Youâve never been to the Spanish Arch
Does anyone have the logic behind Leaving Cert students being in 3 days a week?
Which 3?
Why not 1,2,4 or 5?
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Give us a bit of life will you!!
close everything!
Sombody thunk of it and others nodded
It seems very âŹ9 euro meal-ish and how many of them will turn up. How many teachers will turn up?
Those the English statistics?
I genuinely have seen no gatherings at all outside them. Youâd want to be an awful dope to buy them all the same. It definitely seems very strange to me they havenât closed off licenses of all shops.
Amazing the lengths lads will go to in an attempt to convince themselves itâs all a cod.
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Teachers like a four day weekend.
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Well, no problems around your hole, for sure, since you spend so much time talking out of it.
Done with Covid! Done with Covid!
3 day weeks for schools
Social housing construction cotinues
Off licences and homeware stores can stay open
We need to get serious If this is an emergency. This smacks of political decision making
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I think alcohol keeps a lot of alcoholics on an even keel and docile so this is important if you want to keep them in a semi functional state. If you were to remove it overnight I would imagine there would be major withdrawal symptoms. There is a good video somewhere of John B Keane sitting in his kitchen with his wife basically eulogising drink. He reminisces of a time where he tried to abstain or give it up. He became so miserable and irate that his wife practically begged him to have a pint.
A lot of people will find a crutch during these times. Drink isnât as important for the more casual drinker who might enjoy a few cans while watching sport on a Sunday or a couple who share a bottle of wine every other night while having dinner but government might stir a hornets nest there too if they were to abolish the sale of drink.
Its not an idea that seems to have captured the imagination of the public or journalists in the same way as closing other amenities, outlets have so that tells you everything you need to know. You can see the logic in doing so but they have probably weighed up the cost benefit of not going there. Keep the public in a state of submissiveness, not have them looking for illegal substitutes, black market trade and also maintain some stream of revenues to the exchequer from its sale. And above all else basically everyone enjoys a drink.
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My home town had a gathering of people around takeaway pints at the weekends - well that was pre Christmas. Square in the middle of the town. Apparently Dublin City Centre regularly had them.
OMG we need to introduce landmines. Close the off licences.
Alcohol is essential for some people unfortunately.
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This is fairly chilling
Dr Catherine Motherway of University Hospital Limerick said: "In pandemic times, if you do run out of resources you have to apply different ethics.
"Maybe weâll be looking at saving the most lives as opposed to admitting the sickest first.
âIf you have too many people for a finite resource, then you will have to make choices.â
The hospitals wouldnât be able to cope with people with alcohol dependencies being admitted either. You canât just turn off alcohol consumption for the nation.
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Anyone who is against this lockdown should read that.
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