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@Becky Blight: another make it up as they go Job in regards to regulations! Quick enough to set up checkpoints and annoy decent people, but not those oxygen thieves
@Becky Blight: maybe it was 10 gatherings of 10 people or simply 100 people who happen to be in the one place (being facetious). Unless a gathering has been specifically defined as a legal term, it will be hard to enforce. Like in restaurants. You can’t have a function, but you can book 6 separate tables of 6 which are adjacent to each other
@Shinners Abú: it’s like this the Garda,s hands are tied .If you appeal to some people to lower the tone and do the right thing and they tell you to F. O and it’s not actually law well what can you do
@Becky Blight: The 15 people limit is set in law in S.I 326 of 2020 if I remember correctly. However, this is an S.I taken by the minister for health under the Health Act of 2020, and it is not related to the Government’s Plan. Which itself is advice and therefore not enforceable. So bottom line is, 15 people is enforceable under S.I 326, not under the health plan. But as usual they’re spoofing and probably have no idea what they can or can’t enforce. Sure half the government couldn’t tell you what’s law and what isn’t.
@Ths Fer: Sorry everyone. My bad. S.I 352 of 2020 replaces S.I 326 and specifically sets out restrictions for Dublin. The Gards can in fact actually enforce restricting Dubliners from leaving Dublin and people from other counties from coming to Dublin (Par 13). This S.I expires on 10/10/2020. In this S.I if you read it, “relevant county” means Dublin and “relevant person” means Dubliner. Turns out it’s not just advice, it’s actual law or should be presumed to be unless reading the latest statutory instrument tells you otherwise.
@Becky Blight: it’s not a breach to attend. It’s a breach to organise an event which doesnt comply with the guidelines.That’s why the Gardai are looking for the organisers.
I wouldn’t be fond of the drink now but when I do go at it I do go at it very hard I do have 45 pints and then I will have a packet of crisps or a packet of peanuts and then I’d be half dead anyway so I’d absolutely engulf the toilet bowl with the full power of my bowls. Anyway the next days Maureen would have the fry on and I’d have 15 or 20 sausages, and then I’d go at the drink again. Thered be no shtopping me at all.
If a gathering like this is not considered a breach. Then we are all in deep trouble. The government punishes the compliant while letting the non compliant do as they please.
@Karl: I couldn’t visit my ill mother in hospital. My wife’s gran passed we hadn’t seen her in person in months. Not all punishment involves garda. These all relate to numbers climbing because of this sort of fu behaviour.
And what about the 50+ group of teenagers in blackrock having fun pushing each over and group hugs with not a mask or garda in sight today? or the packed canals i drove past from work filled of people having drinks and a picnic? It’s not like everyone in the city knows they are there, well apart from every Guard it seems. So checkpoints on the roads. Hands up who has seen people partying and drinking in the middle of the roads all day?
This is why Dublin has been moved to level 3. It is unfortunate that these people are selfish and lack intelligence. They don’t care if they get the virus. They don’t care if they pass the virus on. They have no compassion, no empathy, and not a brain cell among them. They need to be locked up for their own safety, but more importantly for the safety of others. So why did the Gardai disperse them to further spread the virus instead of locking them up for fourteen days?
Local Shinner TD ‘Snotty’ when asked on Morning Ireland about personal responsibility of those attending the ‘large gathering’ he ignored the question and took off on a rant blaming the Guards. He is going to see the Commissioner, GSOC et al. about it. No point in laying any of the blame on your constituency voters. Shinners have history when it comes to blaming the Guards.
@Mary Cahill: Why dont you actually have a pop at the current government parties for not legislating properly in order to allow police to do their jobs? Doesnt suit your agenda. The current “guidelines” are a mess but let’s blame the opposition for this.
@Gerard Smith:
You are right. We don’t know whether these are restrictions, advice or legal requirements. That goes without saying. However I was commenting on a Sinn Fein TD who refused to agree that it was the personal responsibility of everyone, whatever the age, to behave so as not to endanger anybody else. Instead the Shinner went for the populist option and carried on a rant against the garda. The Garda may have a case to answer but Snodig was not interested in the facts just votes.
@Ross: they’d never be able to pay then they’d end up in court and give a sob story broken home drug & alcohol abuse get community service fail to show end up in court again get sentenced to 3 months turn up at mount joy sign a form get a meal and bus money home or taxi. About the best thing to happen these people who had the party is they get Covid and suffer badly but survive then become advocates of lockdown and spread the message not the virus
@Ross: Totally agree. In other countries people who break the rules must be fined. It’s when people’s pockets are hit the rule breakers might see sense. We need to make a law first and warn the public that there will be fines for those who break the restrictions. The UK have now imposed fines. Other counties in Europe have done the same. Why is Ireland not doing the same!!
I’m sick of seeing that phrase “only oxygen thieves” thrown in. It implies that anyone you personally can’t get on with, who dresses too casually, deserves to die – especially if they have no money. I thought we were a republic, not a monarchy at the whim of an autocrat. Apparently we’re all paying customers now or dead men.
Should have arrested every single one of the little runts, make them spend the rest of the pandemic behind bars for their complete and utter selfishness
@Adam J: As a society we should appreciate young adults who help generate herd immunity by living normal lives and keeping society afloat. Thank you, thank you, thank you. When people throw misguided complaints at you, falsely claiming that you are endangering others, remember that the opposite is true.
@Gary Kearney: okay. It’s an alternative opinion. I’m not sure how the Irish approach is going to work all winter into the future like this. So when i see other opinions i would like to think NPHET would consider them. Herd immunity is not what is needed but immunity in general population that stops the virus surging again, this is what Sweden appears to have.
For all the “my rights” keyboard warriors, this reckless behaviour is the reason we need to legislate to make breaching the regulations a prosecutable offence. It’s so easy to complain that “your rights” are paramount but unfortunately too many forget that their responsibilities are the flip side of their rights.
As the landlord, what will the council do? As the council starts buying its way into more and more private housing developments around the city, people are watching, warily.
“No breaches of regulations detected”..,,, what an absolute joke. A 100 people squeezed into a small outdoor football pitch. If regulations weren’t been breached then why were they asked to disperse.
There were NO police at this gig. They’re too afraid to go into the flats – absolute drivel that the Gardai responded to this! This went on until 5am and it happens every weekend.
Probably un-PC to call this lot what we all know they are. From birth they contribute nothing positive to society and blame everyone else for their situation. When it comes to a pandemic they raise their ugly heads again and make a bad situation worse.
@Owen:
I am amazed that off licences were not closed when pubs were closed as well as the licensed sections of supermarkets. It would cut down on the availablity of alcohol and restrict house parties.
Ah yes The “Up De Flats” lot showing true colours as always. Law onto themselves. Irony being in this very complex they’ve Irish flags “thanking” The HSE frontline workers everywhere. Hypocrites, most of them anyway.
Once again our boys in blue leave it late in catching someone deliberately breaking the law, if they reacted when it was happening they wouldn’t have to try and find them.
The government, if they were any use, should declare a state of emergency and use the army in a support role. Perhaps if they tackle gangs who care for no one other than themselves with water cannon or tear gas they wouldn’t be so quick to go to these so called parties. There is absolutely no point in ministers wringing their hands and appealing to these baboons to behave responsibly. They don’t know what responsible behaviour is.
@Barry Delaney: Putting the army on the streets would mean the civil power have failed, they haven’t. Putting troops on the streets is a dangerous option, look at the North, when Jim Callaghan put the British army on the streets it was to protect the catholic population and looked what happened afterwards.
@Kevin50: OK Kevin, let’s not bother with that idea. The Gardai can continue driving around the area and doing nothing until there are thousands of cases a day and the health service is totally overwhelmed with the elderly population being wiped out but that wouldn’t be an emergency would it?
That’s why these people have these sort of gatherings cos they know there is no consequences for them. The government are are joke. Bring in fines to anyone that attends and jail the people who organise. That will soften their cough.
Only just read the article now and it would seem that it was a high profile drug party and guards arrived 5 hour after being called. Well done lads, you make us proud! Keep focused on your silly checkpoints where you have no powers rather than putting in some effort where required. Avoid real policing at all costs, a shambles like the Govt and NPHET. With these making and implementing the guidelines what can possibly go wrong!!!!!!
@Liam Crowe: Good luck getting cash out of them. Sure after buying lotto tickets, ciggies and drink there’s no cash left to pay fines.I feel sorry for the non partying residents that have to put up with that. There is probably non stop fireworks too.
Surely no where in the constitution it states no more than 15 people outside together. So this rule is only a recommendation. It would be scary if the powers that be can rush in such “laws”
Remember VAT & universal social tax were meant to be temporary. I’m not condoning 100 people party but aware of rushed in draconian laws with not an eye lid batted by the public.
Under what law are the guards allowed to move people on or arrest?
@delmatey: Do some people have amnesia or something? I keep seeing this argument posted as some kind of defence for the Oliver Bond party, implying that the criticism is classism… But if you cast your mind back a few weeks ago to the golfgate scandal, you will remember that the whole country was fuming about it, even more so than about this..so much so in fact that we sacrificed having the trade portfolio in Europe to hold people to account.. I feel huge sympathy for the decent people in the Oliver Bond flats who have to live amongst the toe rags who organised this party but those that organised this party and attended fully deserve to be slated! Even if there wasn’t a pandemic, the mess alone that they left behind them was selfish and disgusting!
Covid aside is this event not illegal? Noise pollution? Drug use? Health and safety concerns? Private property? Unaccompanied Minors? Drinking in a public place? Surely cannot just have a large event like this unless have some kind of licence to do so besides the drugs?
The cops are responsible for enforcing public order.
According to the law.
The messers in Kildare St. need to give them the legal mandate to deal with feral youths.
No quarter for social ignorami, the responsible citizens health depends on it.
Now.
As a society we should appreciate young adults who help generate herd immunity by living normal lives and keeping society afloat. Thank you, thank you, thank you. When people throw misguided complaints at you, falsely claiming that you are endangering others, remember that the opposite is true.
@Rory Mac Daibhéid: so while we are waiting for all the young people to become immune how many older people will die. Nice of you to think of yourself.
With flu pandemics, herd immunity is usually attained after two to three epidemic waves, each interrupted by the typical seasonality of influenza virus and more rarely by interventions, with the help of cross-protection through immunity to previously encountered influenza viruses, and vaccines when available10. For COVID-19, which has an estimated infection fatality ratio of 0.3–1.3%1,5, the cost of reaching herd immunity through natural infection would be very high, especially in the absence of improved patient management and without optimal shielding of individuals at risk of severe complications.
@paul mccoy: it’s called an opinion from an Professor from Harvard.
I can’t predict the future and neither can you so not sure why you think I would be happy for people to die.
The Article is very clear it that less people would die. Maybe try read it first. It’s not my expert advice and it’s clearly not considered by NPHET and maybe , just maybe you might like to think they’ve considered it!?
@Rory Mac Daibhéid: Herd immunity has been debunked many times as you have a chance of getting reinfected, and on top of that you can spread it recklessly to your nearest and dearest without realising. Just don’t do it.
@Paul Cunningham: debunked how, we don’t know or can’t predict the next few months. I would not be reckless so need to suggest that . I kind of think young people picking up the virus at this time of year could be a good things, its a theory. Also it’s not my decision to approve government policy. I would like to think that NPHET might consider we need to follow the immunity for general population, not herd immunity , model to stop surges. This is believe is the Swedish approach. So i don’t think its reckless. It also suggests its safer for vunerable people to do this. Anders Tegnell would explain better.
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