While the Commissioner admitted that a motorist will be able to continue on, even if stopped and asked to turn back by officers, he said it would be âa foolish choiceâ.
He said often the sort of people who do this âhave made poor choices elsewhereâ and could be dealt with using other powers.
That Living With Covid leaflet came in the post today so I put it beside my 4-month old on the couch, took a picture of him sizing it up and sent it to my auld lad with the caption âWill we be having a Christmas at all, Tom?!â
A while later I got a mini essay back from him. A circuit breaker might be required in mid/late November to suppress the virus enough to allow people to travel at Christmas to see family, unless the current level 3 has a better impact than NPHET think and things settle down sooner. But the situation can change quickly, as evidenced by the shenanigans over the past few days. So donât worry about it or get too set on what you want to do - your plan could be ruined by events outside your control.
I didnât have the heart to tell him it was a throwaway line to accompany the picture.
As an aside, I might book into a Dublin hotel for Christmas. Itâs looking like itâll be my first ever Christmas Day outside Wexford.
I think the whole country at Level 3 eases the tension. I was due to go to Kinsale last weekend before my requirement to restrict my movements arose. Pints and restaurants is now not available anywhere so people can relax in their own prison cell and not look wistfully at freedom over the border.
Youâll get to Wexford for Christmas alright but you may be encouraged to stay there a while.
Drew Harris doing his bit to suppress the virus, just like he did his bit to suppress the efforts of the Historical Enquiries Team to get justice for the families of those murdered by loyalists in concert with the british state. The AGSI rep on Tonight Show was fairly put out by them not having powers to enforce anything. She said Mick Martin promised more powers when all thatâs happening is more visibility. She couldnât understand how increased policing powers werenât factored into the Living With Covid plan.
You can only refuse someone entry into the country via the immigration acts (technically you can remove someone but only if they have a deportation order) and they havenât been changed at all during this pandemic.
So, a Brazilian, for example, can rock up, say they are staying for 7 days, gonna tour around and theyâd legally be entitled to land here (provided they told the truth, hadnât a negative history etc)
You havent explained there why certain people should be the only ones to pay a price for what you see as the governments mistake. How is that fair either? Do you think the government should pay their full wages and if not why not?