The Irish

no need to aaaargh, you

I posted about this initiative before but it’s seriously good

"It's a real feel-good initiative and one of the best things I've ever done."
A fundraising campaign to feed hospital and emergency workers in Ireland has raised more than €330,000 in just ten days.#feedtheheroes #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/paX6r0mKcP

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 26, 2020

lads

most days i pass the aras and look not a sign of them

twont do

The dogs?

well the dogs but id settle for himself i spose

I’m just in awe of his pronunciation

coronaviiiiiiirus

And that poem he wrote was lovely

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I’m legitimately considering buying a box of <classic Irish product that isn’t Tayto>. Is this wise considering I don’t know when I’m home again? Y/n

lyons or barrys

Don’t drink tea. Nah it was Manhattan popcorn but I got as far as checkout before seeing the cost of delivery!

never heard of it

is it like chicago pizza

when there's only one brand of popcorn nobody knows its name

perri

....

i mean do you mean prepopped?

kelkin

i think thats all i got without checkin

Lads come on!

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Perri popcorn is not good, though I will always have a soft spot for the brand after winning a box of their crisps as a child. It doesn’t help that the prepopped popcorn you can buy here is luxury shite that’s not half as good for twice the price.

the professed Manhattan ignorance is a bit odd alright

id know the bag now i see it

less analysis, more contribution there now please

People say the crisps are good but I’ve never seen them on sale anywhere. My school’s shop used to routinely sell out of their popcorn.

Can this Limerick man please do all the governments social distancing announcements from now on? pic.twitter.com/nBL6ZSc3HW

— The Blindboy Podcast (@Rubberbandits) March 27, 2020

Definitely one for the “I love the Irish accent 😍” crowd.

lol

have that then

chrisht a man watches a movie and the whole fuckin country gets shut down

we just got the pay cuts chat from our CEO today, so that was the cherry on top

fucks sake, really sorry to hear NN

best thing is, today was just the teaser. We find out the amount on Monday!

but sure lookit, could be much worse and I'm confident I won't lose my job so can't overly complain

people have been saying lookit far too often for my comfort recently

but lookit, it is what it is

#Breaking: Dept for Foreign Affairs is warning Irish nationals in the US on short-term visas, who risk losing employment, financial security & health care due to the Covid-19 to return to Ireland

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 27, 2020

sorry to hear that nn, hope its short and as painless as possible

It must be admitted that the English people are at present doing their utmost to justify the low estimate in which their rulers hold them.

— James Connolly (@ConnollyEbooks) March 28, 2020

A headline appropriate for any day of any year between 1171 and today. pic.twitter.com/il6F4V7xXd

— Liam Bright (@lastpositivist) April 1, 2020

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

still not worth it tbfh

id swear the mane aul cunt public health nurse who gave it me out the letterkenny road broke it off in the bone

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!

self fp-ed bcz at first glance i read the URL as "bog vaccine"

its the first time the anniversary of the gfa falls on gf btw

There yah have it folks. pic.twitter.com/ijhM8OsHrz

— Fleggy McFleggerson (@FleggyM) April 10, 2020

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.

excellent thread

(xp) Irish Sea has come in useful too, I imagine. Also, no Rangers games, so no need to go to Glasgow every other weekend.

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.

just drop a giant glass dome over them, sorted

same rent a ghoul crowd as have been on the wrong side of everything else this past ten year

is that john waters (not that john waters) in the middle?

And Gemma O next to him

Reading up on him, he seems like a real piece of work, this Waters character... and he has a daughter with Sinead O'Connor!

hes a cunt

as close as we have to a peterson, but id argue worse tbh

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

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

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