It will have to be be asked: when did EU commissioner Phil Hogan come to Ireland from Brussels and did he self-isolate for two weeks before heading to Clifden for the golf and Oireachtas Golf Club Dinner?
If indoor dining is allowed only for the vaccinated - as apparently under consideration- then who’ll serve the food and drink? Because in most places it is the young - probably unvaccinated yet - who’ll do the serving. Accelerated vaccinations for these essential workers? 🤷♂️
Twelve years ago Aileen wouldn’t have ever run for a bus. Today in Tokyo she has run the marathon. But while that in itself is great she has now finished the Six World Marathon Majors: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, New York and now this. 👋👋👋 🎈 ⭐️ 🥇 Great achievement.
Holidays have confirmed it for me. Need to reduce the working hours a bit, enjoy more flexibility in the evenings after
@lstwrd
@TodayFM
finishes at 7pm. So not returning to
#tonightvmtv
Have enjoyed the last four years greatly and thanks to all at
@VirginMedia_TV
If Michael Cawley was, correctly, required to resign as chair of Failte Ireland then what should happen to the Minister and Oireachtas members who went to this 80 person golf dinner? We know what should happen but will it?
I’ve had enough of my timeline full of lies from
@realDonaldTrump
he may have until January 20 to disgrace himself in office but he’s way beyond boring, as well as disgraceful and pathetic. Unfollowed. If I need to know I’ll see it in a retweet.
Switching off so I’m not following whatever the British government says today about a UK/EU trade deal. Every word from Boris Johnson will be bullshit anyway, utterly predictable jingoistic nonsense and of no value.
It has been some evening courtesy of the
@irishexaminer
scoop. It is going to be one hell of a day tomorrow. The public outrage is and will be fierce. This story is massive because it is so simple and easily understood. Just what will Micheál Martin do? Good night.
So in summary: crowd shouldn’t have been on Grafton Street, elements within it behaved very badly and violently, Gardai reacted understandably and appropriately, hopefully CCTV and video footage will bring about successful prosecutions. (Switching off now for rest of weekend.)
Had plane tickets for Paris for tomorrow, bringing youngest. Friend and his son were coming with us. Hotel paid for too. Disappointed rugby off but wrote off the losses, obviously not going. Amazed that I’ve been hearing today of people going anyway for the weekend. FFS.
New Supreme Court judge Seamus Woulfe has to make weighty legal decisions of great importance but whatever about his ability to do that he didn’t have the cop-on not to attend a 81 person dinner after being involved previously at the legal end of drawing up restrictions.
Surely the Dail should be sitting at present? Six week hiatus is unconscionable at this time. We’ll discuss that and internal tensions in government on
@lstwrd
@todayfm
from 4.30.
😳 this is very, very serious for her now, level of detail in report is jaw dropping (you can’t sue for injuries though if your jaw hits the floor). TD Bailey ran 10km race three weeks after swing fall.
The idea that the FAI is paying €1.2 million per annum is insane. He is an out of work manager who would not feature in discussions for any Premier League vacancy. the IRFU wouldn’t pay Joe Schmidt that and it is a much wealthier organization.
A Dublin TD fell off a swing at Sophie's Bar in the Dean and sued.
On the
@lstword
this afternoon
@cooper_m
will be delving into the world of insurance and personal injury claims.
He did not fall off the swing... he held on with both hands. Tune in from 4:30pm on Today FM
Incredible beyond words. A US Globemaster C17, carrying more than five times its passenger limit. 640 Afghans saved from
The Taliban.
“The crew made the decision to go”. American heroes.
Via
@marcusreports
@TaraCopp
When I asked Eamon Ryan on
#tonightVMTV
if we were looking at early May before the lockdown would begin to be lifted he said it would not be wise to speculate on timings. Taoiseach gives a newspaper interview in which he says another 9 weeks. 🤷♂️
Hey
@CalThomas
I hope you’ll be available to discuss these disgraceful events in Washington, encouraged by your disgraceful outgoing seditious President on
@lstwrd
tomorrow.
Watching
@BBCNewsnight
is extraordinary in comparing the almost casual attitudes of UK experts to ours. Safe to go to pub, football matches, foreign holidays etc. Glad I live on this island but this same casualness is being imposed on the north which surely is dangerous to us?
Feel relieved that I have a restaurant booked for six of us for 8.30 tonight. Might be last night out for the year. Was out last night too and was surprised by how quiet it was. People are making choices for themselves. Surely that is one of the points of vaccination?
Whatever you may think of the decisions being announced this is the clearest statement from Micheál Martin by far. Much better written, more authoritatively delivered.
British Prime Minister Theresa May did a deal on the backstop. Committed her country to it multiple times. Today, for political expediency, she broke her word and disgraced herself. Expects EU to dump on member state Ireland. Bad Neighbour.
#tonightVMTV
at 11pm.
Doubtful this controversy ends with Dara Colleary’s resignation. Others surely need to be held to account. Particularly EU Commissioner Phil Hogan and Supreme Court judge Seamus Woulfe, appointed only last month after being Attorney General for three years. But how?
If all these measures being announced are deemed as really required then fair enough but why not then close the schools for the first three days of next week before Christmas holidays start?
@lstwrd
@todayfm
now after all the greatest concentration of unvaccinated is in schools
I can’t recall the amount of times that the late great Robert Fisk joined us on
@lstwrd
- there were so many over the years - but we loved his insight and fearless honesty. Sad news, he will be badly and sadly missed. We must find something to broadcast tomorrow
@TodayFM
A brilliant half of rugby.
#IREvFRA
extraordinary the number of people who went out of their seats to get drink, even at critical moments. FFS. Hours to drink in when this terrific game is over.
Need to know a lot more about the real meaning of that Abrahamovich Chelsea statement before reading too much into it. Whiff of PR bullshit off it as it stands.
Maybe what we should also say about that bullshit Abrahamovich Chelsea statement - all the crap about being a “custodian” - is that he failed to take the opportunity to condemn his country’s appalling invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦 not a surprise though.
I specifically wrote to
@Ryanair
for a refund. Filled the forms in correctly. Got an email this morning giving me details of the voucher I definitely said I didn’t want.
#wheresmyrefundryanair
and this is for flights booked for last April.
What has had to be handed to Kenny as manager: would anyone else have put in Bazunu, Odobamidele and Idah? Doubt it. And remember McCarthy wouldn’t play Doherty who has been excellent.
Hate to tell you Mary but one of my first year teachers, a Christian Brother at the North Mon, was sent to prison earlier this year. He wasn’t a Renaissance man, but a brute who hit indiscriminately. unfortunately some other children suffered more outrageous things at his hands
The Christian Brothers used to teach the importance of manners, based on a book by the Renaissance courtier, Balthaser de Castiglione. "Always show respect for others," etc. Could do with a revival!
If EU members can’t agree on putting Russia out of the SWIFT system for banking then that division between members is yet another win for Putin’s campaign against the EU. A self inflicted wound.
The women is a station producer, who also released a pre recorded video online. What extraordinary bravery. Now in police custody, so you have to fear for her, but hopefully others will be able to follow her lead.
Absolutely astonishing. During Russian Channel 1’s evening news broadcast, a woman ran onto the set with a sign: “No war…Don’t believe the propaganda. They’re lying to you here.”
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 compelling. Compare this level of articulation and reasoned argument too to the man who boasts about being able to remember the list “person, woman, man, camera, tv” in order.
Rep
@AOC
: "I do not need Rep. Yoho to apologize to me. Clearly he does not want to. Clearly when given the opportunity he will not & I will not stay up late at night waiting for an apology from a man who has no remorse over calling women & using abusive language towards women."
Will Jeremy Corbyn go into history books as the greatest disaster for early 21st century Britain? Dreadful during the 2016 Brexit referendum, pathetic on Brexit in this campaign and with core beliefs that alienated and scared. Johnson blessed by having weakest opponent possible
This is an extraordinary story. Outrageous actually. A partition in the room. FFS. No excuse for this going ahead given what is asked of the whole country. Bad judgement and arrogance to put it mildly.
Those who think DUP will turn around at the last moment when pressure on don’t seem to remember it didn’t sign GFA in 1998. The “nothing can be different to the UK” rings very very hollow when you consider the social laws they opt out of. Hypocrisy at best.
The power to remove Phil Hogan apparently lies with the Commission and not with our government. So he’ll probably tough it out as he’s not “the type” to do resigning is he?
The ridiculous scenes after the Cork senior hurling final yesterday - particularly the home-coming at Blackrock in Cork city- must have been in mind at the GAA meeting this morning that has decided to cancel all club fixtures.
@think_or_swim
@cooper_m
@TodayFM
great stuff ...ask him if we can have a weekly conversation on it till our government starts taking it seriously ...its bigger than the banking crisis ...
He won’t address his tweet praising China and now lies about closing border to China - 40,000 people have flown there to US since. The bully and liar in
@realDonaldTrump
on full display in this press conference.
Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment.
@OANN
I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?
A very Christmas to everyone (even to those of you I’ve muted here). 😃 back in a while. Books to be read, tv to be watched, golf to be played, food and drink to be consumed, friends and family to spend time with (in no order of priority there). Stay safe and healthy all 👋
No. I won’t stop. The point of the photo is that people have fogotten the devastation of the illnesses of half a century ago, that vaccination near eliminated. Anti-vaxxer flat-earthers don’t want reminders of progress. The point is how much vaccines have aided modern medicines.
@cooper_m
Jesus Matt leave it out depressing pictures . By the looks of the photo it looks like that was 30/50 years ago. Look at how much medicine and the equipment has improved. Even look how much an MRI has improved in the past 10 years
This photo from last Saturday's White House event nominating Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court is extraordinary in the arrogance it displays and contempt towards public health.
Every scientist told them to social distance and wear masks. The President, Senators, and White House staff now have Coronavirus.
This event, where Barrett was nominated for SCOTUS, was a superspreader event.
Boris Johnson boasting about shaking hands with coronavirus patients. You could not make it up. Britain is about to learn the hard way this is not the man to lead us in a crisis.