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Lock the GAA Board down.

lockdowns don't work... have you not read this thread!! 

the gah board is where the experts are sure 

The money men couldn't afford for sevco to go bust again. If rangers fail, Celtic make less money ala 2012-2016. Sevco in so much debt this year, that if they don't qualify for champions league, they are gone again. Money men made a decision to effectively forfeit the league to keep sevco alive. 10 in a row would be great for the support, but money men don't care about that. Lennon is just the fall guy.

Have heard of that sort of stuff before. Back 20+ years ago when Rangers were very strong and a plethora of points in front in the League, Rangers would throw a League game the week before the scheduled Old Firm Derby. In doing so they'd offer a (very) small window of opportunity to Celtic. This would heighten the profile and interest of the upcoming game. Fans would go crazy for tickets. Betting on the game would go up! It also helped make the League look competitive - even if it was not!

I think of the Dublin Football team in AI finals the last couple of years where they take the foot off the pedal and try to make the final score as if the final was not a mis-match.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz1nIHv6P6Q

Israel moving well. They will be out of danger totally in 4 weeks
Can't get my head around the people who continue to say sure we don't know if it's stops transmission onto others. It really doesn't matter if it does or not. If you vaccinate all over 60s and the most vulnerable let it spread away. A small amount below 60 need hospital admission

It does matter because if it doesn't stop transmission then the virus will never go away and you'd probably end up having to continually re-vaccinate the population as immunity progressively wears off - it's going to be difficult enough to vaccinate 80% or more of the population once

The soundings are good re the vaccine significantly inhibiting transmission so hopefully this situation can be avoided

Also I don't think we want the virus running rampant even among under 70s, that could also put enough people in hospital to overwhelm the health system, it's not a cold and it's not a flu, it's a serious virus

I'd be pretty sure Niall Murphy wouldn't have ended up in an induced coma if he got the flu. Yes it is less serious for under 60s but it has the potential to be an unnecessary burden on the NHS if people refuse the vaccine and turn up to hospital with symptoms requiring treatment and putting workers at risk.

niall murphy is in terrible physical shape for a man of his age so this is where personal responsibility comes in, if we were healthier and exercised more there would be less chance of hospitalization. 60% of adults here are overweight with 20% obese, it plays a massive factor in this disease specifically as it targets the lungs.

Sky or BBC

I'm genuinely not on the wind up here, but I thought that most folk aspiring to a UI looked to the RTE for their news etc.  Tbh, as a unionist who listens to BBC TV, Radio etc, this would be one of the reasons why I would not be too keen on a UI.  Perhaps not the correct thread for this, but there you go.

Would never watch RTE news, in fairness I wouldn't watch news unless there was something came up

When I was young and troubles were going we only had between 4-6 channels. In Derry we had no issue getting "teilifís Éireann" as everyone called it and my Da insisted on RTÉ 1 being button 1 then RTÉ 2 button 2. Anything to prove our Irishness lol, but with advent of sky the 6 o clock news on RTÉ has got lost a bit. I still always go to TG4 and RTÉ channels everyday though for other stuff.

that's how ulsterisation works, lads on the gah board watching the english news 

[the Republic of Ireland]

You won't be wanting a United Ireland with us in the south then?

Fair enough

You see this is where the Free Staters need a reality check. It's not your state.

It's a new Ireland to replace the two rotten states that partition brought about.

You really hate the south don't you,

calling us all free staters

Telling us the Republic of Ireland is not our state

If your indiicative of what even a small percentage of northern "nationalism" feels about the south

We might as well never have even a discussion about a United Ireland

the state is a republic of Ireland, a bastardized one obviously but clearly not the Republic

thankfully the Irish public have more sense than this board who are overwhelmingly partitionist

thinking about money when it comes to national sovereignty 

Be careful Sid, we are watching 

A fresh catch every year Eamonnca!

It's a Boxing Day tradition!

Nordies are too easy 

the sick counties don't have to follow any rules, does everyone not know they are superior 

an absolute sh*tshow since march

a lockdown with no travel restrictions and multiple trips per day to the shop is pointless imo 

fury beats joshua i would think, pure sky hype

Why would they not hype it? Its the fight everyone wants to see. Joshua v impressive tonight against a tough man. That 3rd round was seriously impressive. Hagleresque, Joshua couldn't miss! Fury won't be near as open though.

haha he couldn't miss against a 40 year old journeyman. comparing him to hagler is ridiculous  . fury will beat joshua easy on points, aj is not a boxer as ruiz proved

fury beats joshua i would think, pure sky hype

they are 13 points behind with 2 games in hand and 3 old firm games left. it's hardly impossible to think they win all those games and all the rest, it's scotland ffs 

the rumours are comical tbh

the sick counties is surely the most backward society in the western world, absolutely hopeless 

[if every school was as good as the best school in its hygiene then things might do rightly]

Yes, are we happy to accept that 350k for the sake of these two weeks are still allowed to betray the concept of the lockdown?

It will basically undermine the whole principal surely.

Anything remaining open reduces the effectiveness of the lockdown. However, other places, including the 26 counties have signficantly reduced their rates while keeping schools open.

I'd say schools vary greatly in their efforts, if every school was as good as the best school in its hygiene then things might do rightly.

Sure blame the schools, what about transport too and from, I have seen buses where even the driver isn't wearing a mask.

Bus driver is behind a screen, you'd have seen that if you'd have actually been looking

everyone should be wearing a mask in public at all times,

it's to show that you acknowledge the severity of the situation and care for the plight of others less fortunate,

if we could all do that one simple thing,

hardly that big an ask 

usual sh*tshow in the sick counties, couldn't run a bath ffs

What a performance from DJ

dominant display from the world no 1, never missed a beat all week

quiet in here tonight for a major