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KBC BANK IRELAND has reduced the scale of its impaired loans by half for the first quarter of the year.
The level of provision for bad debt has dropped from €99 million during the first quarter of 2013 to €47.9 million for the same period this year.
Losses after tax and impairment charges came down to €17.1 million, compared to a loss of €46.4 million last year.
The bank is pressing on with new customer acquisition, adding over 9,000 customer accounts and €0.2 billion in retail deposits during Q1.
Another five branches are planned for Dublin, and it said that it will continue aggressively pursuing new customers. KBC ran a ‘change your bank day’ earlier this year, and launched new a new credit card and various personal banking services.
The bank employs over 800 people in Ireland with banking hubs in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway.
Chief executive Wm Verbraeken said that the losses and impairments were “in line with our expectations” and that the bank expects to return to profitability in 2016.
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Flat 7up,be grand…
Comment of the year!
This is not a joke
Ah, it actually was a joke Kev – you can’t really treat Ebola with flat 7up
Stale cream crackers too
You’re gunning for 1k green thumbs within half an hour. Hope you get it, that was a cracker ;-)
Actually the only thing you can do for people with Ebola is keep them hydrated so as facetious as the remark was it’s closer to the truth than many of those that will be offering their “expert” opinions.
You can catch it like the flue but it has a 90% death rate with no care, not to mention the fact that you bleed from the inside out.. Well done brains
Typical panic from the Irish authorities over what will more than likely turn out to be a common cold.
Their right to panic, can you imagine what will happen in our third world health system if it caught hold here
*They’re or They are
Peter they’re not panicking. Just doing their job. And our health system unlike those very poor nations in Africa does have the human and physical resources to do the job in this case. We have very good professionals and if, and this is must unlikely, there were concerns about an outbreak we have the capacity to move resources speedily and effectively. If anyone thinks not them just look how the State has dealt with foot and mouth disease in cattle. If we can so that for animals I can assure you what we can do for humans will make that response look shabby. When push comes to shove bureaucratic obstacles can disappear.
And cream crackers…. sorted…
The WHO , first it wasn’t serious , then if was serious and now it’s more serious than they first thought , a fine body of the huge waged and pensioned off ,,in West Africa it’s deadly serious …
If you actually read the article it says that it is NOT airborne and can only be transmitted through contact with the infected persons’ bodily fluid… Brains
This strain only has around 70% mortality and that’s the reason why its spreading, if it were the 90% strain it would of burned itself out
@Kev ‘Bleed from the inside out’? As opposed to what other form of bleeding?
Great 7up comment btw
….but just incase can all crossings for the Shannon be blocked so we are safe over in the west.
No Kevin you can’t catch it like the flu. It has flu – like symptoms to start with. You get it from being in contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person.
This comment has made my day! Genius.
HSE just confirmed there is no case in Ireland.. So where are the journal getting their info
Id say that 7 up will be perfect as I would be more suprised if this turns out to be confirmed than if I met a politician who never lied. No chance it would skip mainland Europe and hit here first.
Kev, there are different strains of this. This particular one has a mortality rate of 50-60%, not 90%. Still scary in itself until you consider that it is not as contagious as colds or the flu. Infact it’s the flu you need to really worry about. That kills more people per year than ebola ever did.
The HSE are denying this report. Yet more tabloid sensationalist journalism from The Journal
I heard if u eat infected meat too? How likely is that to happen? I’m pregnant & I’m terrified :(
That ebola missed his stop he should playing in the premiership tomorrow
Clare -if you’re craving human flesh or monkeys during pregnancy then you’re right to be terrified.
FFS its not here! Michelle the very least you could have done as a journalist is check with the HSE first before you posted a scaremongering article. Really shabby journalism. HSE have better things to be doing than issuing statements to deny baseless rumours like this written just to get a few clicks.
Yeah I’m craving marmosets like mad at the moment … I’m f**ked so!
RTE are now reporting that the Journal article is being mis-reported
Bats are another vector of transmission. Wouldn’t eat any bats from West Africa for a while so. Just in case anyone had a craving.
I heard on the news that if u eat meat from infected pigs; you can catch it that way too!! I ain’t making this up!! Red thumb away … As usual lol!!
Are you hiking through deepest Africa and eating infected bush meat?? Didn’t think so.
Sure, if the 7up & tea is struggling to do the job a bit of Suodcrem will sort it ! ;-)
And Ebola Soup !!
Claire from what I can remember it orginally started ftom people eating infected monkey meat. So no need to worry on that front. I remember beem worried about everything when I was pregnant so best of luckl
Thank god you don’t bleed from the outside in kev!now that would be serious…
Better for the Irish authorities to panic than be complacent. Studied Ebola in pained detailed years ago in college and it’s a horrific virus.
@Lucas bodily fluids in this case include sweat so you can contract it by merely shaking hands with someone with Ebola…
Lidl have marmosets as the Thursday meat deal next Thursday the 21st
Everyone needs to calm the feck down.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/hse-confirm-no-ebola-case-in-ireland-30510725.html
Won’t know till we try.
@melweiser apologies I was replying to kev’s comment which said “You can catch it like the flue but it has a 90% death rate with no care, not to mention the fact that you bleed from the inside out.. Well done brains” I was just letting him know you can’t catch it like the flu as it’s not airborne! That’s my point!
It’s certainly game over if you catch something that makes you bleed the other way, ya know? from the outside in…
Alpha Charlie – if you read the article you will see that there is no panic from the Irish Authorities. The hospital is ‘not expecting any patient transfer’ The HSE has said that there is no reported case. As a precaution an isolation bed has been prepared. The only people over-reacting is the Journal writer trying to turn this – as of now – non story into a story.
It started in monkeys and speak to humans because of the monkey meat trade in that part of the world. There is zero chance of anyone in this plus of the world coming into contact with it that way.
@ Claire,
It depends if the meat your eating is attached to an Ebola infected person
Looks like it worked..don’t mind ancient Chinese treatments can’t bate the 7up
I’d rather an over reaction than catching the damn thing.
@kev not exactly like flu as it’s not airborne (apart from Ebola Reston but that only kills monkeys).
Jacqui this is more closely related to Ebola Zaire which does have a mortality rate of 90%. Ebola Sudan is a bit less while the Marbug variant has a mortality rate of around 50-60%
Karen’ not strictly true, it is a supposition as they have never been able to find the source. The Ebola outbreaks they have tried to trace have always ended up as a dead end. One of the things that makes it so scary
Have a laugh Kev
More multicult enrichment – only a matter of time – mass immigration means free international travel for ebola, ISIS and other viruses.
You are wrong, I have researched it and there is clinical evidence that it is partially airborne as for example catching it in water droplets via sneezing.
Ciara, Clinic evidence and of course during the Reston incident, however, no evidence of transmission via this method in humans has been seen yet as cited by CDC, not to mention USAMRID and Porton Downs. It has only been seen as a transfer method in monkeys. Where did you do your research? The Daily Mail?
Kevin,
Ever heard of black humour, best way of handling fear. Doesn’t mean people aren’t taking things seriously.
Kev,
It’s known as black humour.
Recommended treatment in serious times.
Jokes do not mean that people are not treating things seriously.
John R,
correct, company I know now have a dedicated, trained driver on call 24hrs, obviously shift system. To take samples to the viral lab, who also have a scientist there 24 hrs to receive samples. If felt necessary (suppose that will depend on symptoms) a Garda escort will be provided to blue light samples in.
& a bitta dry toast. No butter now.
@Surein
If you read my comment properly, you would have seen I said “partially airborne”.
This means not large distances, it also means in moisture droplets of a certain size. The point is it can be transmitted by someone sneezing next to you. Cough particles do land on places that can make it into your internals, such as eyes, nose and mouth as well as one putting their hands up to their mouths after being in the vicinity of a ebola cougher.
The reports you cite themselves make assumptions with many doubtful words such as “probably” and “seems to”. This means as usual when it comes to the public’s health and going on past experience, we can safely say those in authority on this topic have not a clue what they are talking about or deliberately lie to the public, (as either of these 2 scenarios have never happend before).
Thus anyone with common sense, will take precautions, as well as demanding quarantines for any ppl travelling back here and stopping mass immigration etc.
Hope the person tests negative .
Absolutely Kay.
They will.
A case where being positive leads to negative outcomes.
What an empty, ‘nothing’ comment
Taxis to Mater ASAP. A lot of people are suddenly feeling much better and want to go home.
Now were are them iodine tablets
Get the Domestos and the bits of carpet….quickly.
Iodine tablets don’t be silly, they’ll only keep you safe incase of a thermo nuclear war.
Yah just pop it in your mouth as soon as you see that missile coming toward you you’ll be grand.
Incidentally, a thermo nuclear war is a far bigger threat at the moment than this Ebola virus.
What do you base that claim on Joe?
Open source Intelligence news, you might call it tin foil hat wearing shit. ;)
This is one of many reasons we need stricter immigration controls.
Because of the dozens and dozens of similarly fatal and contagious diseases and all those many, many (one) times we’ve had a *suspected* case of one of them?
How dare you?! Did you now it is racist to make an effort to prevent the spread of a deadly disease?
And what if it turns out to be a returning volunteer/health worker from that area? Will you be so quick to tell them they can’t come back?
Animals are screened for diseases coming into the country but people aren’t……why?
I remember hearing something about human rights and the right to informed consent for medical procedures but maybe that was just a rumour…
The patient was ‘recenrly on holiday’ – immigration controls won’t stop people taking holidays numpty
Are we trying to compare a human to an animal? Sure look doesn’t every country have loads of money then to screen every single person coming their country for disease! Illness has no borders…
know*
Andy,a lot of “refugees” go back to the country they were supposedly in grave danger in for “holiday”.
What’s with the thumbs down?? One of the worst viruses that has no cure has possibly got into the country ye clowns
Listen man, that’s a stupid comment. The next global pandemic will be spread by international business travelers(like sars), let’s just ban them shall we?
Stop using your own ignorance to justify xenophobia.
You make a. Sarcastic comment on the journal and it brings out the very best in people… :)
This suspected case of Ebola is another disease from a traveler but at least tourism has increased.
But serious comments like that Go up all the time.
Well AHippo has a point well kind of. The Rest of the world should be on alert to cut travel to and from countries where the spread is rampant. It doesn’t make any sense that we are not taking steps to contain this in the region. This virus does not care about racism, citizenship or borders it will kill of 50% of the population wherever it goes..
Where does it say the suspected case isn’t an Irish person?
Because it costs money… The country doesn’t have enough immigration officers to man boots at the airport how would we even afford to screen
Be careful what you say on here Sinead. There’ll either delete your opinion, or the do gooders will gang up on you. Wouldn’t be surprised if we do get cases here . Country is a joke. I asked on here before whether the Irish government had any plans to deal with this if it happens, and the red thumb brigade where out in force. Bring nothing to society , and try kill us all in the process. If it is confirmed , the immigrant council will probably say racist to say that. Sure white people can get it too. Muppets in this country
Aoife because it would take forever and we would have no tourist industry and it isn’t always possible to screen. The mass screening at airports and ports nonsense reveals a profound lack of knowledge as to how screening works. You would really be talking about pre-screening. That is a whole exercise in itself and expensive. Any Irish response would be useless without a coordinated EU response. There are simply too many possible vectors.
They took our jobs…..
Yes Sinead L that’s true , they will be back when schools re open, hopefully they or their children won’t have been in contact with Ebola
Kill 50% of the population wherever it goes? Where did you get that figure from?
Very intelligent Luke. Is it the jobs they are taking?
Well if it Ebola Zaire.. it has a kill rate of 90% so the 50% quoted above is a bit low…
How do you know that Sinead? How do they get out of their directly provided lodgings? How do they travel in and out without being noticed by the immigration authorities? I am really keen to find out so that we can stop it together.
How do you know it’s true Kate? How do they get out of their directly provided lodgings? How do they come and go without the immigration authorities etc etc.
@ Ahippo… I wonder if either of them will reply…
John 90% death rate of those infected NOT 90% of the population wherever it goes
pre-screening?how would that work now?
Well if the ones next door to me were able to do it I’m pretty sure others can do it too.
Dermot it has a death rate of at least 50% look up online academic research. In has a potential death rate of 90%. I know it isn’t here yet but we should be preparing for such scenarios.
You always get people on here arguing over the smallest details. It kills between 50% and 90 % of anybody that contracts it. As seeing as it is a virus it can adapt and evolve. The more people it comes in contact with the more it potentially can evolve and become easier to contract. That is why governments should be doing more to contain this.
https://www.bcm.edu/departments/molecular-virology-and-microbiology/ebola
Pol I’m not disputing the percentage of infected people that die. Bit you said it kills 50% of the POPULATION wherever it goes not 50% of those infected. There is a massive difference between the two
Well then they are not refugees Sinead.
I hate people that spend there life correcting people…
If you’re going to scaremonger at least get your facts right and if you don’t want to be corrected don’t make stupid statements
Oh shit!!!!
Don’t worry, just move into an aeroplane, Roger Daltrey said you can’t catch it on a plane. ..
I hope you’re not getting confused between Roger Daltry (the Who) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) – totally different organisations. If you took Roger Daltrey’s (The Who) advise you’d ‘Hope you die before you get old’ . The World Health Organisation (WHO) are doing as much as possible to prevent this occurance!
Where’s that clown now that was saying there is zero chance of it coming here?
It has not been confirmed as Ebola though.
Who said there was zero chance? That person should be sacked there’s always a chance!
Was Ryan Carroll wasn’t it?
The chance of it being a major problem is not there though.
The common flu will kill more between now and Christmas than Ebola will in a century.
If it goes airborne then that is a different story but it hasn’t yet. So we’ll cross that bridge when it happens.
It’s been confirmed that it is not Ebola…. Let the smugness begin.
Here we go….
Flu-like symptoms? Maybe…the flu?
Maybe manflu
If it is manflu, may God have mercy on us all.
Which in fairness would need just as much attention. Negative pressure is one of the only know cures for manflu!!!
Yeah normally applied by your wife telling you manflu doesn’t exist, can’t get much more negative!
If I go to UK this weekend and come back with a sniffle, will I be allowed back in the country?
You’ll be shot with a high-powered rifle by a man wearing a biohazard suit Brian. And proper order too you’ve got to admit.
Don’t be so sure it’s not here. This just arrived on my timeline. Help us all. I’m off to mass now.
http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/08/15/confirmed-ebola-virus-spotted-on-cctv-at-dublin-airport/
Coming over here stealing our flu viruses jobs….
comment of the week right there
Right, because people coming into a country with limited resources do not compete for those resources with the natives. Do you do logic at all. Populist moron.
Thanks for the free analysis of my intellectual abilities Ciara. I’m amazed how you could be accurate from just that one sentence.
Nazi
Lads relax! As long as none of ye shift him/her, ye’ll be grand!
it would be a deadly shift though!
Given that the hse is the most dysfunctional organisation in the country and the hospitals are full of trolley s from bad management at the top.. I feel sorry for the good doctors and nurses who will have to deal with this and I have no faith what so ever in a country which shuts down with two inches of snow to deal with a pandemic like this..
They can’t even contain MRSA, it is worrying.
It’s a SUSPECTED case. No pandemic. No panic. Jesus wept what is wrong with you people!
Oh come on. MRSA is a highly resistant extremely easy to transmit pathogen that also usually only affects people with compromised immune systems. And it is nowhere near as fatal as ebola.
It’s certainly not a case of “can’t even”!
…sh*t just got real
Calm down. They say “suspected”.
..Shit did not just get real :)
Histrionics just got hysterical.
Shit. What airplane did that person fly on :(
Why? Did you share bodily fluids with someone on a plane recently?!
If not then relax…this is not a cold or flu virus.
You will be grand Fiona, unless of course you just renewed your mile high membership…. it a fluid contact no need to panic unless they sneezed or coughed on you, transmission is low if correct procedures are adhered to. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/
Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say its time for our viewers to crack each others’ heads open and feast on the goo inside?
Yes I would, Kent.
Yes I would, Kent
With the very weak , next to no security of travellers coming and going from and into Ireland, it was only a matter of time. There is a big effort to play down the threat of Ebola reaching Ireland/ European countries, lest panic ensues, but logic will tell you, that there is a very real and present danger from this horrific strain of virus
Tristan, should we keep the travellers on the halting sites then?
Make an isolation unit in an ambulance and when the person recovers (or maybe doesn’t) burn the ambulance out… I’m only half joking
“Suspected” lets wait for a confirmed case before we go nuts.
And then not go nuts.
I want to go nuts. It’s Friday.
Great something else for me stress over now , I’m a walking Xanax
Let the panic commence in…………………3…….2……..1…………..GO
AAAHHHHHHHHHH! EBOLAAAAAAAA! Will that do?
Sorry I have to laugh with the ( this is getting real comments) when over a thousand people have died of this disease in Africa, and doctors battling hard to contain it. One geezer in Ireland is in hospital with the suspected virus and now it gets real. Does someone have to starve to death in Ireland before before famine in parts of Africa becomes real ?
Team Ireland is sure to balls this one up.
Probably not, but at least they can rest assured there will be guys like you who don’t see themselves as part of the Team, and who will always be ready to pounce if they get it wrong.
No they are not Hipster. We aren’t an impoverished country and we have the resources, both professional and physical, to manage and contain serious diseases unlike those poor African States . Drop the negative nonsense. You sound as if you want an epidemic to succeed to justify your poor self image. Get a life.
Well John I wouldn’t underestimate the danger of this virus. If this gets into a major population center and spreads panic will force any government to make a balls of the situation.
Yes Pól, if is the word and panic is what is likely to do the damage but Ireland does have very considerable resources and panic can be mitigated with good communication and actions that work. I feel no need to panic. A 1918 flu recurrence? Now that might cause me to panic !
I’ve done work in many hospitals in Ireland, the standards of hygiene and lax attitude to basic procedure have shocked me in some cases. Never been in the Mater I might add.
If this is Ebola, I really hope we are prepared for this and proper training has been put in place to deal with this but I worry knowing what goes on in some of these places.
This is not something we routinely specialise in and I wonder has adequate planning and risk management been put in place.
I am very unimpressed with this reporting. I think it is sensational, and stretching the truth. Your headline this morning was entirely misleading and now has been refuted by the HSE. Doctors have always worked on a basis of using differential diagnosis, and of course given the world outbreak, would be well down the list of those. But there none the less. I dont see how scaring the public is worth it for getting readers. Just my opinion.
Close the doors Ireland, we’re taking the rest of the year off
HSE have stated that there are no confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola in Ireland. I’m surprised with thejournal.ie. Not usually one to run with an unconfirmed panic story like the Indo!
Oh really, they ran a similar story a couple of weeks ago about a guy in Glasgow “possibly” having the disease.
Fk me pink!
Haven’t heard that expression in a while.
No no no! No sharing of bodily fluids??!!! Got it??
Ride me sideways was another one!
Cravez.. :) I Lol’d!!!
Relax, it’s all fine. They’re on a trolley in an A&E. Sure those trolleys cure everything!!!!
Panic station!
You’re cute !!
Plenty of fish is also a app you should try it mitch
Cheers dunners !!
It was sharing bodily fluids that got us in this mess in the first place Mitch!
Run paddys run
So someone comes back fro a hot country, gets off the plane in shorts and tshirt..discovers it’s Baltic in Ireland and develops flu like symptoms….should have wore a feckin jumper ffs. Ebola me bollox!
Is this really appropriate as a news article? It appears to be reported by the Journal, with an alert, just to drive hysteria. There is a real person behind this story and it will cause a lot of anxiety to outsiders. Would the journal report on someone in isolation with multidrug. Resistant tuberculosis? I’d hope not. Please be more appropriate with what you deem as news.
Agreed, totally unnecessary to issue an alert. I didn’t think of the journal as a redtop but this is blatant scaremongering to drive readership (and ad revenue)
Oh ffs!!!
This is irresponsible reporting on the part of the journal. This story has changed twice in the space of an hour. And an issue like this could cause panic. On an issue like this the journal should say nothing until something has been confirmed and forget about being first to release a story.
Dear Journal. RTE claims that this story is is wrong.
See quoted text from RTE; ” The Health Service Executive has said there are no confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola in Ireland.
Its comments follow a report on The Journal website that the Mater Hospital in Dublin was preparing to treat a patient suspected of having the deadly virus.”
Scare mongering again Journal? You might acknowledge the fact that the HSE have said this is not true instead of reporting non existent ‘exclusives’.
I’m going it to buy an 8 inch Tabloid just for reading articles on the Journal from now on. Or maybe I’ll just stop reading the Journal.
So it begins. Let’s wait and see the profile of three patient and then see what to do. Could be a national that worked in Africa or someone visiting home.but now it close to home it has to be dealt with quickly
But the chances of it being Ebola are slim. It’s probably malaria or yellow fever. They have simular symptoms.
Lock her down lads .! Leo… Get the finger out.
… not exactly an outpour of support and empathy from journal readers! …
Am, get well soon maybe?
Just seen a tweet from newstalk saying the HSE have confirmed there are no suspected outbreaks. Might need to check your sources again?
Stricter immigration controls? Because nobody could ever leave the country, contract the virus and come back again! Il tell you what, why don’t we erect a 20ft wall all around the country and close all the airports?
Ah Yeah you’re right, lets do nothing instead.
Great plan James! Grab your tools and lets get started :-)
OMG IT’s getting real folks!
No it isn’t! Scare tactics designed to distract from other issues…..then we’ll be sold expensive miracle cures…….
Indeed it is, kinda scary it could be at our door….
Careful ruairi, don’t tempt fate, u don’t wanna b shouting scare tactics as ur skin is being eaten away in ur isolation room ;)
Well if the case is Ebola then it’s getting very real! Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Yes. Because Ebola was actually fake until someone suggested a patient in Ireland might have it.
Relax lads, it’s probably just a new strain of bird flu, or swine flu, or foot and mouth or… ;)
Irish Times says it’s all nonsense, HSE say’s theres no confirmed or suspected threats of Ebola.
So what’s the official line on this, do we spend our nest egg now or what.
Put it into the lotto! If you’re not in you cant win
F*ck that, I was contemplating a fear and loathing in las Vegas type of scenario, I’m just waiting for me cue from the HSE and I’m away on a mad one ;)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Oh wait whats this? The Journal didnt do an ounce of research and in search of clicks decided to incite panic? http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/hse-denies-reports-of-suspected-ebola-case-in-ireland-639243.html
If this is not true then will damage the creditability of this online rag
Calm down, to get infected you have to have skin to skin contact or contact through sneezing. Unlike many other diseases it is not spread through the air.
A contributory factor to the spread in Africa is that in a lot of cases it is customary to wash a body very quickly after death. And of course the washers get infected.
“It’s not spread through the air” you say but you can catch it from someone sneezing. That’s a real conundrum there for you.
The mucus when you sneeze goes through the air.
When he said it’s not spread through the air he was correct – Ebola is not an airbourne virus in that it can’t survive while suspended in the air. It needs a host. The sneeze is flinging it onto someone else where it can survive.
Wait till the winter comes, sweaty condensation bus windows.
Even if it is confirmed. Theres no need to panic.
That first red thumb was my fault scrolling down… Apologies
You can change thumbs you know..;-)
Tru Johnny. Know anywhere up a flight of stairs that can be locked from the inside? Perhaps a place where food could be passed up by means of say…a lift??
I did not. Done and done
Id prefer Ebola…
1.2 million people died of aids in the past 12 months in Africa , I hope that doesn’t reach Ireland , oh shit , aids is already here , we are doomed !!
There is a difference, you can catch this like the flu and it has a 90% death rate with no cure
You cant catch it like the flu man.
Actually ebola is spread in the exact same way as HIV. Jesus if you’re going to spread a panic at least use he correct info.
That’s the second time you’ve said that you can catch it like ‘flu, and also the second time you’ve been wrong.
Then why is the patient being brought here??
Patient is already here. Just in another hospital. They are being moved to an isolation ward.
Why don’t people read the article before feeling the need to comment….
Didn’t think if would get here so quickly. Not a good sign of things to come.
Bit early to predict the end if civilisation?
More like black death number 2
Somebody feels ill. The journal needs a story. Patient now has Ebola.
“There are no confirmed, or suspected, cases of Ebola in Ireland,” a HSE spokeswoman said.
Via the Indo.
So who is telling porkies…..in all the other media channels the HSE has released a statement saying there are no cases or suspected cases being treated and they specifically note The Journal sa the only media outlet reporting differently. It would seem unusual to me that the Joournal would have this is a ‘exclusive’
Scary stuff, there should have been total lock down no flights in or out of those countries where the outbreaks where happening! How the hell is our health service going to deal with this, it can barely manage the day to day stuff at the best of times, an outbreak here would have it in total meltdown!!
Quick recall the Dail and Seanad
Ha! Yeh, I can see Enda getting his reverse camera and Irish flag ready for another state of him address.
‘This is not your fault, yada yada, I’m a bollox’
Ladies and gentlemen please calm down. You don’t know the circumstances of that poor persons condition. They may not have been snotting and sneezing on a plane for 7 or 8 hours. And our mediacal screening of all immigrants coming through Irish airpots is second to none. Its not like they were left on a trolly in A&E for 12hours and came into contact with other patiences in the corridoors.And of couse you know how efficience and hygenic our hospitals are and how skillful we are are handwashing between patients. Anyone ask where the patient is been held while the isolation ward is being prepared. I am not blaming the Doctors or Nurses for this situation, but can we really trust the HSE to deal with anything in this country…..
Oh dear God……..we’re all gonna die
Scary news for the hypochondriac!
Every other media outlet is publishing denials from the HSE, that this is plain not true..
Wonder if this is the journal turning tabloid on it, and desperate to break story first without all the facts, or the big bad government plain not telling the truth :)
False reporting at its best from The Journal. Why put a stupid headline like that up that there is a suspected case and then in the first line confirm that the HSE say no supected case. Lazy and bad reporting at its best
Cue mass hysteria, the tabloids giving us their “medical opinion”, politicians jumping on the band wagon, people moaning about the health service, calls for sealing the borders, a ban on handshakes and cheek kissing, the All Ireland being cancelled and nutters standing on street corners saying that the end is nigh!!!
The All Ireland would never be cancelled. The GAA and the Vintner’s Association wouldn’t stand for it. Phonecalls would be made.
I was with you until you were cancelling the All Ireland.
I wasn’t with you until you were cancelling the All Ireland.
Moron
If it is not here now, means you do not relax border security in order to wait for it to arrive and then stupidly close the borders after it is in, the time to stop mass immigration was 15 yrs ago.
When they say they are getting ready for the patient, does that mean they’re looking for a spare gurney in the hallway?
Checking for a spare blanket and pillow too
Just heard on the news on Newstalk that this was hogwash. The hospital in question claims there are no suspected ebola victims in the country
And yet despite tonnes of comments pointing out you appear to be imcorrect there is no fear of taking down this story as it is more important to drive clicks for ad revenue than actually report facts.
This is shameless click baiting with no substantial evidence to support the sensationalist headline. Of course all the mindless sheep just lap it up without question.
Shameless muck worthy of the tabloids. How anyone can post this and call themselves a journalist is beyond me. Leaves little hope for integrity of Irish online journalism into the future. All the same as the last generation of pint swilling lushes.
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Aaaannnnnddddd its bullshit.
Like everything else …we Have to have it !
It’s part of our exit out of the bail out , take Ebola on the chin and we might get a reduction on our interest rate
The Journal making up stuff again
I believe the virus has come from Nigeria and the person who contracted it will be fine.
Yeah… And I won the Nigerian lottery again. We went into lockdown for foot & mouth 14 years ago & that was an agricultural disease, now we have one of the deadliest pathogens known to man & do-gooders would rather bury their heads in the sand than acknowledge the truth no matter how unpleasant that stricter immigration controls are needed.
Huh? How do you know this person is an immigrant? Could it be an ‘irish’ person returning from work in Nigeria?
We did go into lockdown for Foot and and Mouth, and successfully fought it off. I was a newbie clerical type in the Animal Health & welfare division of the Dept of Agriculture at the time, and it was one of the few times I felt proud to be part of the public service.
Immigration laws have no impact on the spread of a disease, unless you propose to ban Irish people and long term residents from foreign travel that is not fully necessary (no holidays abroad for anyone ever!) in case they catch anything while out of the country and you add a further restriction on movement within the island to prevent mixing of people in case there are potential pathogens which sneaked in anyway. Such a society might resemble North Korea however and our small open economy would pack it in and be killed off quicker than you could say boo.
Ebola is a very serious disease. Hopefully it turns out the suspected case is not Ebola. If it is, hopefully it is contained. For all the criticism of the HSE, I think we can be confident they will be able to contain it and if any temporary restrictions on our lives are needed, that these will be handled quickly and efficiently. It is not a time for racism.
The keyword there is Nigeria, I never made reference to the patients ethnicity, you read an inference where none existed.
Great to see Racism is alive. There is no suspected case according to other new outlets. Its just the Journal scare mongering. But looking at certain comments I’m disgusted at peoples ignorance and willingness to post garbage…
John no need to get your fluffy tail in a twist.
Oh I’m sorry Paul did I offend you?
Do you get the old racist digs in no matter what the subject is?
You did. You mentioned immigration. You have an issue with black people, simple as.
@ Michael
I wonder why Pauls messages are not coming up..
I’d say it was a black its always the blacks
Now if I remember this quote correctly… The Irish are the Blacks of Europe… So what your saying Paul is, its always the Irish??
Hi john i didn’t read your comment but if it’s a raging racial slur with no basis in fact like all racists I’m in I agree
@Bernard
Securing one’s borders, stopping mass immigration has a massive effect on helping to stop spreading the disease. There are far more Africans travelling to Europe than there are Irish people travelling to Africa. It is far easier to quarantine any Irish person coming back from Africa than sussing out Africans who travel here or are already in the country.
Also if immigration had no impact on the spread of disease African countries would not be securing their borders. You really made a stupid comment.
Someone tweet Kevin Spacey! He’ll help us.
He would be no good, he died very quick in the film.. we need dustin hoffman…
Cant wait for the Journal’s next exclusive “Elvis seen in Kilshamuch”
So it begins. Let’s wait and see the profile of thre patient and then see what to do. Could be a national that worked in Africa or someone visiting home.but now it close to home it has to be dealt with quickly
Scare Mongering, lure us in with a title and basically bottle it for the whole story. Sure he may as we’ll be treated for Small Pox and HIV.
Enough I give up this news site has turned in to an Irish on-line version of the SUN.
No more Journal for me.
Game over , guys.
Respawn?
Hope his HSE card is up to date !!!
Be grand sure he/she will only have to pay up to €750.
‘Exclusive’? Yes, exclusively wrong initial report.
If they test positive they will be put down won’t they?
Sorry, I can’t come into work today, I have a 24 hour Elboa…*feins cough*
Scary scary stuff
Everyone relax it’s been confirmed it’s not Ebola.
Scaremongering! Just heard on the news that this “report ” is FALSE!
Gutter journalism
Yea I’ve seen this film before , nobody panic it will be grand …. Que montage
…s**t just got real
Prob just some langer making sure he has a solid excuse for ditching work on a Friday – sorry boss, couldn’t come in Friday, had a wicked case of expected Ebola.
Fingers crossed, eh.
I thought I had contracted Ebola last night cause I was feeling really shitty but it turns out it was just a head cold and I feel grand today after a decent nights sleep so every cloud!!!!!
God you were lucky!!! Look after yourself mate
Is this somehow linked to the whole Garth Brooks debacle?
When do we start stocking up and staying indoors?
The most imminent danger I can see is the virulent spread of ignorant racism towards anyone who could be perceived as’ African’…just at a time when the country is beginning to learn acceptance of multiculturalism.
Man flu!
Pathetic reading the comments from all the clowns on here joking about this.
Then don’t read them and bog off.
I’d rather have Ebola coco pops :-)
Was it an asylum seeker coming back from holidays in nigeria !
Scaremongering and misleading. The headline reads like “JESUS IT’S HERE !”… The text immediately then seems to say “Well it’s not actually here but imagine if it was” ?
Ebola? Bleedin deadly!
More schoolboy journalism from The Journal. Scaremongering, just to get a few more clicks. Embarrassing
Wake up to an alert from Journal saying ‘yup, it’s ebola’ and now another alert saying ‘er it’s not’.
That’ll be an uninstall from me anyway.
Whaaaaa, I told you, boarders should be up for anyone who is travelling in from those horrible African place’s. Was in Africa last year, and it hasn’t changed since the dawn of time.
Outta curiosity, where did you get your time machine… always wanted to visit the Dawn of Time…
Zombie apocalypse – baseball bat at the ready….
This article has had the head and body changed more times than Trigger’s broom. Shoddy and desperate ‘journalism’.
I thought I was going mad when I came back to this “Article” but it appears that The Journal has changed their story to suit their needs…
Usually when an article gets bashed in the comments the “journalist” defends it……….well can you defend this poor excuse of journalism? Or are you looking for a job in the indo?
Every1 sends their shite here…
We can’t even control MRSA, so this should wipe out a good few, lucky it’s not in Beaumont!!!
is there any meds currently being tested, id have no problem being used as a mule for testing a cure for this one. hooe the person pulls through, and how the christ was it contracted here. Crazy, next thing the whole country will put in lock down, while America, England and Germany tell us we cant fly anywhere.
Yes, WHO has approved the use of experimental medication on humans. Meds that have never been trialled on humans are now being given people with the virus.
im looking for a preventative med, not a “sorry, you already have the virus heres something to take the pain away for a few days” med
I’m not sure you understand how these things work
Brian, I think you need a body size condom/latex body suit. Should keep you safe.
Americans with the virus ! To be more accurate
Yes Americans because that’s where the medicine is being developed.
We would not need to quarantine the island for Ebola Zaire.
We’d only need to do that if it mutated to airborne strain. (Highly HIGHLY unlikely)
Being abroad and flu like symptoms.Is that all it takes to be whisked off to an isolation unit? Might as well seal off Dublin airport
This can’t be laughed about, this is pretty serious stuff.
The original article was one of the most comically unsubstantiated pieces of ‘journalism’ I’ve ever had the misfortune to come across. With no training whatsoever, I could do a better job of writing articles for thejournal.ie – thankfully though, I have no desire to sell out.
The WHO. I know they done the theme tune for CSI bur never knew they were medical experts.
I’m already on my way to the airport, good luck guys. I’m expecting to come back to some 28 days later style stuff
Yet again, the Government caught off guard. Its been in the news for weeks and they still don’t even have an isolation room ready. Let alone other measures…
For those who say relax, it just spreads if you come in contact with bodily fluids of infected person, seriously guys its not that difficult. Not everyone is concerned about their personal hygiene…
A hot toddie and sum panadol and sure it be grand
Settle lads, it’s nothing a glass of flat 7up & a hot water bottle won’t fix. Get an Irish Mammy on the case, stat….
Oh shut up.
Oh sweet Jesus!!!
I’ve the flu can i get an isolated room as well
I know the Ebola virus is serious but anyone else think the … Statment….more as we get it…… At end of article was deliberate .
@ Paul. Pure scare mongering on The Journals behalf.. Cheap Tabloid tactics..
John, your getting very worked up about all this! Are you Nigerian?
@ Paul Ah so you’ve now gone from trying to insult my name to attempting to insult where I might be from… Good man. I notice you seem to have no real issue with the fact that The Journal is scare mongering, and you seem to have a dislike for Nigeria…
Hahaha it’s not airborne but spread by bodily fluid… ie a sneeze into he hand and then touch the same pen…door handle… bus/train rail….etc serious enough
I Know for a fact that a visitor from Sierra Leone was left on a trolley for two days in tallaght hospital with flu like symptoms. Huge panic to move him when they realised where he travelled from. It’s just a matter of time. Seems like there are no precautions being taken at entry points to Ireland. Hospital staff overworked and not equipped to stay on top of this.
Don’t believe you.
Albanian police have detained 40 illegal immigrants from Africa today, five of whom are currently under quarantine after exhibiting symptoms of Ebola, Macedonian newspaper Vecer has reported.
http://www.newsweek.com/five-illegal-immigrants-detained-albania-ebola-symptoms-264605
Prevent mass infection – stop mass immigration.
It’s not ”just a matter of time” at all, stop scaremongering.
A simple blood test can determine if someone is infected.
”Flu like symptoms” and ebola like symtoms are NOT the same thing, there are a number of key differences any consultant or registrar would know to look out for.
Stop peddling bull__t
Now we’ll see trendy surgical masks in public and latex gloves.. I dunno about you but I think it’s time to stock up on supplies from the local supermarket and start to live like a recluse.
How come it’s not on the radio news ?.
I believe its not on the new, because it appears The Journal has a non story…. The HSE have stated they do not have a suspected case…. It would be interesting to see where The Journal journalist got their info from…if they did…
Don’t worry the government is on the job. And they have a plan………………
Iodine tablets!!!!
One packet will be issued to every household. And you think they waste your tax money. Shame on you all.
Real or not real, this is a clear warning shot across our Bow.
Ban all travel to and from countries infected immediately or would that be too much coomon sense.? It’s in parts of Africa let’s keep it contained.
Stand by for Racist accusations.
I’m so sick of hearing this bulls__T get peddled over and over THERE ARE NO DIRECT FLIGHTS FROM THOSE COUNTRIES ALREADY YOU MORON!
The above article is factually incorrect as Ebola can travel a short distance through the air in water droplets
This is just some chancer after pulling a sickie and is now too embarrassed to admit he was just trying to get a long weekend.
Seriously just pull this non story
Travelled abroad where?
(8)This is the end….(8) continue…
The Army and the HSE have a number of isolation units around the country so all your predictable “We’re crap at everything” mantra is just self hating rubbish.
The Army? Get real! They don’t and neither do the HSE.
Ebola is a category 4 contagion, there are two L4 negative pressure single occupancy rooms in Ireland.
http://www.mater.ie/services/depts/i/national-isolation-unit/
Provide a link to support your statement?
Ebola ? . Does he play in the League of Ireland for Bohs ?
‘It is understood the patient recently travelled abroad’ heres hoping that it was to one of the effected countries i.e. Nigeria, Liberia, etc or do we take it from that statement that you can get it by ‘travelling abroad’ lol!!!
Not airborne my bollix
That didnt take long!
Hope it’s not ebola…
Let the panic commence in..3..2..1..GO
Táimid Marbh
Where’s Hoffman when you need him!
Think about it. Ebola can be easily transmitted, countries with Ebola still have open borders……My belief: give it another 13-17 days, at least 10 more countries would have an Ebola patient…..WATCH
So it was all over nothing then.
But you knew that from the start.
We are doomed, all doomed I tells ya
The national hysteria begins..
The Ebola virus can live in water droplets suspended in air – so it can be airborne. For example a cough on one end of a commuter train and a poor fecker down the other end could get it.
That’s not true. You cannot become infected by a cough. Ebola lasts p1ssing time outside a human host or it’s bodily fluids. There would not be enough particles in a cough droplet to infect you
Game over, guys.
That’s the spirit!
Has the whole flight gone to quarantine, cause with recycled air on an aircraft they are more likely to get the suspected case of Ebola too?
I think i will just stay in bed. Cliff Richard and now this. What’s next, hopes it’s not my ex wanting her key back.
Where’s Mary Doherty
When Ebola was first mentioned on the journal
She wrote quite a lot of informative articles.
Hope she is well.
Gallows humour?.
Sudocrem. Works wonders.
Uh oh. Everyone hopes it is not Ebola cause we don’t want to die cause there is no vaccination yet
If some1 brought the virus to Ireland , he/she should be lined up and shot before it spreads
How do you line up one person.
Ive family working in the mater and they have been told thats its highly suspected case of ebola. Lots of these space auits thing brought in early this morning for the isolation unit. HSE prob dening at this point to prevent any histeria or from people checking out early
Cool story bro
Jaysus
Ah for f sake !!
Guidelines are in place for a suspected case but are not being used for this suspected case. Great Irish logic at work again, if Ebola comes here we are in so much trouble. The HSE are so clueless.
Was this lad in coppers during the week ?? A lot of women very worried !!
lbanian police have detained 40 illegal immigrants from Africa today, five of whom are currently under quarantine after exhibiting symptoms of Ebola, Macedonian newspaper Vecer has reported.
http://www.newsweek.com/five-illegal-immigrants-detained-albania-ebola-symptoms-264605
Prevent mass infection – stop mass immigration, secure our people.
Just the flu
Probley just has the flu
Shut down everything!!!1
28 days later !!!!!!! Eeeek! !
It could be anything. It’s probably just hiv.
Breaking news from HSE.. It was a severe bout of man flu
That’s what open borders and uncontrolled immigration does for you !
Anyone travelling to those countries where cases of Ebola have been confirmed, must not be allowed back in Ireland. This is a disease where the incubation period is up to 21 days and the mortality rate is 50% to 90% and there is no cure or vaccine for such. If the virus became airborne it would pose a serious threat to people all over the world. You can call me crazy but this is a matter of national security and it is better to be safe than sorry.
Only the Mighty Personal Virus And Cancer Killer can stop the deadly Ebola virus and disease once and for all – that is just an exercise for a minute a day for prevention and for 3 minutes a day for max. 7 days for the sick person to get cured. The price of the Virus/Cancer Killer for the whole world is 340 billion bucks. I guess the Big Boys will arrange the payment as soon as possible as for the life on Earth to be restored to completely normal, for nobody on the planet is protected 100% against any viruses – the Big Boys included.
It’s a lie
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