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A YOUTH WHO tried to make off with a cash box following a raid on a cash-in-transit van in Dublin 15 today had to make his escape on foot after his getaway car failed to start.
The raid at the AIB at West End Retail Park happened shortly before 3pm.
A cash-in-transit worker was approached by a lone raider close to the bank’s ATM and threatened with what gardaí say was a suspected handgun.
The raider attained the cash-box, and got into a waiting car – but was forced instead to run away from the scene after the vehicle stalled. He fled in the direction of Blanchardstown town centre.
The full cash-box was recovered close by.
Gardaí at Blanchardstown are investigating, and anyone with information is being asked to contact them at 01 666 7000.
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Making it up as they go along.
@Monster Munch: They are learning. Not making it up. Just learning. You should try it.
@Monster Munch: literally the opposite. Studied evidence and reached a conclusion.
@Nicole Leeson McCarthy: Learning very slowly. The next three weeks being crucial seems to be the only constant. The above is an improvement though.
@Monster Munch: they are doing the best they can. Stop whining.
@Monster Munch: the World Health Organisation say the same!
@Monster Munch: I’d love to know what the scientific basis was for not opening pubs in June and how that changed to give us last week’s decision… Were they following the evidence then?
@Monster Munch: they whole world is learning unless you know something about this virus that no one else does.
@Monster Munch: yeah they really should have a very clear plan after all the other worldwide pandemics of Covid19……… Oh wait
@Nicole Leeson McCarthy: I wish they would learn more from Sweden
@Monster Munch: completely and entirely it’s a joke at this point!
@Monster Munch: poor you if you do not understand. I will try and explain in simple terms. People indoors and at close quarters are the main source of virus transmission. Can you understand that? Another major source of transmission is actually with people singing and shouting and cheering and talking loudly. This typifies the atmosphere in many pubs and bars. Consequently other countries have had to shut pubs and clubs because of transmissions in this atmosphere. There are also quite a number if people who are unlikely to maintain the 1 meter distance and accept table only service. Hence the evidence available in the public domain is adequate to suggest to anyone who does honest research, that opening the non essential drinking only pubs is a high risk. Hope that helps.
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: Have a day off
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: How did this change between June and last week? We’ve known all that since about April. Nowehere else has fully shutdown their pubs again.
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: exactly, pubs near me are a prime example,no social distance and in some cases no food just menus on the table, hopefully with new Garda powers this will change
@Monster Munch: it is still as serious a risk to open pubs now as it was in June. I imagine they are hoping people are more comfortable living in the world or covid 19 that there wont be many cases cause people will wash their face and wear a face masks. Unfortunately for the pub owns (especially in dublin) I dont think the wet pubs will stay open because people tend to forget that we are in a pandemic.
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: so why are we the only country in Europe with pubs closed oh wise mouthpiece?
@Monster Munch: nah sure they have a tried and tested manual detailing what to do at every step.
What exactly do you expect?
@Monster Munch: I hope you get help, I hear AA are very good
@dublindamo: Consistency? Science to applied and explained in a consistent manner. Like last week we said Pubs should open and that, we were told, was NPHET’s advice. But NPHET said in June pubs shouldn’t open. So scientifically something must have changed. Only when the NPHET lad appeared on Prime Time and wasn’t asked about this. The obvious question of the day and he wasn’t asked it.
@Monster Munch: Have you thought about how many tourists from other countries would arrive here if they heard the pubs were open?
@Joan Featherstone: I agree too , and so called Nephet calling themselves experts !! but in reality how can they be an experts if their only learning day by day ?? It’s all a joke now
Sure if that’s the case we are all experts and we should continue to lives our lives as best as we can
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: what about the hundreds of thousands who are employed in those industries? What’s going to happen to them and it’s not only about drinking it’s about their lives too
@Monster Munch: as nobody can question the so-called experts that make things up as they go , how can you be an expert if you’re only learning at you go ?
Time to just live with the virus and continue to have the best life possible down with the negativity and constant bad news
10 days if you have it and 14 if you are a close contact. Makes sense …
@Anne Marie Devlin: could be wrong here but doesnt that mean they have determined how long you will be contagious after having been confirmed but with a close contact they are allowing for time for it to possibly incubate in you.
@Anne Marie Devlin: …unless there’s a full moon and the month has an ‘r’ in it. Then it’s 8 days… or 11 if your name is Kevin.
@Anne Marie Devlin: by the time you show symptoms you’ve already had it for 2-5 days, hense the 10 days bringing it up to 14 days. A close contact would have a delay of a day or so.
@Anne Marie Devlin: yep it makes perfect sense.
Confuse us even more why don’t ya
More confusion for people. 14 days of close contact, 10 days if you are confirmed positive!
@karen: if you have it, you are clear after 10 days, it can take 4 days to incubate if you are a close contact, therefore 14 days, you may also incubate for 4 days, be A symptomatic and therefore not request a test but be contagious therefore 14 days.
@Allan O’Brien: if you have it you will have it from day 1. The only way to know is to test us. I believe the WHO meant this only for recovering cases after last day of symptoms. The way this is being conveyed is absolutely nonsensical. Those likely not infected are isolating for longer than those who are not infected.
@Allan O’Brien: when was the research done that showed an infected person was clear after 10 days? Does that mean that someone in hospital or ICU with the virus will no longer have it if it’s been more than 10 days since they’ve been diagnosed? As far as I’ve heard, people have been moved to hospital/ ICU more than 10 days after a diagnosis. Or does it mean that asymptomatic people are clear after 10 days. But what if you’re presymptomatic and your symptoms develop on the 11th day? We have been told that incubation can be up to 14 days. If a close contact gets a test and is positive, do they isolate for 10 or 14 days? So many questions
Can I ask WHY?i just don’t get it anymore I really don’t x
@Tracey Darby: the goal is the rules are so complex that when it all goes away they can say “it was this exact combination of complexity that was essential to the virus’ downfall”
“To be clear it certainly wasn’t just nature taking its course and politicians politicking.”
So let me get this correct: an actual infected person confirmed by a positive test isolates for 10 days only if they have no fever but someone who is healthy arriving from travelling is forced to isolate for 14 days. So let me see, I get myself tested on day after arrival , I’m positive and after 10 days I’m free , if I test negative I’m in “jail “ for an extra 4 days . Ah ah ah
@Isabel Oliveira: the article has a section saying it does not apply to people arriving from non green listed countries. You are making the same mistake Phil Hogan made it seems and look how he was hounded.
@Isabel Oliveira: if you test positive, then you’ve already had it for at least 4 days….
So the circus continues
Just stop now and apologize to the people, we move on!
Why are they refusing to give up on this? To maintain the semblance of a pandemic?
Because it’s such a deadly virus.
@Eric Gaffney: Would you know there was a Pandemic if it wasn’t on the news?
@Eric Gaffney: how deadly is it? Very few deaths now & not many in hospital!
What’s changed?
@Joe Moore: Nope, dont pay attention to it.
@Coole Swan: The only thing that’s changed is they’ve stopped letting it run rampant in nursing homes.
This information that cases are developing in households is misleading to say the least. Surely the government must be aware that the virus is brought in to households by infected people. The rate of infection has massively increased in the under 45 age group right across our country. This is a mixture of people becoming infected in their work place and through socializing in the pubs that have been opened with restaurants. I have personally observed on many occasions the total lack of social distancing when people have consumed alcohol. These situations are a breeding ground for the virus to spread rapidly and as some younger people do not have severe symptoms they are not aware that they have the virus and therefore passing on to other people in their households.
@Sinead O Donnell: everyone’s an armchair expert… they’ve said that there are outbreaks in households due to socialising in each other’s houses. This is the reason they’re asking people in Dublin to reduce their social contacts and it’s being advised to reduce the number of households that can be in contact in someone’s house. They know exactly how the outbreaks are occurring because they do the contact tracing.
Waste of time
What about immunosuppressed ppl that don’t have fever
How about reducing the social distance to 1 meter like in other European countries.
Is it time that The Journal stopped comments on these stories? It’s only giving a soap box to the people who believe whatever Gemma tells them?
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