@james burke: I agree ,, my daughter is in Letterkenny IT. And they were told they would have to attend class twice a week.so the have 3 days sitting around with only a few assignments to do. Kids will meet up .
They should’ve told them it was on line for a few months.

@james burke: no, they were all forced down there by landlords who were instructed by the gov, SF are probably to blame too.

@james burke: you don’t blame the students? Really? Each one of them crowded there made the decision to be there in an unsafe way. There has to be some personal responsibility here. If it’s crowded, get out of there. It’s on them and nobody else.

@james burke: Why would you not blame them. They are meant to be responsible adults, that’s what they want you to think they are. They choose to do this, nobody made them do it.

@james burke: I do… They want to treated like Adults and behave like petulant kids . Grow up and set an example to the next generation…

@james burke: Exactly

@DERMOT: its the governments fault your daughter had nothing to do and therefore their fault thats she would inevitably meet her friends? Seriously. Couldnt teach her better than that, no fault of her own?

@Maurice Egan: Good Man Maurice. Government decisions have led to hundreds of 17/18 year olds living together in (most likely shared) student accommodation for students then to be told there is no need for them to be there. Any cl*wn (except yourself) would’ve known that students would be studying from home this year since July. This is a result of governments lack of foresight.

@Kate Mchugh: I’d say a huge portion of the crowd aren’t adults.

@james burke: That we can agree on. Tall children.

@james burke: It’s far from a lack of foresight it’s helping out the landlords at the expense of the parents of the students how much student accommodation does boxer moran own in Athlone

@Dave Barrett: You seem to be agreeing with his comment, but he’s saying he doesn’t believe it happened and your saying it was a staff member who caused it. Instead of the nodding dog approach to anyone who appears to be “on your side”, why didn’t you call him out on his non-belief when you seem to know that it actually happened and who caused it ?

@Virus-free Turkey: have you been in some cork city pubs tables less than meter away from each other i can believe the numbers lack of responsibility by pub owners may have caused this

@Virus-free Turkey: It was linked to one person who worked in the bar. They had symptoms but kept working until tested positive it then spread to family members and friends. So far no customers have contracted it according to reputable news sources. O’Glynn is well aware of this he already made a statement now he seems to be twisting the narrative to incite these inflammatory headlines. Its disgraceful.

@Anna Anna: this was 70 of the 350 cases in Cork. This means that 80% of cases were not pub/restaurant related, possibly related to events in houses etc.

@SandraMeyler: of course they were NPHET said that yesterday but of course that doesn’t make click bait headlines like pubs/restaurants do!!!

@Mike Litterus: The World Health Organisation does indeed care.

@Mike Litterus:
Anybody with a scrap of sense and out of respect for others.

@Mike Litterus: Securicor cares

@Mike Litterus:
Galway has been very careful… We don’t expect to see that kind of crap and I am wondering what are the cops doing?

That area has two/three exits… They were causing a racket so they have broken the law, disturbing the peace. Ask every to go in under a minute…

After a minute close off all exits… Names, addresses and IDs of all that is left… No IDs then picture and name of college as well… If you lie we will put your face in the news paper to find you… So don’t lie..

Refuse to cooperate and arrested and detained…

@Lee Galiezitte: shut the universities then and start issuing heavy fines.

@RampantMisanthropy: Yeah I dont agree with fining the people but all university classes should be online. Theres been plenty of time to prepare for that. We need to focus of Gov policy and not turn on our neighbours. Divide and conquer is what they want. Small businesses cant go online but Universities can so we should prioritize business, jobs and economy as well as health.

@Lee Galiezitte: Oh I think we are. I can give you 3 examples of healthy and fit and in their twenties work colleagues of mine, still suffering the affects months down the line.

@Kate Mchugh: That’s anecdotal evidence. I know several people who have zero affects months later. I’m talking about scientific studies not just hearsay.

@Gary Kearney: “the longer effects of Covid-19 are proving to be nasty as hell”

I’ve heard many people making this claim yet none of them can back it up with any evidence. The best you get is ‘a friend of a friend said his brother…blah, blah, blah….’
Think for one moment. How can you possibly know of the long term affects of a virus that has been with us for less then a year?
Stop spreading irrational fears.

@Will: You can literally Google “long term effects of COVID” and get the evidence you’re dying for. Ignorance born of laziness is the worst type imo

@Darren McEneaney: You can also google academic, academic, plandemic and get results.
Try google do masks work and you will get lots of different views from doctors, scientists epidemiologists etc.

Suits your scared narrative is all.

@Darren McEneaney: you can also google ‘What are the long term effects of unemployment?’

@David Linehan: we stayed there in August and there was a large group of people outside from about 1am screaming and singing for a good 3 hours. Somehow I doubt there was much social distancing going on.

@FlyingDogThing: yep I was in Salthill and Tramore and both places looked as though covid 19 didn’t exist. The restaurants and hotels did have restrictions, but people of all ages were milling about regardless.

@Stephen Walsh: social distancing while half caned, get real

@Joe Vlogs: this was just so avoidable but the price could be huge. If an outbreak does come from this these students will also bring it home with them and risk spreading it further. I just cant fathom the logic behind it.

@Derek Lyster: yeah all them increased cases numbers that followed the BLM protests. (That is of course sarcasm)

@Aunties: 1 million people have died due to Covid-19 is that a joke too.
Protect the vulnerable, age apartheid.
How exactly would you protect the vulnerable?
Who would you class as vulnerable?

@Aunties: What’s stopping all those things is some people’s behaviour re disregard for public health advice and guidelines during a serious worldwide pandemic!There would be a substantial decrease in lockdowns if people did their best to adhere to the public health advice and guidelines.
People in all age groups can have underlying conditions but can live(&go to University,work,etc )normal lives with medication.Also people can experience long term complications after this Coronavirus infection including previously healthy people &theres no way of telling how the infection will manifest in a particular person.
When one sees large crowds meeting and taking into account what Prof Philip Nolan said last week ie that 1 person infecting 6 people now,it is worrying.

@Aunties: look at this things tweets. A so called Christian.

@Gary Kearney: “How exactly would you protect the vulnerable?”

Emmm… maybe wash hands, keep your distance, wear a mask.
Also, we all have to take personal responsibility for our own well being and that includes those who are vulnerable due to age or infirmity.
Expecting the government to keep you safe is not a good strategy.

“Protect the vulnerable, age apartheid.”

The virus doesn’t discriminate. It will infect anyone it can. The fact that the old and infirm are more at risk is just bad luck on their part.
In this context your charge of ‘age apartheid’ is meaningless.
If you fall into this bracket, protect yourself!

@Trevor Branigan: If they catch the virus the expose everyone they meet to the virus.
Is that a sensible thing to do.
As that is the reality, they could be asymptomatic but carriers.
Typhoid Marys for Covid-19

@Trevor Branigan: not saying that they are incapable of looking after themselves but if they contract it from a younger person in the family who has been out partying then they have a higher chance of being hospitalised or worse.

@GrumpyAulFella: true. But that’s part of the risk that college goers and their parents/grandparents have to assess for themselves. If a family member is so vulnerable that contracting CV would likely lead to hospitalisation or worse, then they need to take responsibility for themselves and ensure they limit their exposure. Its all well and good criticising young college goers considering we were never asked to curtail our youth the way they are being asked. Its easy to be critical of things that won’t effect us. A lot of this circles around what ifs and possibilities a way. Total confirmed cases in Ireland still reside below 1% of the population, so either the measures we have taken so far are working or the virus is not as rampant as people think.

@Trevor Branigan: yeah no doubt. Young asymptomatic carriers will be the real problem and we have to remember that more vulnerable people have never been asked to cocoon like this before. So while the young people may have to forego some partying the grandparents may be foregoing a lot more if they contract it. But nothing we can do about it if people don’t act responsibly to suppress it.

@Trevor Branigan: So am I we are not fecking eejits

@GrumpyAulFella: will you say the same about kids in school who contract it. They are also bringing it out to their friends, parents and grandparents. Considering how serious it is schools should not be opened at least not to full capacity.

@GrumpyAulFella: I think in general we need to choose our words more diplomatically. I wouldn’t describe those who are asymptomatic as a problem. Thankfully they’re the vast majority and hopefully the distribution stays that way. I could more accurately describe those who end up in ICU as the problem as theyre the ones requiring all the attention and expense, but that’s not very compassionate.

I don’t know how auld of a grump you are – I’m fairly cantankerous myself – but expecting young people to do what old people consider wise has been the folly of many for eons. College in particular is the first step towards independence for a lot of young people. They’ve been working towards it their whole school going lives. Asking them not to socialise in what is the social environment they have been working towards is a huge and somewhat unrealistic expectation. Especially as we were never asked to do anything like it ourselves. So I would refer back to my point, as unpopular as it may be, that the onus to look after ones self rests with one’s self whether you be young, old or somewhere in between.

@Franny Ando: no I wouldn’t put kids going to school for a mandatory education in the same category as gangs of students going out on the lash together for the fun of it during a pandemic. The schools have to remain open IMO. We have to learn live with this in some kind of controlled form. But it does mean that everyone has to take personal responsibility for his/her actions.

@Trevor Branigan: difficult to argue with any of that Trevor. I’m not sure what the solution is other than persistent messaging. The only alternative may be enforcement and that won’t be pretty.

@Bren: laws or covid laws? Our health minister is introducing special laws to restrict peoples freedoms. Allowing guards to enter peoples homes without a warrant goes against the constitution!

@great gael of Eire: They want to restrict the spread of a virus that’s killing a lot of people here and worldwide. They started off asking people nicely but then people like yourself took the pi$$ and here we are today. So thank you for letting this happen.

@Stephen Walsh: You’ve just caught yourself out there. In a reply to a comment above you said you had never seen anything like the scenes last night because you live right beside it, now your moaning about the guards hassling the pubs and not stopping the hugh crowds who gather. Make up your mind.

@Olivia Smith: yes there’s crowds gathering on shop st, Eyre Square and other streets in in the city centre outside the pubs that the Gardai just walk past whilst going from pub to pub, ‘telling off’ the managers. At the Spanish Arch area, which isn’t directly beside any bars, there hasn’t been a crowd like that all year. There isn’t really anything confusing about what I’ve said.

@Stephen Walsh: You said there have been nothing like the crowds last night, then you said there have been crowds gathering. That’s 2 different answers you have given.

@Jonathan Beatty: I agree..

@Olivia Smith: it was implied that there were similar crowds at the Spanish arch all year – there hasn’t been. There have been crowds on the streets away from there over the last week since the pubs have reopened that Gardai have ignored because they’ve been told by their new sergeant to focus on pubs

@Anthony Lambe: “staggered times don’t work. You know yourself that when one pub closes the patrons will move to the next pub”

Then from the first staggered closing time no pubs should be allowed to admit any more punters.
However, this would have to be policed and I wouldn’t depend on that happening.

@Will: everyone would just go to the pub that closes the latest

@Cynical: And you were never young. God!, it must be to be some cross to carry been born perfect.

@Jack Cass: I’d say you use that line with all the girls.

@Jack Cass: We were all young at some stage but not in the middle of a pandemic.

@Cynical: how many have been going for a drink in a local shebeen following a local football match or sit in the shebeen and watch it on a big screen TV. I know of 3 in the area I live in alone not a mention in the media nor gardai seem to care. People in glass house’s shouldn’t throw stones applies here I think

@Hugh Mc Donnell: You’re comparing apples to oranges.

@Eric O Shea: because the risk stays with them? You think each one of them is going to self-isolate for two weeks? It’s called community transmission. People can do all the responsible things and still end up getting sick because of m0r0ns like these idi0ts and you.

@Eric O Shea: Why should anyone have to hide away because you want to go partying. Don’t be a dìckhead and have a bit of respect for others.

@Eric O Shea: Be careful with that kind of sensible approach on this thread.

@Joe Vlogs: see Joe vlogs..that’s the problem. You resort to name calling because you are losing the argument. You have to learn to respect other people’s opinions and choices.
You can avoid interacting with them students can’t you? Most classes are online now. You said you’re “TRYING” (which means you don’t always) to social distance etc..continue to that and how does it affect you? Go home and lock yourself in your room if you’re so scared. I doubt very much you’re in your twenties, you sound like a bitter old man

@Cliff Burnby: why should everyone have to hide away because you are scared of the virus?

@Cliff Burnby: and I actually have no interest in partying to be honest..I’m a bit of a hermit but I don’t think it’s fair to chastise people for what everyone did at that age

@Eric O Shea: I’m a teaching assistant, so by the very nature of my work I interact with university students. There is no way I can socially isolate myself, so yes I “try”, but unless I refuse to fulfill my contact there is no way I can fully eliminate my social contacts. While I don’t have any known health problems, I have family and friends that do. Basically now everytime that I see my family, I feel like I risk spreading a disease to them. Your solution is that I just not see them, so that people can be irresponsible. So yes, that is why I aptly called you the name I did.

@Joe Vlogs: My point entirely, locking ourselves away because some gobshìtes can’t be arsed following health guidelines is not a solution. And no Eric, I didn’t ever put anyone else’s health at risk when I was their age, speak for yourself.

@Joe Vlogs: obviously you shouldn’t be teaching anyone when you resort to name calling when someone doesn’t agree with you. Really tolerant of you!! If you’re worried about your health or those around you, you know what to do. Stay away from them, meet them outside..very simple..not rocket science.
Your thinking is” if I can’t enjoy myself, no one can”.
You should quit your job and go on the dole, tell them you’re scared of the virus and lock yourself inside. For those of us who want to live our lives, we will get on with it.

@Cliff Burnby: lock yourself away if you’re so scared. Then who’s health are they risking?
You can stay at home, nobody’s stopping you.
All you people so scared, just stay at home.. don’t impose your fears on everyone else.
Ye just can’t stand the idea of anyone enjoying themselves while you are so scared staying at home. You can do a full lockdown yourself with out interfering with everyone else’s life.
They are only risking the health of those who choose to be around them…you have a choice…stay at home..

@Eric O Shea: If you genuinely think social responsibility equates fear, then that unfortunately is only a reflection of your limited mental faculty, and not of reality. I have a social service to perform, assisting my students in their learning. Don’t worry though, you would never have gotten the points to take the modules I’m teaching.

@Eric O Shea:
Geez, you sound like a right party animal yourself. Obstruct any more Gardai?
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/corkman/news/fish-seller-flushed-drug-when-the-gardai-arrived-29359560.html

@Eric O Shea: Being responsible, like the vast majority of the population are, does not equate to being scared. Do you think ignoring health advice makes you tough or something? It doesn’t, it just means you’re stùpìd and will prolong the misery for everyone. I’m not going to waste any more time on you, you’ve obviously decided you know more than health experts already.

@Eric O Shea: So people who probably don’t have the virus should lock themselves up indefinitely to protect people who are much more likely to have the virus? People who could die from the virus should lock themselves up indefinitely to protect those unlikely to be sick at all, to protect the party lifestyle of trainee alcoholics? People who have obeyed the restrictions should now lock themselves up indefinitely to protect the spoilt and self-indulgent who actions have directly led to the failure of all the effort over the last 6 months of the majority?

I got an idea. YOU lot lock yourselves up indefinitely. The rest of us will follow government advice, and get the disease under control again all the quicker, and then you can come out and be with normal, decent people again.

@Cliff Burnby: you seem like the type of guy if they told you we had to walk on all fours, you’d be the first there Down on all 4′s with the leash around your neck!