It’s the truth.
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You’ll see the councils out every October and November re-doing odd lengths of footpaths just to use up budgets. Its bonkers stuff.
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“stick fighting”
A phrase all but patented by that arsehole George Byrne.
Anyone associating themself with George Byrne is like someone taking a holiday in the Golden Vale to go skiing in cow shit.
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That’s the biggest concern
You’d think that alright. But a heap of projects down our way that had been on the long finger for years have started in last 6 months. New school being built on greenfield site, new firestation, extension to hospital, new playground… Funding approved eventually for short bypass of town job to happen in next few months etc
Lads asking what they like prices if they were available to do it. Crazy use of money.
Good points, impossible to argue with, and being honest the thoughts of it are terrifying to me, because I’ll be at both ends of the coalface with a wife that will be working and potentially 4 kids schooling from home.
But it’s a real possibility and it’s better than nothing, it’ll give kids some structure to the day which is important if the weather isn’t good,
If cases continue to rise then it’s going to be difficult to keep schools open with all the red tape around contact tracing and isolating etc
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Il be working from home and wife working as well for 3 days a week. I spent March to end of June looking after two kids all day at home while my job went into overdrive at the same time, working at night and weekends to catch up the lost time during the week. And even at that I was keeping the kids alive only trying to educate them on top of that would have been a serious bridge too far
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Happens everywhere
You do what you can, everybody’s circumstances are different,
If your kids are too young to use a computer with any independence then it’s almost certainly a waste of time, box ticking, make sure they do a bit of reading every day and have them work on some maths from their schoolbooks
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Big Sam calling for a circuit breaker for football
Ah I get that… As long as schools aren’t putting on the pressure be fine. Kids will make up the learning it’s the socialisation I’d be more worried about
He might have thought about these concerns before he took the job
There’s no justification for continuing with lockdowns. There’s no evidence they work and some that shows they’re counter productive in terms of tackling the virus while being catastrophic in terms of health, the economy etc.
The government should protect old people’s homes, encourage private companies to let vulnerable adults work from home wherever possible, tell people to isolate if their symptoms coincide with a positive test and issue public health advice regarding vitamin d, c, magnesium and zinc. And kids should definitely be in school, and anyone promoting or supporting masking kids should probably be in jail.
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I’m thinking of starting a babysitting service.
Councils are being pumped with funds from HQ
How far would you travel?
Do your kids like racing
That won’t last forever.
The supposed free money will have to be paid back, one way or the other.