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Two prisoners escape from London prison

It’s understood that the two men left mannequins in their beds.

TWO PRISONERS HAVE escaped from a prison in north London.

The Ministry for Justice confirmed that the escape happened at Pentonville prison this afternoon.

It’s widely reported that the two men were discovered missing when mannequins were found in their beds.

The BBC is reporting that the inmates used diamond-tipped cutting equipment to break through cell bars before they scaled the perimeter wall.

It’s understood that one of the men is serving a very long sentence.

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The category B prison holds 1,200 men and has been in operation since 1842.

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    Mute a.l
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    Aug 18th 2021, 11:52 AM

    Nearly 90 per cent of adult population vaccinated…..and still closed…mindboggling

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    Aug 18th 2021, 4:25 PM

    @a.l: it’s really not if you looked at the figures, just over 60% of the population are vaccinated…

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    Aug 18th 2021, 4:36 PM

    @John Black: But their statement was adult population.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 4:54 PM

    @John Black: unbelievable that u are still trying to include newborn babies and very young children in your percentages, have a long chat with yourself

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    Mute Hugo Bugo
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    Aug 18th 2021, 4:56 PM

    @John Black: explain to me what happened to protect the vulnerable narrative from only a few months back, what happened to that, you must be exhausted from constantly moving the goalposts

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    Aug 18th 2021, 4:59 PM

    @Hugo Bugo: well they do exist and can still transmit, that’s why it’s necessary to include them, like are you thick?

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    Aug 18th 2021, 4:59 PM

    @Hugo Bugo: Is protect the vulnerable a narrative to you? Wow.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:00 PM

    @Hugo Bugo: the goalposts have always remained the same and we protect the vulnerable by achieving herd immunity through vaccination

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:00 PM

    @John Black: Yes he is. But worse than that; he thinks he’s hilarious.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:24 PM

    @John Black: vaccinating newbron babies for a virus which will have zero effect on them, how low u and others have sunk in 18 months, get a hold of yourselves, history will not be kind to you

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    Mute Vonvonic
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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:32 PM

    @Hugo Bugo: Do you think people are creating their legacies on the Journal? If so, you’re doomed.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:34 PM

    @Hugo Bugo: the virus causes reduced cognitive function in everyone who catches it, so that happening so early in brain development could have significant negative impact
    Not saying they should be vaccinated, we need 90, not 100, but all adults and teenagers should get vaccinated in order to protect those who can’t be vaccinated
    I want to protect these children, you don’t care who dies in your pursuit of pushing your vile anti-vaxx agenda
    History has always been kind to those who are on the side of science, you are anti-science and anti-logic

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:49 PM

    @John Black: it is unbelievable that u don’t know yet that the vaccine does not stop transmission of this virus, so u will be happy at 90% yea, the new fake target, meanwhile in Israel, how many of your buzzword cases was there today, over 9000 yea in a country with 9 million population, I don’t know how u typed so many words while actually holding the goalposts again, you have moved them 5 times already today

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    Mute Hugo Bugo
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    Aug 18th 2021, 6:43 PM

    @John Black: vaccinate the vulnerable, that goalpost has not been moved, no?, not much, we’re now looking to vaccinate infants and still restrictions, israel imposing restrictions again as 9000+ cases, keep kidding yourself, keep pushing the boundaries just a little bit a day and keep justifying it, emergency vaccines, lockdowns, restrictions, vaccine passports, covid passes, what will u have to say when we are back in lockdown in a couple of months?, the shame, oh the shame

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    Aug 18th 2021, 6:50 PM

    @Hugo Bugo: just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean the goalposts have moved, we’re looking to protect the vulnerable, that included vaccinating them and everyone else that is able to be vaccinated.
    Yes because their vaccination rates are similar if not a little lower than ours, but opened too soon, a perfect example of what would happen us if we lifted restrictions now, thanks for proving the point that restrictions shouldn’t be lifted so soon yet again.
    We won’t be back in lockdown again so long as we keep moving it along slowly like we’re doing, other countries moved too soon and are having to close, we are moving at a good pace for our vaccination level.
    I’d love to believe beneath all your anti-vaxx idiocy there is a brain but it’s getting harder to believe.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 7:20 PM

    @John Black: its just so sad to witness people like u, the shame, oh the shame, we’ll chat again when your perfect Irish strategy goes belly up in a few months and u are exhausted from moving the goalposts again, but u will continue to swallow whatever drivel they tell u, lol

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    Aug 18th 2021, 7:28 PM

    @Hugo Bugo: I’ve never once moved the goalposts
    The strategy isn’t perfect, but it’s going good for now and going better than most other countries.
    There have been studies into the minds of anti-vaxxers and it shows that they are less intelligent, less educated, lonelier and are more narcissistic. I hope you get the help you need, lol

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    Aug 18th 2021, 8:26 PM

    @a.l: a joke, unless you are a seriously struggling music performer

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    Aug 18th 2021, 10:30 PM

    @Ciarán O’ Donoghue: so they could look great, young children can get it and spread it

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    Aug 18th 2021, 11:51 PM

    @Ian James Burgess: Hold on, the original statement was adults, the reply was all population. He was being thick, in his own words.

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    Mute albhbc
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    Aug 19th 2021, 1:25 AM

    @Hugo Bugo: why not?

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    Aug 19th 2021, 1:47 AM

    @John Black: im perfectly happy not being a snowflake and a government lackey and the only education u get is what rte, the journal and the government feeds u,vaccinating newborn babies and infants with an experiment vaccine to protect them from a virus which has a less than 0.5% chance of having any affect on them whatsoever, the shame, oh the shame, I will let history judge u :)

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    Aug 19th 2021, 6:28 AM

    @Hugo Bugo: and the only education you get is the crazies on Facebook hahahahaha
    The vaccine isn’t experimental, it’s actually the most well researched vaccine before release in the history of humanity
    Well it actually has a 100% chance of reducing cognitive function so there’s more misinformation from you again and the vaccine has less than a 0.5% chance of having any bad effects of them so really you’re saying it’s way way way safer to get the vaccine
    History will be on my side, it’s always on the side of science, never the side of you and the crazy people

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    Aug 19th 2021, 6:51 AM

    @John Black: “100 % chance”? Ah pseudoscience, it’s great isn’t it?

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    Aug 19th 2021, 8:01 AM

    @JedBartlett: well it’s been found in everyone tests have been done on so far so it would suggest that it’s at 100% (now perhaps it’s 99.99999% or some very very large percentage, but it’s been found in everyone so far)

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    Aug 18th 2021, 11:33 AM

    If not why not– let us know the vaccines don’t work or let things open

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    Aug 18th 2021, 4:25 PM

    @chiqey: vaccines don’t work in people that don’t have them, not enough people are vaccinated (just over 60%)

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    Aug 18th 2021, 4:27 PM

    @John Black: Mind-blowing and depressing how many people haven’t grasped this very simple logic. How far down the Facebook rabbit hole can you go? Reality v alt reality.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 4:43 PM

    @Vonvonic: with all due respect, one of the biggest metropolis in the world and naturally one of the worst effected by COVID, New York, lifted ALL restrictions when 70% of the ADULT population were fully vaccinated. So what exactly is our excuse at 90%? Other than being a nation of absolute cowards I can’t actually see one…

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    Aug 18th 2021, 4:47 PM

    @Eoin Jackson: You would be correct except that we’re nowhere near 90% fully vaccinated. You only have to compare now with January to see that they work and there has been far more socializing going on this summer than last Christmas.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:00 PM

    @Vonvonic: iv no question whatsoever that vaccines work i am not questioning that for one minute. My question is when do we stop trembling with fear and lift the remaining restriction? It boils my blood when i see st.upid comments like “yeah we might have X amount of adults fully vaccinated but only 60% of the entire population”. The entire population has not been used as a metric by any other country, just here in ireland. Its the goalposts moving again which people are so incredibly done with! Many countries are fully open with lower vax rates than we have. Many more countries are a lot more open than we are with lower vax rates. Whats the hold up here? Other than cowardice? If New York, given their population density and population number can fully open at 70%, why can’t we?

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:02 PM

    @Eoin Jackson: I agree with you that we should be opening much more swiftly. But we are only 60ish% vaccinated. They’re erring on the side of caution. Whether you agree with them or not; it’s a valid strategy. Think Voltaire.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:06 PM

    @John Black: So why can’t they limit entry to vaccinated person only. If it’s working for indoor dining don’t see why it can’t work for an outdoor festival.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:10 PM

    @Roy Dowling: they were going to

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:11 PM

    @Roy Dowling: I can’t understand that either. And it would have been a great incentive for people who wanted to attend to get vaccinated.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:12 PM

    @John Black: spoke to someone this morning who was at the doctor. Person is fully vaccinated were talking about the vaccine. Doctor said not to hold a lot of store in it as this vaccine will not protect you from the virus. Stressed the fact even though your vaccinated you could and will get very sick if you catch it.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:14 PM

    @Roy Dowling: would it not be better to allow negative people into events, I’d rather that than be mingling with positive people who think they’re immune just because they were double jabbed.
    Most other countries have been using antigen testing for nearly a year now & not a problem, negative test in ye go and enjoy the evening

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:18 PM

    @Dave Barrett: Wasn’t Phillip Nolan was it?

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:26 PM

    @Mark Dowling:  ”Compared to molecular tests, antigen tests are more likely to generate false negative results, especially when performed on people who don’t have symptoms.” Yale medicine- August 10th.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:41 PM

    @Dave Barrett: well the doctor is incorrect as the data shows that the vaccine does in fact protect you. Yes it is not 100% and you can still catch it but a seat belt doesn’t stop you dying in a car accident but it offers protection.
    The data also shows that while you could get sick, your risk of severe illness is reduced by a drastic amount.
    So either you misinterpreted what the doctor said, or you’re making this up.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:43 PM

    @John Black: These doctors who are spreading alt reality need to get their licences checked while they go back to school imo.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:48 PM

    @Mark Dowling: Personally I’d have no problem with that. But for some reason our government and nphet don’t seem to like antigen testing. So until there stance on them change, its should be no digital covid cert no entry.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:49 PM

    @Robert Clifford: No. New article on the journal popped up. Gives what I was saying something to think on.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 6:01 PM

    @John Black: saying it as it was told. It would be great if every one could sing from the same hymm sheet. Agreed the vaccine isn’t 100%.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 6:34 PM

    @Dave Barrett: well then that doctor is spreading dangerous misinformation. The vaccine does significantly reduce risk of catching it and getting ill.
    The vaccine isn’t 100% but no vaccine in history is, even the most successful ones, it’s unrealistic to expect it to be 100%, everyone that can take the vaccine should be getting vaccinated.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 8:15 PM

    @Eoin Jackson: Sleeping in strangers TENTS

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    Aug 18th 2021, 10:34 PM

    @Dave Barrett: exactly, I have relatives UK from 16 to 35 ,fully vaccinated who have caught it and have felt awful for over a week and passed it on to very young children in the house so we are far from out of the woods yet

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    Aug 18th 2021, 10:37 PM

    @Vonvonic: amazing how Leo,being a doctor still seems clueless most of the time

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    Aug 18th 2021, 3:34 PM

    It’s an utter shambles. Yet another fruitless meeting with Catherine Martin who is a perfect example of the lack of leadership this government is portraying. I just happened to flick over to the racing from York there and it’s packed to the rafters. Full grounds over the weekend in the UK. Friends just back from Scotland, Prague, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Copenhagen and they’re completely open for indoor gigs, outdoor concerts and pretty much everything else. While Ireland languishes in the Stone Age and props up the opening up table regarding live music and arts. Totally wrong in my view.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 4:20 PM

    @Robert Clifford: not helped by the fact that Martin is totally clueless and a shocking example of a minister who has no understanding of their brief.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:36 PM

    @Robert Clifford: is shambles your favorite word, or do you just have a limited vocabulary? You use shambles to describe everything.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:39 PM

    @Robert Clifford: Goalposts constantly moving in Ireland. Other countries reduce restrictions when it’s safe to do so. We remove restrictions, never, even when 90% of the adult population is vaccinated.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:43 PM

    @Sean O’Doherty: No Sean I have a vast vocabulary to work from but yes shambles is right up there as one of my favourite words. And that’s favourite with a u Sean. Learn how to spell if you’re going to be a critic.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 6:12 PM

    @Paul Shepherd: he is spineless

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    Aug 18th 2021, 6:44 PM

    @Robert Clifford: I’m an American.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 7:05 PM

    @Sean O’Doherty: Ahh it’s ok so…….

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    Aug 18th 2021, 10:21 PM

    @Paul Shepherd: we have 3 different parties with 3 different ideologies with a taoiseach who is more interested in his own ego than that of the people he serves. FG using every opportunity to undermine him. Greens are not doing themselves any favours. Then they use NHEPT as a fallback rather than holding them to account. Then there’s COVID that’s affecting everyone

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    Aug 19th 2021, 1:43 PM

    @Paul Shepherd: unbelievable to see a government minister coming out in disagreement with the cabinet subcommittee and urging the industry to lobby the government of which she is a minister. New lows

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    Aug 18th 2021, 3:16 PM

    The lack of political leadership on the pandemic lately is staggering. We have come a long way from weekly updates at lofty press conferences from the then Taoiseach Vradker. Now they roll out healthcare professionals or civil servants to do the dirty work and tell us what to do.
    Is it that Michael Martin doesn’t care or is bored of it. Declare it over, give people their lives back or come out and explain why we can’t. We have done everything we were asked, time for our government to do their job.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 3:23 PM

    @john doe: They’re all on their holidays, so clearly the medical emergency is on hold till they are back. Plus they are still keeping their heads down from the Zappone/hotel party fiasco.

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    Aug 19th 2021, 12:53 AM

    @Alan Wright: FG have booked a shin dig if the conditions are right (if the weather is good they may even have a barbeque)

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:06 PM

    By the end of the month we’re going to have around 90% of the adult population fully vaccinated and yet we’ve still no plan. Still can’t get accurate figures of who many are in hospital and icu getting treatment for Covid 19. Radio silence from out politicians. And then to add insult to injury, people who are still not allowed work by government restrictions will be moved onto social welfare.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 4:11 PM

    Unfortunately the music and entertainment lobby is not that strong. I’ve never heard of the MEAI until this article and I’m in music all my working life.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 4:21 PM

    @Sean Treacy: Whilst a lobbying group like the LVA or IHF does and did help with the reopening of hospitality, it should never have come to that nor should an entertainment and arts sector require a lobby group to put pressure on these parasites. It’s there for all to see.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:10 PM

    @Robert Clifford: you are right but unfortunately that seems to be the way of the world

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    Aug 18th 2021, 10:39 PM

    Whoever is lobbying for the gaa is doing done job considering numbers allowed to croke park but not allowed to a concert ??????

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    Aug 18th 2021, 5:47 PM

    Ha,who cares about (outdoor events) when people are still getting very sick and dying?

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    Aug 18th 2021, 7:40 PM

    @brendan wood: people get sick and die every day, literally every day since the history of mankind. So on that logic we should never have had outdoor events or cared for them as there was always people getting sick and dying. So that’s what we should do now, have no more entertainment or enjoyment in life ever again and just patiently wait for the day we eventually get sick and die. A bit of cop on needed by you there I’d say.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 10:36 PM

    @Eoin Jackson: That’s exactly what a sizeable amount of Irish people would like, by the sounds of these comment sections.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 10:38 PM

    @brendan wood: Using your logic, we’ll never have a concert ever again on Irish soil. So would you like if we had to go to France or Germany for our entertainment?

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    Aug 19th 2021, 1:31 AM

    @brendan wood: What an ridículous comment. Let’s just cancel life & living altogether shall we? I mean I could die going to work in the morning, better just pack it in & stay at home forever, just to be on the cautions side.

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    Aug 19th 2021, 10:53 AM

    @Eoin Jackson: thats a ridiculously reductionist argument to make. We know everyone will die so using your logic whats the point in having medical treatment at all? They’re going to die anyway. In fact, let’s get rid of seat belts, life guards, police, safety standards. They don’t change the fact we will die so why have them at all? Using phrases like “no more” and “ever again” is just sensationalism designed to make your statement (it could not be described as an argument no matter how generous i am feeling) more emotive. I have no problem with critique of government policy but at least do it with facts and rationality.

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    Aug 19th 2021, 3:09 PM

    @Gerard Smith: facts and rationality? Ok heres one; New York fully reopened its society in June when 70% of their adult population was fully vaccinated. Opened everything. New York is not comparable to us in terms of population density or number. Hence why it was originally brought to it’s knees by covid. They have not looked back. We have a smaller population and a much more minute population density per sq km. We currently have 83% of adults fully vaccinated. And we do not even have a plan to open many sectors of society including outdoor concerts.

    And then you have absolute drips like the original poster making ridiculous statements like he just has. My comment was absolutely sensationalist and absolutely full of hyperbole. It was meant to be. It was to mirror the original post. Melt!

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    Aug 18th 2021, 10:39 PM

    Whoever is lobbying for the gaa is doing some job considering numbers allowed to croke park but not allowed to a concert ??????

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    Aug 18th 2021, 8:14 PM

    Its NOT the Musical Gathering They are worried about its the SLEEPING in TENTS afterwards…#Superspreader

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    Aug 19th 2021, 1:19 AM

    All I can say with living in Galway, thank God for busking, if it wasn’t for street buskers and musicians we’d go completely mad, hopefully they don’t start on the buskers next.

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    Aug 18th 2021, 9:58 PM

    Wow he failed to mention the Latitude Covid Spike. His own Gig.
    https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/health/east-suffolk-covid-rate-falls-after-latitude-festival-8235076
    This man wants 70k who as soon as they get in will be up on shoulders and hopping off each other. But as seen above in Latitiude is fine except its locals that will pay the cost in case spikes and vunerable deaths.. Kids are the last cohort not to be vaccinated there are vulnerable kids in every county. So a spike like above is for some famlies terrifying. However small time musicians earning a wage again should be happening. Double Vaxed musicians, on stage in doors. You just cannot cram them tight for awhile until the threat fades.Events that hospitals can absorb no greater cases from that than the local boozer. .

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    Aug 18th 2021, 10:50 PM

    @Albert Brennerman: Firstly, it was a minor case increase which since normalized according to the same article. Secondly, Electric Picnic would have had vaccination as a requirement – a more stringent approach than Latitude. Either way, shocking how the sector continues to be ignored. We have failed big time on this one and it genuinely seems the government doesn’t give a toss.

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    Mute Margaret Kane
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    Aug 19th 2021, 11:47 AM

    People in France won’t be let into supermarkets if they haven’t got a covid passport shocking what’s going on in the world

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    Aug 18th 2021, 10:51 PM

    Nifty 50 in the, Mifty, great off you go

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    Mute Mary Nugent
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    Aug 19th 2021, 3:09 AM

    Green minister green with envy.

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