A headline appropriate for any day of any year between 1171 and today. pic.twitter.com/il6F4V7xXd— Liam Bright (@lastpositivist) April 1, 2020
― silby, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
looks like we're going to be grand lads
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-more-striking-evidence-bcg-vaccine-might-protect-against-covid-19-1.4222110
― Number None, Monday, 6 April 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
still not worth it tbfh
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Monday, 6 April 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
id swear the mane aul cunt public health nurse who gave it me out the letterkenny road broke it off in the bone
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Monday, 6 April 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
I assumed the UK had a mandatory BCG vaccination programme but apparently that was only from 1953 to 2005 - still covers an awful lot of the population!
― Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Monday, 6 April 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
self fp-ed bcz at first glance i read the URL as "bog vaccine"
― mark s, Monday, 6 April 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
its the first time the anniversary of the gfa falls on gf btw
― plax (ico), Friday, 10 April 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link
There yah have it folks. pic.twitter.com/ijhM8OsHrz— Fleggy McFleggerson (@FleggyM) April 10, 2020
― calzino, Sunday, 12 April 2020 11:53 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure if everyone's seen the Lainey Doyle thread:
I don't understand the British media. I really, really don't.Basic things: Ireland and the UK started this pandemic with roughly the same number of ICU beds (6.5 per 100,000 for Ireland, 6.6 per 100,000 in the UK).If anything, the UK was slightly better off. pic.twitter.com/owhHMUZccU— Lainey Doyle (@laineydoyle) April 12, 2020
Something interesting but unsurprising in the comments is someone saying that the North has followed the Republic rather than GB, and is doing better because of it.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 12 April 2020 12:14 (four years ago) link
excellent thread
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Sunday, 12 April 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link
(xp) Irish Sea has come in useful too, I imagine. Also, no Rangers games, so no need to go to Glasgow every other weekend.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 April 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
What a bunch of fucking idiots. pic.twitter.com/WIkCLD6NIc— Daithi K. (@tvcritics) April 21, 2020
there's been a bit of Irish anti-lockdown idiocy it seems.
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
just drop a giant glass dome over them, sorted
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
same rent a ghoul crowd as have been on the wrong side of everything else this past ten year
― steer calmer (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
is that john waters (not that john waters) in the middle?
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
And Gemma O next to him
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
Reading up on him, he seems like a real piece of work, this Waters character... and he has a daughter with Sinead O'Connor!
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
hes a cunt
― steer calmer (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
as close as we have to a peterson, but id argue worse tbh
― steer calmer (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
this guy has been very good imo
Some interesting weaponizing of Ireland's death rate going on by very ignorant people."Ireland have the 9th highest death rate per capita".Do we now.— Danny Boy (@Care2much18) April 22, 2020
― steer calmer (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 10:00 (four years ago) link
short story
we're doing much better than it looks on death per capita than the various comparisons would seem to show
though we wont really know anything til next year earliest
― steer calmer (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 10:01 (four years ago) link
what do we make of the government's current "stop being naughty or we'll extend the lockdown" approach?
tbh they're going to struggle to keep people in check for the bank holiday weekend let alone beyond the 5th
― Number None, Monday, 27 April 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
i think it leaves them a little wriggle either way
experts will advise a lockdown for further with some limited exceptions
tabloids and twitter will demand freedom
they dont need to show cards for now but prob wise to flag that both options are open
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Monday, 27 April 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
Could do with a rainy spell for next weekend.Been really nice all week.& people are out using the public furniture and exercise machines around the park. Playing in the adventure playground.So if there is another wave imminent will they continue to try to continue the isolation.
― Stevolende, Monday, 27 April 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/lockdown-extended-for-another-two-weeks-for-the-vast-majority-39162734.html
― Number None, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 08:06 (four years ago) link
makes sense. groups will need to be exposed in sections i think
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 08:51 (four years ago) link
Two weeks from friday seems to be a bit ambitious and reducing the social distancing rules seems a bit counterproductive.I thought there wasn't any guaranteed immunity from having been through a bout of covid either.So surprised by that news.thought this was going to go oon for a while longer whatever.Aren't there going to be a load more cases of infection after the coming weekend anyway, which would presuambly only be showing theirfull blown infection in 2 weeks time.So sounds a little premature doesn't it?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 10:05 (four years ago) link
How puppets work. pic.twitter.com/W9ocR99z8B— Daithi K. (@tvcritics) April 29, 2020
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
Ionanist is such a good term.I take it it's always used of somebody else rather than by the individual themself?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link
why is every man on irish tv a hotel manager?
― plax (ico), Monday, 18 May 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
https://irishboston.org/images/march/ryan-tubridy.jpg
"i'll have dearbhla add those 'additional expenses' (cocaine!) to your bill"
― plax (ico), Monday, 18 May 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
this is the basic vibe on literally every rte program
― plax (ico), Monday, 18 May 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link
Sometimes I think about how there was an Irish laundry firm called Swastika Laundry which predated the Nazis rise to power but continued to use the name and distinctive logo well after WWII, up until 1987. pic.twitter.com/sB6vvjnyFr— Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) May 19, 2020
― calzino, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
In his May 2007 interview with Jason O'Toole, former Minister for Health Cowen admitted to smoking marijuana, saying,
Anyone who went to the UCD bar in the '70s that didn't get a whiff of marijuana would be telling you a lie. I would say there were a couple of occasions when it was passed around – and, unlike President Clinton, I did inhale! There wasn't a whole lot in it really – (it was like) a Sweet Afton, as a 10-year-old, under a railway bridge on a rainy day, in small town Ireland in the late '60s. I certainly got more enjoyment out of a few pints.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 23 May 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
I found it. The worst take. pic.twitter.com/oKLt7YnPnU— Liam Hogan (@Limerick1914) May 31, 2020
and the replies particularly this thread
COME OUT, YE BLACK AND TANSCOME OUT, DEBATE ME MAN TO MAN— 🐟🎄The Christmas Fish🎄🐟 (@TheXmasFish) May 31, 2020
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 1 June 2020 10:39 (three years ago) link
Nelson Mandela founded the armed wing of the ANC, you dingbat. https://t.co/WGuad7OKLU— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) June 1, 2020
reminds me of this, when history is Duntified by moronic libs!
― calzino, Monday, 1 June 2020 10:47 (three years ago) link
Fuck offfffffhttps://www.thejournal.ie/uk-court-family-irish-phrase-grave-headstone-5112813-Jun2020/
UK church asks family to translate Irish phrase on mum's grave amid concerns it could be 'seen as political'Judge Stephen Eyre said non-Gaeilgeoirs might think the phrase was “some form of slogan”.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
WTF? Plus a Church Court? Oh, right, it's Church of England.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
absolute fuckin shitshow
― plax (ico), Thursday, 16 July 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
I mean I'd never bet against it, but was there something in particular...?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 16 July 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
Your man from labour falling asleep during a vote on workers rights wasn’t it
― scampos mentis (gyac), Thursday, 16 July 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
Imagine earning a TDs salary to go in & fall asleep at work. https://t.co/F8254sDK0Y— Daithi K. (@tvcritics) July 16, 2020
this?
― calzino, Thursday, 16 July 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
oh no I think that is US, but I got it off an Irish poster!
― calzino, Thursday, 16 July 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
oh no scratch that it is Eamon Ryan from the green party and some other twat
― calzino, Thursday, 16 July 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-15/apple-wins-eu-court-fight-over-14-9-billion-tax-bill
― plax (ico), Friday, 17 July 2020 05:42 (three years ago) link
Fg are landlords and thugs
Which fucking prick wrote this????https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/the-guardian-view-on-irish-politics-an-enviable-beauty-is-born
The new nation is the Irish Republic.
Before Brexit and Mr Johnson, Ireland might have taken an informal cue on handling the pandemic from its larger and richer neighbour.
Where is this leading? The coalition has a clear majority. All three parties voted decisively for it.
The post-pandemic reopening of pubs this week has had to be pushed back because of a spike in cases.
This is nevertheless a salutary moment. Step by step, Ireland’s old nationalist politics, shaped by Britain in so many ways, have moved on.
Ireland is prospering by doing things more rationally and in ways that are firmly rooted in the state’s membership of multilateral institutions. The many in these islands who yearn for Britain to do likewise can only look on as, in Ireland, an enviable beauty is born.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
Deems (bless his soul) would've thrown that report straight into this thread
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
#yearnforbritain
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
Lol, was wondering when that guardian article would show up here!
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link