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Bloodlands was alright last night. Nesbitt's overacting on the island was a bit strange but it has a bit of potential.
Charlene McKenna seems dead on but jesus she'd give the Priest with most boring voice a run for his money in Fr Ted!
Arlene talking about re-visiting the school openings, based on the announcement from Johnson. Sounds like they'll push for more students back on 8th March
Decision was made by the executive last Thursday .....what has changed ?
I am truly sorry to hear about your father and I hope he can pull out of danger. It may not look likely right now but let’s hope your dad will prove to be an exception to the general run.Thanks for your good wishes Lar and to the other posters who expressed sympathies over my Dad's condition, that's a very well written post and I'm so glad for you that you have overcome Covid. I myself was sweating in the PPE - gown, gloves, mask, visor, and I was only a visitor so wasn't running around like the staff. My Dad was actually lucky in some ways in that he ended up in a single room, and we were able to visit him since Sunday as he no longer classed as infectious, but sadly he died yesterday morning with me and my Mam cradling him in our arms. The culprit was 100% Covid, it ravaged his system to the point where antibiotics would no longer work, dexamethasone wouldn't work, nothing else would work in terms of saving him, and the sound of him struggling to breathe at some points over his last couple of of days will haunt me forever, it sounded like he was drowning. He opened his eyes with about 12 hours left to try and communicate with me, as if he was asking me to save him, I know he knew I was there, but I was helpless except to try and comfort him with words, and he was helpless and so were the staff to do anything except try and make him as comfortable as possible. It's a f**king horrible way to die and I wouldn't wish his last week on anybody, nor my last week.
I genuinely understand why the amount of pseudo experts who peddle false Covid-related information upsets you. They carry a frightful responsibility as they dole out crap that could cause a loss of innocent lives if anyone should believe what they are saying.
I too am enraged by the sort of fake news you refer to.
I contracted the virus and spent a number of days in Beaumont Hospital. In all honesty, I cannot decide which was worse, the virus or the stay in the hospital ward. I wouldn’t wish either on my worst enemy- assuming I have one of those.
My main memory is of the frontline staff literally running as they tried to do their work. The sweat was pumping out of them as they all were wearing around a stone of PPE gear. The fear of contracting the virus terrifies each and every one of them as they see the effects of the virus on all sides.
I cannot understand the mentality of those who seek to downplay the effects of Covid-19 or who brag about their refusal to take the vaccine if it was made available to them.
I stay away from Covid-related discussions on this board because I am upset by the amount of nonsense I see posted and I don’t want to go into them in detail.
Although I have noticed that a few posters that I’d normally rate as sensible, are inclined to downplay the effects of the virus or claim they won’t avail of the vaccine.
The most charitable thing I can say to them is that, if they were to spend305 minutes in a Covid ward, they would change their views fast.
Keep the faith sid and I hope you can bear with whatever lies in store. I hope the news will be good.
Gregory Campbell is making a statement later on about his controversial tweet(or facebook message or whatever it was).
This should be good...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-55985100
Good old Gregory. Twat
Arlene was destroyed on The View tonight, and great to see it. She hadn't a leg to stand on when Carruthers exposed her and the DUP for what it's all about ... feck the businesses and livelihoods, it's all about the constitution and them remaining ultra-British. They really are pathetic.
The good old days...
I remember the time when the Gaaboard was a great place to visit...
Plenty of great topics.....oppurtunity to learn........take on other peoples thoughts/opinions...brilliant characters....who could all respectfully debate....
Lately it has been absolutely polluted by one member and its leaving it impossible to read many of the great threads...
Its a real shame.....
Butcher used to come round our way. And the turfman.
When FA Cup Final Saturday was the biggest day in the Soccer Calendar.
The Preview, the teams coming in on their buses, the interviews, the nostalgia!
You'd sit down and watch it the whole day - no matter who was in the final.
Lucky you. Farming slave labour meant the rest of us would spend Saturday's cleaning out calf houses, or filling muck spreaders from the dunghill with a grape, or pulling rag weeds or topping grass and so on and so forth.
Doing a bit of reading up on this myself. It looks as if meddling with when the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine is given will turn out to be a mistake.Definitely some worrying news starting to filter through about the vaccine. An uneven spread of distribution around the world which defeats the purpose of immunisation. A delay in the Astra vaccine in Ireland until mid February at the earliest and probably worst of all is reports from Israel that they believe one dose of the Pfizer vaccine is giving just 33% efficacy. If we are in this for the long haul then surely closing borders, 14 day hotel quarantine and letting us get on with it is the only viable option.
That's not quite true. What they said was if the 2nd dose is given within the 14 days of the 1st dose as recommended then the vaccine is performing as advertised by Pfizer.
People who received the 2nd dose after the 14 day recommended limit (like the UK) see a significant drop off in the perfomance of the vaccine and that's were they are getting the 33% efficacy figure
Nurse from a Cork Hospital on the News tonight talking about the trauma of treating young people unable to breathe because of this awful virus.
Do you ever post about the awful trauma of suicide victims, road traffic deaths or cancer sufferers or do you cynically use Covid as a train for your own sanctimony.
Maybe have a word with a domestic abuse victim about her trauma.
Your Gay Byrne facade would make anyone sick.
The irony of this post is just stunning!
No irony there at all.
Where guys like you put Covid victims up at the top of a hierarchy I have consistently argued that we need to look at all victims equally and at the minute we are not doing that.
We have you usual empty smartarse comment before you'll run on again. Tell me why Covid victims are above everyone else. Show me your concern and your demand that we address other causes of preventable deaths that happen on an ongoing, annual basis. I don't expect you'll be able to address this - quelle surprise.
you cynically use Covid as a train for your own sanctimony.Then on the very next line:
Maybe have a word with a domestic abuse victim about her trauma.
Nurse from a Cork Hospital on the News tonight talking about the trauma of treating young people unable to breathe because of this awful virus.
Do you ever post about the awful trauma of suicide victims, road traffic deaths or cancer sufferers or do you cynically use Covid as a train for your own sanctimony.
Maybe have a word with a domestic abuse victim about her trauma.
Your Gay Byrne facade would make anyone sick.
