@brian reid: Ireland only being drip fed with vaccines, it will take years.

@brian reid: it is moving quote rapidly

@Máirtín Ó Conghaile: no it is not

@brian reid: We have one of the highest rate in the EU per head of population and thats how the amounts you get are supplied.

@Michael Maher: ah give over. comments like that are so frustrating. Do nothing to help anyone or anything

@Michael Garvey: check our stats compared to the rest of the EU and then apologise

@Paul Furey: Germany and France are actively buying up unused Eastern bloc allocations, macron going after Sputnik, Hungary unilaterally approves it…Ireland doing ok admininistering the drip feed quantities arriving here, but we should be beating the bushes internationally seeking more…Nethayahu was on the phone to the CEO of Pfizer in the early hours weeks back…Meehole just not aggressive enough… ultimately i believe the UK will allocate a few milion doses to us, after they are finished wrapping things up in June or July

@Gary Kearney: you need to get out more often

@Mary Oliver: more virtue signalling

@Marty Mc.: by the end of the week

@Marty Mc.: The whole country by Thursday. ;)

@Finn Faulkner: very disheartening for people who are self isolating our family have not seen each other. People are doing their best while others are not following the restrictions. How come numbers so high in Wexford down one day then up again the next. It is a horrible time for all. No definite information about when people will get the vaccine.

@Finn Faulkner: how do you know? You out and about?

@Alanna Murphy: Maybe through the magic of a window he can see ??

@ger barry ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: perhaps he is a front line healthcare worker and sees the volumes whilst commuting?

@Michael Maher: Why the name calling?

@Dixieblue: from their twitter they are a piano teacher so I guess not

RE: “DixieBlue: @Alanna Murphy: Maybe through the magic of a window he can see ??”
@Alanna Murphy: True. I’ve never seen a piano near a window!

Piano players have windows too. Often, even close to their piano at home.

@Alanna Murphy: oh so piano teachers can’t see through glass? Ah right so. *rolls eyes*

@Dixieblue: I replied to the wrong person, it was meant for the person who assumed they were a front line healthcare worker. Lol.

@SprintFitz: but they were on their way out anyway……Covid can’t eliminate death from old age

@Damien Grogan: Do you ever read what you type? Have you any decency at all? Those are 35 grieving families. They may have lived many more years if not for contracting the virus and developing the disease. If you go on in real life the way you do here, how many people have you caused the deaths of? You are a sickening example of a human being!!!

@Damien Grogan: disgusting comment.

@Alanna Murphy: Which came about as someone assumed he was not.

@Damien Grogan: total Koc!!

@Marc Power: the vacinne numbers are released twice a week, rather than daily

@Marc Power: I don’t see incompetence, just a worldwide shortage of vacines.

@Marc Power: The incompetence, do you mean the ability to be very near the top of the leader board for rate of vaccination in the world. That incompetence.

@Florence Bass Abbott: he has a right to comment we don’t live in a police state yet,, I think!

@Liam O Connor: Don’t bait the thought police. it’s a lose lose every time.

@Florence Bass Abbott: who do you think you are?
You don’t like my comment sod off

@Dixieblue: you can be a sheep if you want and accept this nonsense but I am entitled to comment on this system if I want

@John Fahy: about 50,000 too many people won’t get the benefit of this vaccine tho. Plus you’re quoting jabs there not fully vaccinated… and the way they’re experimenting on the time between doses is remarkable behaviour

@John Fahy: less than 1% of uk population had been vaccinated, 11 million have the first of 2 doses . They also have over double our death rate .

@John Fahy: How many of those have had 2 doses? I hope Priti hasn’t been keeping count.

@bmul: Maths certainly wasn’t your strong subject at school.

@Leonard Barry: why ?

@Cian Nolan: it doesn’t matter it where they finish that counts

@Brian Lilly: better priti than Stephen or Sir Tony.

@Leonard Barry: Why don’t you use Whatsapp? Seeing as you two know one another……

such smugness, almost ironic considering how that train of thought most certainly did not come from a well fitted attic ;)

*not perceived as toxic!

Do you have one on you? Id happily take it seems as its been trialed and approved in multiple other countries instead of waiting for Brussels dragging their feet and making a balls of this rollout.

@Teresa O’Halloran: With that Sputnik one you could end up on the moon after a jab.

@Teresa O’Halloran: It has already been well tested and proven to work

@David Lee: Trump said bleach worked should we have tried that too. Russia, now there are a crowd not to trust

@David Lee: Dragging their heels, like doing proper tests and terrible things like that

@Hugo Bugo: in terms of public health advise it is akin to international best practice however government policy emanating from this advise is of course questionable. Have a good weekend Mr Bugo

@Scott Crossfield: While case numbers are dropping by 6 to 9% per day according to Prof Philip Nolan, you may have a point. Some hairdressers / barbers operating back door – Newstalk Hard Shoulder this evening.

@Scott Crossfield:
We weren’t doing close contact before so we must have been missing a fair few…

The Deaths number while awful is an improvement… These are more hard number…

Hopefully we get a big drop over the next few weeks…

As I see it now we will get some release in March but not significant. No Schools or construction…. Maybe relax the 5K limit…

I say the big reduction will be April the 12th. Schools back, Construction back and hopefully no universities on site… On Site Universities was a killer in this and it was a disgrace that they were even contemplated…

@ed w: Bernadette isn’t talking garbage, both of you are making valid points, and it is the combination of all those things.

@Scott Crossfield: It’s still winter..cases be high until April. Not everyone is in a position to just sit at home. Lots of people have to help vunerable family members so they need to go into households. It has to be noted a large portion of the cases are transmitted in hospitals and care homes. People need to stop pointing the finger and focus on their own life.

@Joe Moore: It is essential that people help vulnerable family members, and hospitals and care homes are essential. It is OK for people to point fingers at people who are spreading the virus in a non-essential context.

@John Hazelnut: I don’t understand what it achieves though John.

@Joe Moore: It doesn’t achieve much, people are just venting and feel better for it. I personaly hate all the finger pointing and blaming going on, this virus will have changed people forever.

@Joe Moore: Hospitals, etc., are essential. If fingers are pointed at non-essential risks of spreading the virus, such as holiday travel abroad, or people going beyond a 5km limit, Government can act to suppress this non-essential risks, and they have done so already, in order to suppress the spread of the virus.

@Joe Moore: The virus needs to be suppressed as fast as possible, and the burden should not be loaded only on businesses, but private individuals as well.

@ed w: And it appears there are alarming spikes in some areas where Covid regulation limits to gatherings at funerals and afterwards were openly flouted.

@Bernadette Luby Walsh: name the unnecessary shops , because I’m sure you need food, you may need medical supplies ,plumbing and electrical items because a tap or light fitting doesn’t know there a covid virus in community, people need petrol and diesel to run their cars for necessary trips and need tyre and mechanical repairs for these vehicles, again your vehicle doesn’t know when not to break down, a small bit of thought before the throwaway remark please.

@Cowboy Paddy: schools will be going back on a phased basis starting this month as stated by the government..why would they possibly wait for over two more months? Figures should be in the around 200 to 300 by the end of this month as predicted by Philip Nolan… construction is now 50% more open than the first lock down and will be fully back in early March…please refrain from posting miserable nonsense and depressing people who are holding out hope of some semblance of normality returning in the next 3 or 4 weeks

@Charlie Murphy: I’m afraid I would doubt that we will be down to 200 cases per day within the next 3 weeks.

This is NOT at all like March 2020 total lockdown.

@joe doyle: It does and hopefully it gets out. It also gives confidence that they’re really getting to grips with the virus.

@Vonvonic: this is good news. While vaccines are the first line of defence in the fight against Covid19 no vaccine is 100% effective so we’re going to need therapeutics to treat it for the foreseeable future. If this one works its really good news.

@Gary Kearney: Amazing how many people have died because of so called mistakes by unaccountable crooked people in the HSE. Ireland is far from perfect when it comes to human rights.

@Pseud O’Nym: or the fact that every cowboy sings his sad sad song…

@Luminary: and every night has its morn…