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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. #40 YEARS ON: On the 40th anniversary of the Stardust disaster, we take a look at the enduring effects of this tragedy in north Dublin.
2. #GARDA COMMISSIONER: Drew Harris has said the gardaí do not “regard a dentist’s appointment in Tenerife as being a reasonable excuse to travel”.
3. #WRAP UP WARM: There are a number of weather warnings in place around the country today on what’s set to be a windy, unsettled weekend.
4. #BIG DAY: Hoteliers have suggested a guest limit for weddings based on the size of venue to allow for social distancing.
5. #COVID-19: There were 23 deaths and 921 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed last night.
6. #CATCH UP: With Senators set to vote on whether to convict Donald Trump, here’s a round-up of what happened at the impeachment trial this week.
7. #PANDEMIC IMPACT: People with eating disorders have been presenting more unwell since the start of the pandemic.
8. #CRUMLIN: Gardaí last night renewed their appeal after an armed robbery at a Dublin post office.
9. #RUGBY: This morning, the42.ie takes a look at the RTÉ panel that became synonymous with Irish rugby in the 2000s.
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Everyone having a moan about Dublin not being locked down..little do they know that unfortunately it would result in possibly an extra 1 billion of added debt to the taxpayer
@MarkQ: you have a source for that or did you just pull €1b out of your hoop?
@RogersRabbit: seeing as Dublin pulls in 73billion alone, it would far exceed 1 billion if Dublin was in lockdown!
@MarkQ: so it’s ok to lockdown other counties but not Dublin? The government day after day give a big speal about saving lives but won’t do shit when it comes to Dublin.
@MarkQ: if it was about money, we wouldn’t be in the state we’re in.
What a joke of a taoiseach he is, I suppose he has to get permission from eamonn Ryan first , this is my third time trying to post this comment, good auld journal looking after their masters!!
@Liam O Connor: he was trying to but Ryan was snoozing!!
@Liam O Connor: it was a class comment, thank god you persevered.
This government are a shambles. A week ago Donnelly said there will be no Dublin lockdown. Today Micheál is like “well maybe tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ “
@Jimmy Fagan: you’d expect a fluid approach with case numbers fluctuating day by day. The reaction as to be agile and fluid.
Carve dublin out and push it over to the UK. Half the city thinks it is from there anyway!
@T Dawg: stay in your back ward bog and don’t bother coming to Dublin then.
@SB: I’m from London. A place you try to emulate. There’s a good lad!
@T Dawg: Well toddle on back to London then cockney boy, Dublin is nothing like that dum p in the slightest.
@SB: such angry little people.
@T Dawg: back under your bridge troll!!
@SB: you are very insecure about your city and quick to anger. Perhaps something you should work on.
@T Dawg: how come your comment posted in the 1970s took 50 years to appear ?
@T Dawg: don’t know a single person that thinks they are from the UK
@T Dawg: Emulate are you having a laugh. We would have to be ina ahell of a bad way to be like that cesspit
@Warren Mcdermott: What is the first thing you learn to explain to be across the world, English no Irish and then they smile at you
@Gary Kearney: you are butchering our beautiful language there. Why do you not use your poetic native tongue?
@T Dawg: blank profile. Says it all.
@T Dawg: I’m born and bred Dublin, I have never ever met anyone who thinks they’re from the UK?
I think a measured approach is a wise decision in order to keep businesses going, maybe curfews could be an alternative
What did we do to deserve such a downright incompetent, shocking, clueless government who have presided over disaster after disaster and expect people to take them seriously, without question the worst government of all time.
@SB: voted
@SB: Leo and his bunch of rookies were worse to be fair.
@Willie: they were bad but they weren’t in the same league as this farcical coalition
@SB: yet on the other hand you are saying that the government have controlled the number of deaths here, we are doing fantastically on the fatality front and open everything up. Which is it? Have they done a great job in protecting us from this virus, which was the goal, or not?
@GrumpyAulFella: no I wouldn’t at all as they have made an absolute mess of the whole thing, ludricious nonsensical restrictions, people just cannot take them seriously anymore, they’ll be decimated come the next election.
@SB: by who? The party that has disappeared since the pandemic began, sent it’s leadership the funeralgate and took no accountability for it and had a councillor partying in Lanzarote while at the same time gingerly calling for heads to roll due to no social distancing in Clifden? Also, you keep saying that death rates are low and we should open up. Who has laid down the rules that have managed to keep our date rate in check? What are your own alternative guidelines to achieve the same result?
@GrumpyAulFella: ah a sinn fein hater now your showing your true colours here, enough said!!
Open the Dubs
Brace yourself Dublin!! Winter is coming!
@Jonnie Marre: Well it is September.
@Jonnie Marre: you watching game of thrones again
It would be advisable that the government ceases their veiled threats. It’s intolerable.
@Isabel Oliveira: what threats?
Lock it down
@Galwaygogo: and does that mean theyll come to galway then….??
Lock the goverment down,better option.
Is mehole s time up yet
“Living with Covid” is a completely totally wrong message to be leading with in relation to the health of our nation. How did it come to this. What fool coined that phrase. Why would any politician ever dare use it. We cannot coexist with a dangerous virus. We must avoid it. Please change the messaging to “Avoiding Covid”. Living with it has resulted in nobody social distancing because they think we need to “live with it” as if it did not exist.
@Imagine !: their PR firm informed them it sounded friendly and fluffier.
That colour coded system is also consultant 101; if you give a consultancy firm a problem without a real solution they’ll eventually recommend colour coding something as a solution.
@Imagine !: It’s not dangerous anymore. Zero deaths day after day. Time to address the real virus…….FEAR
Martin or Monty Burns?
Can’t tell from the picture.
Every country in the world put their people in to lock-down, with the plan, that this only had a 3 week incubation period, and it would dissapear, it hasn’t, but who is spreadining it, we have essencial services, from the Health departments,food industry, postral, and delivery personal, somewhere along the line, some of their staff, carried this virus, and kept speading it. it’s the only logical expalnation. 90% of the deaths have been in eldeley people, whether in a hospital or nursing home, 70% or more had under lying illinesses. we live with the Flu, on a yearly basis, and have nearly a thousand deaths a year, due to it directly, never mind underling issues, we haven’t even doubled that yet.
As regards social distancing, you get on the Dart or Luas, people, have taken up the designated seats, so many stand at the doors,afraid to sit down, now, so there is as many gathered at the doors as there are sitting, there is no such thing as social distancing, when they get off, particularly at the end stop, you can, nearly have a hundred or more trying to get through the exits, all at the one time, and from both sides of the platform. so it ain’t working.
@Peter Dunwoody: while the stats you give to flu deaths are those for a bad year, the average estimate is 200 the 500 annually (HSE website), and wechave already breached the higher estimate.
Worst tioseach since John Brutal.
@Chris Jordan: Leo is giving him a run for his money.
I was in Dublin city centre last week, it’s so quiet in there, nobody around Grand Canal Dock or Grafton Street areas, further restrictions would finally kill off whatever hope businesses have in there
Bulls**t
Gathering of thousands and thousands of people outside the Journey office in Dublin today with no masks on.
Is the journal the new RTE for fake news now.
YILL DO NUTIN …..
“He added that research shows the pandemic “has had a terrible impact on physical and mental health”. ”
Not even a month ago you would have been called theatrical if you said this kind of thing.
Sure..
Your afraid to lockdown Dublin because all you care about is the tax take
Numbers are rising all across Europe and the rest of the world, its a second wave but not as bad as it would have been.
The response has to be fluid as the situation is so fluid.
leo and co screwed up with the nursing homes and that is why the death rate is so high
W⚓
Well get on with it then…Kildare residents were done over immediately due to a few Meat Barons and their Economic Migrant work force. Like for like please
Sure what would the Government be afraid of if they implement ” measures”.??
If by restrictions he means that house hold rule, that should be the limit to which restrictions are considered so as not to strange small businesses like in Kildare, Laois, offally
Furthermore, that HSE division of Dublin is a bit two longitudal. I don’t think Glencullen and Ranelagh should be restricted together or Lusk abd Raheny or Brittas and Greenhills.
I’m a Dub… I’d rather see us suffer a lockdown than a doubling of cases.
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@ed o brien: very juvenile comment to be honest.can we not just be a little more mature in this situation,if Dublin is a problem then maybe restrictions are required but it has to be targeted to the problem areas,Ireland is a small country so we do need to be aware of the economic consequences of a lockdown while at the same time be aware of health issues among our citizens,and to those that suggest that fine gael handled the pandemic better in government let me say 2 things,they created the nursing home crisis through incompetence and duh they are part of the government now.
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