The Irish

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

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

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.

https://www.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/lockdown-extended-for-another-two-weeks-for-the-vast-majority-39162734.html

makes sense. groups will need to be exposed in sections i think

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?

How puppets work. pic.twitter.com/W9ocR99z8B

— Daithi K. (@tvcritics) April 29, 2020

Ionanist is such a good term.
I take it it's always used of somebody else rather than by the individual themself?

why is every man on irish tv a hotel manager?

https://irishboston.org/images/march/ryan-tubridy.jpg

"i'll have dearbhla add those 'additional expenses' (cocaine!) to your bill"

this is the basic vibe on literally every rte program

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

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.

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 TANS
COME OUT, DEBATE ME MAN TO MAN

— 🐟🎄The Christmas Fish🎄🐟 (@TheXmasFish) May 31, 2020

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!

Fuck offfffff
https://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”.

WTF? Plus a Church Court? Oh, right, it's Church of England.

absolute fuckin shitshow

I mean I'd never bet against it, but was there something in particular...?

Your man from labour falling asleep during a vote on workers rights wasn’t it

Imagine earning a TDs salary to go in & fall asleep at work. https://t.co/F8254sDK0Y

— Daithi K. (@tvcritics) July 16, 2020

this?

oh no I think that is US, but I got it off an Irish poster!

oh no scratch that it is Eamon Ryan from the green party and some other twat

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-15/apple-wins-eu-court-fight-over-14-9-billion-tax-bill

Fg are landlords and thugs