the wall.
       
       

Yep a wins a win. Two teams not going well at the minute, but we just about got the result. With the exception of Cork(and i could be wrong!) I don't think there is much between the other counties in the division. 

Kilcoo are masters at the dark arts of the game and Corofin got sucked into a war of attrition during normal time. Crippled with fear and allowed Kilcoo to get under their skin. Amazing what happens when they just cut loose and played their own game.

Tbh thats a bit of a lazy narrative.
      On the game itself, i thought Kilcoo just ran out of steam after playing with 14 for most of the second half. Kilcoo still had the chances to win in normal time but squandered a few. Although they never looked like scoring goals like they did in previous rounds.
       Corofin clearly a better team with a lot more scoring threat, but they were very nearly beaten today and but for the sending off and those squandered kilcoo chances they arguably should have been.

Why did the ref bring the free forward? Kilcoo deserved the draw in the end but the ref can't just bring a free forward for nothing and there didn't appear to be any reason to move it up.

The Corofin player prevented laverty from taking the free and threw the ball away. Stupid and unnecessary. Corofin have only themselves to blame