There is absolutely no fucking chance, especially with rising cases, that I will be teaching in crowded rooms without students wearing masks. Utterly braindead management.
That €200 million could have been used to buy 30 antigen tests, a pack of 7 KN95 masks for everyone in the country and HEPA filtration systems for every classroom in Ireland. But no, "the great giveaway" trick of giving our own money back while failing on a even grander scale.
An early Christmas present from the Government: everyone’s getting €100 off their electricity bills next year.
It’s €200m which was left unspent due to Covid disruptions this year - but could it be better targeted?
@VirginMediaNews
5:30:
Ryan Tubridy cannot work for RTÉ in any shape, or form, gravy train is up for him. If he does, the licence fee will see a campaign like the water charge protests. That is the state of it. I would be surprised if Patrick Kielty doesn't see this as a poisoned chalice and get out.
@carogennez
@enabel
@hadjalahbib
Time for EU countries to do the correct and expedient thing and start expelling Embassy staff for these continuous outrageous attacks. Trade sanctions, too, and a dissolution to the EU-Israel Association Agreement. There are no other options now. Do the right thing.
Personally I wish him well and hope he recovers, but that is as far as my sympathy will extend. His decisions, at odds with scientific and medical advice, made what happened much more likely. If he can't deal with the consequences of his actions, why should others? Cringey stuff.
It'll be great craic being alive when an asteroid does threaten Earth. We could get Adrian Cummins out to wave a soup ladle at it. Pat Leahy and Mark Paul could tell you that it's nothing to worry about as it is only a lump of metallic rock and that there have been rocks before.
Leading by example, not a mask in sight. This is a close contact of at least 2 positive cases in the past week. He should fucking resign for that alone.
The Taoiseach
@MichealMartinTD
taking no responsibility for the rise in Covid-19 cases despite ignoring the advice from
#Nephet
Instead blaming the 'new variant', despite Cillian De Gascun saying there is no evidence of that strain being found here.
#TodayCB
#coronavirus
How is the National Herd Immunity plan faring? Is >200 deaths a month, and for how long, enough? Or will more victims be required before the plan is deemed to be the biggest failure in public health policy in the 21st century?
Could you imagine being the CMO and giving guidance, reportedly, which in effect results in using Irish citizens as canaries in the coal mine for a mass infection experiment. As if that is in anyway an ethically sound strategy.
Just a little over 6 months ago he told us we were "close" to suppressing the virus, since then another 1,400 people have died. So, is this the second "exit wave", or the first? It would be nice to know.
Philip Nolan says current numbers of Covid cases is not a cause for concern and describes the current level of infections in Ireland as “an exit wave”.
He says NPHET has been stood down and there’s no need for any further surveillance measures to be taken.
@VirginMediaNews
@majedbamya
Just needs some countries to put forward a resolution in the assembly and invoke UN GA Resolution 377 to compel the Security Council and overrule them in the General Assembly. They will get the necessary votes.
@muinteoirmama
@fitterhappierAJ
UK is looking very much like it is starting a new wave of cases, even though they are (allegedly), based on false assumptions, "immune" due to presence of antibodies. The growth of Omicron BA2, which is seemingly more severe and contagious, seems to be behind it.
Ask
@LeonardiBot
This is hilarious considering the Irish Times could so easily replace journalism with utter dross written by Chat GPT and even the editors wouldn't notice the difference.
Just stop buying the Irish Times, stop reading the horseshit, the false balance peddling and the utterly banal nonsense they think worthy of printing. You are just funding a coterie of halfwits.
Oh, wait a minute. Did someone on the Raidío Teilifís Éireann just say that a possible cause of youth crime in Dublin was lockdowns? Amazing if true. One of those show your workings statements if there ever was.
@PoeteLibre
@LibyaLiberty
An amulet of a cartouche of Thutmose III was found there, which predates the First Temple by approximately 500 years. So maybe it is actually Egyptian?
Quite a few journalists in this country have gone past the point of utter farce. Rather than asking questions of Government ministers along the lines of "So, the sixth wave of mass infection will be the charm now, is that it?" and yes it should be asked sardonically. 1/3
@paulinegalway
You would really prefer a state where, rather than legislating for adequate care, the onus is on individuals who may be "highly vulnerable or in very difficult circumstances" to fight for their care in the courts?
In whose lifetime will they get that recourse, ours, or theirs?
@FinchTH
@kprather88
I'd think it prescient that all future politicians are tested out on SimCity first -
"Germs are a problem because they cause sickness. Sick Sims don't go to work and don't shop, resulting in sadness, which is bad for your city."
“I’m not attacking you, I’m just asking a simple question.”
@krishgm
asks an Israeli spokesman whether the government will apologise to the families of seven people killed in a
@WCKitchen
aid convoy, amid reports of repeated strikes on aid agencies.
Fine Gael TDs are exceptionally unimpressive in almost every respect, bar the level of hubris and ability to talk in circles. This is a disastrous government for Ireland.
#rtept
In 1981, aged 25, Paul Graham started his first serious project. The concept was to travel up and down the A1, the 410-mile road that stretches the length of the UK from London to Edinburgh, and capture the people and places he came across.
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Here's some of those images
@rtenews
@MichealMartinTD
Complete and utter nonsense, you have disgraced us internationally. The fact that you can still say this on the day Israel was accused in The Hague of a forced famine on the people in Gaza tells Irish people everything they need to know about you.
Today Brazil recalled its ambassador from Israel 🇧🇷
Whenever a new country has recalled an ambassador, I will provide an updated map below
So far: Bahrain, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Jordan, South Africa and Turkey
So, what is the herd immunity threshold now, it used to be >90%, what are we at now... >300% infection per year?
Some people can't even spell "hubris", but I hope they'll get a permanent gig on the telly, though.
@Liam220262
Totally agree, this is a chance to refresh the whole set up. There are some very good people in RTÉ, both they and the licence payer deserve much better.
@marktigheST
Ah, Broadcaster Niall Boylan and not Scientist Niall Boylan.
Why do TV debate shows not get experts, or someone with any expertise, involved in the discussion?
The HSE: more interested in a farting epidemic than a deadly pandemic. You would be hard pushed to find a more pathetically hopeless organisation anywhere in the World.
Actually when you look at their site, most of it is a verbatim copy of the NHS.
U.S. auto safety regulators have opened an investigation into Tesla’s Model Y SUV after getting complaints that the steering wheels can come off while being driven.
@Channel4News
The British and German police are criminalising Jewish people for protesting against genocide. So, yes, antisemitism is on the rise, but it is State actors who are doing it.
@fitterhappierAJ
@TRyanGregory
It's wild seeing that. Anyone with experience of TNF inhibitors will know that the blackbox warning on them lists increased susceptibility to nearly every disease known to mankind.
"Immunity debt", indeed.
@Tsahkna
@UNRWA
I suppose Estonians can keep believing that they weren't complicit in the last Nazi genocide and that Estonian military units and police battalions weren't willing participants either. 70,000 of your citizens signed up for it. Shame on you then, and more shame now.
The US has been the principal antagonist in endless wars in the Middle East as far back as I can remember. Well 1988 at least. A 35 year cycle of death and destruction and it seemingly will never end. The US is the cause of the levels of barbarity and destruction we see now.
@sinnfeinireland
@kevintoconnor
@MaryLouMcDonald
Then do not send anyone to Washington on St. Patrick's Day. I would even go so far as to suggest you empty chair them!
Let the US press see it, that is what you have to do.
Note to Irish politicians: If you aren't calling for immediate trade sanctions and asking the entire Israeli diplomatic mission to leave Ireland and withdrawing ours, then you will never be elected again in Ireland. Maybe you would in the US, or the UK, but never in Ireland.
I am assuming some of those economists in this weekend's papers bet big on vaccines being the quick way out. They probably now wish their degrees were in an actual science, too. They might figure it all out after the next lockdown.
What happened to the 5G people, are they okay? Surely now would be the perfect time for a 5G nanospiderbot-induced tarantist dance craze to happen?
Where is the commitment? Disappointing...
@PresidentIRE
As far as I see it the rest of the world would be less likely to offer any support to military actions by Trump. The Democrats and their press would be all over it, too.
We might even see the word genocide used in the US press come January.
It is amazing how almost every time he opens his mouth you get to see what brand of unbridled idiot is contained within his suit. Hasn't met one target or goal ever, even the ones his own department has set. Utterly hopeless, as are the fools who keep voting for him.
🤡Darragh's Disaster
Housing Minister slammed over 'have ye no homes to go to' quip at launch of charity's report
Many of the reporters were young and middle-aged renters who do not have homes to call their own.
#HousingCrisis
For all of the Irish fans of "rules-based order". Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh at the ICJ has gone worldwide. The most significant Irish person in the world now by a huge margin. She has humbled us all and she has also humiliated our political leaders, maybe morally too! Who knows...
"On average 247 Palestinians are being killed & are at risk of being killed each day. Many of them literally blown to pieces. They include 48 mothers each day, 2 every hour. And over 117 children." From the v powerful South Africa ICJ closing statement: