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Dunno but it’s a fairly damning indictment of working standards in those plants and their shocking pay.
Pay so poor the immigrants have no choice but to pack out houses way beyond comfortable or humane standards.
Heard a few interesting ones on the meat plants from someone in the HSE.
They got all of their foreign staff to put the company HR person’s phone number down as their contact, so the people themselves would never actually be contacted. The amount of HSE Admin staff fuck ups is, unexpectedly, through the roof, in that they took down wrong names, addresses and phone numbers (down to logging 9 digit phone numbers instead of 10).
Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians.
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Now then. Part time workers to have covid payments reduced to the jobseekers allowance. The 350 for full timers ti be cut out over time.
In other news 55% of people who dont have a car are now considering getting one. (Cc. @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy) Hopefully they’ll get rid of a few of those pesky bike lanes now.
The students on College Road in Cork will only be able to afford going to house parties 4 nights of the week now instead of 7.
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I stopped reading at Maynooth.
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Were you a seminarian Fagan ???
Professor Philip Nolan, whose 50-strong financial modelling team identify R number movements and have input into lockdown restrictions and pace of easing them, is Maynooth too. 
It’s worrying really.
I’d rather have no education that a Maynooth one, frankly.
Dunphy had some chap on his podcast yesterday from the LIDTF school of thought. While he welcomed debate and criticism of the lockdown he poured scorn on “upstart scientists” who try to dispute known facts. He swatted away the Nobel prize winner’s belief that a second wave was impossible because he was using stats to forecast/predict the future without using known facts about the virus. He believes that a second wave was probably inevitable if masks weren’t mandatory and testing/tracing wasn’t brought back to 72 hours. He said it’s better to get this lockdown correct because a second lockdown would be disasterous economically. He was from Trinity cc @Fagan_ODowd
The whole thing is a scamdemic.
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People will refuse a second lock down, the fun will start then.
Both are achievable
They can’t stop you driving 40km’s really. Pick a point 20km from your house that’s a good excuse. Say Woodies
If you are stopped within 20km of home; where are you going? Woodies.
If stopped within 20km of your destination, then just say you are returning to destination from Woodies.
Tis all a cod anyway, half of Limerick is gone to Clare and Kerry the last two weeks
You’ll be able to fly to Abu Dhabi before you can go 21km
Some sickener for the shops in the likes of liffey valley. They’ll all have to try open back doors thru the store rooms into the open air