@Locutus Of Borg: Dail not sitting doesn’t mean they are on hols. Surely you know politicians have busy jobs outside the dail with their constituencies..

@Niall Ó Cofaigh: 60,000 votes eh , so that rules out most of the current Government . Leo the leak got in on 8,000 and odd after 5 counts , Martin had 11,000 and odd after multiple counts , 10 to 12 thousand votes pretty much guarantees election to Dáil Éireann .

@Matt Black: he said 6k not 60k

@Matt Black: read what he actually said!!

@Niall Ó Cofaigh: most of our politicians have 20 advisers and specialist that are doing work for them

@John Johnes: politicians are elected to represent their constituents. They are representative of the constituents, as in they don’t know everything on all matters of policy, the same way you don’t. The advisors provide informed information on their areas of policy and then the elected representative makes a decision based on the will of the people or the mandate they were elected to represent (or the will of the party whip, but that’s for another gripe). Anyway I hope I got my point across regardless. Stay safe.

@Matt Black: 6000 Matt, 6000. Read it again.

@Matt Black: going off on a rant when you’ve misread something…morto for you.

@Brian Burns: don’t they advise the government?

It’s nearly over now, NEPHT will be disbanded,

This has been said over and over. The government make the final call, NEPHT advise

@Brian Burns: wait what? They take advice from medical professionals instead of just injecting domestos into their veins?

@alan scott: since leaky went against big Tony’s advice Christmas last year to a tsunami of cases they have meekly given the reigns back to nephet..its only lately they push the narrative in the media such as “government expects nephet to….”big t-dog has been in total control over mehole not so much Leo when it was his turn

@Paul Clancy: they didn’t make decisions on his advice,his advice made their decisions for them and they always hid behind them,weak..handful of cases some days during summer and country in lockdown a farce it was

@Paul Clancy: or maybe Freudian Slip!

@alan scott: Ah you are so naive……its rather endearing.

@Tom Molloy: The opposition has made known their policies . The fact Martin loses the plot every time is questioned by the opposition. Bit contradictory of Martin when you recall when Martin and FF were last in opposition the kept Varadkar and FG in power with a confidence and supply agreement. Hypocrisy at it’s best.

@Rob Gale: definitely not true, I was in town Saturday night and while we did find 1 bar selling take out pints there was only a handful of people around it.

@GrumpyAulFella: I’d like to see some solid evidence that the unvaccinated are spreading omicron at a higher rate than the vaccinated. So far omicron seems to be rampant across the population – regardless of vaccination status – and thankfully has a much lower mortality rate than previous variants (in other words, perhaps it could be just the thing to bring us up to a level of herd immunity that would make all covid restrictions unnecessary). But if we’re serious about making viral load the key factor in societal participation, then why not ‘restrict’ the obese (who can carry up to 4x the viral load of people at a healthy weight), or the elderly, or those with compromised immune systems? What’s next in this utopia? Will smokers and drinkers be refused access to the cinema because of the burden they’re placing on the health system? Will paramedics be encouraged to abandon injured cyclists if they weren’t wearing a helmet?

@SheepleDog: You need to ease back on the plonk there cowboy.

@David Corrigan: I think we have a new one.

@G Row.: Freshly hired I’d say. €10 an hour job.

@David Corrigan: I noticed a few more of the old guard around here again lately and Patrick has gone missing, something in the air.

@SheepleDog: Agree with you. Not sure if people understand how privileged we are in Ireland

@Derek McDonnell: The problem is the privileged don’t care about anyone else.
Do you understand that?

@Derek McDonnell: that’s the problem there mate..we are actually too stupid to realize we live in a beautiful utopia with fantastic public services,health and education…back to bed for yourself Derek you were having a dream

@Derek McDonnell: that’s the problem there mate..we are actually too thick to realize we live in a beautiful utopia with fantastic public services,health and education…back to bed for yourself Derek you were having a dream

@David Corrigan: the amount of hired goons on this site is unreal. Copy and paste experts on all types of govt interest topics. I have to hand it to David Jordan he’s a learned journal scholar from anything from vaccines to covid, green energy to lithium mining with all the copy and paste to back it up.