@Dara O’Brien that sounds like some cheap shot at the FG Minster! especially at a time,when their massive wave covid 19 virus cases going hit our island ! possible resulting in lost of live of thousands Irish people like we never seen in our history.

@Barry Evans: yes – also knobs.

@Bobby wilson: 1) I don’t care what party he’s from – travelling then was dumb.

2) your post is hard to read.

@Bobby wilson: Can you please take a breath, use punctuation.

@Barry Evans: our ministers are meant to make an example. There’s no defending here… Cmon like

@Dara O’Brien: Your comment is despicable. So what, you got likes. He travelled before any advisories. Family visit reason. You don’t know why and its none of your business.
And the man self isolated. Acting with good authority when he came home to changed cirumstances. You, and the many others commenting with sneers and easy jibes should have a good look at yourselves. This does not help.

@Ross: what David Glynn said! Put any petty party politics aside. The man visited a relative before travel restrictions were advised. Contact Are Lingus and Ryanair and see how many passengers they’ve carried (and still carry) in the last week. Suggesting he should have been a shining example for not travelling is petty and weak! Everyone who stood shoulder to shoulder in Cheltenham handling dirty cash for 5 days should come in for far more criticism!

@David Glynn: we all know eoghan is your hero, not all are whipped like you tho.
Great that hes able to self isolate on full pay and not worry about his rent or mortgage. Hes an example to us all.

@Sam Greene: I am not an FG supporter. Nor is he my hero. Not by a long chalk. But I think he is a decent man whose political inexperience told.
In a time of crisis your begrudging comments do not serve you well or the community at large.
Think and reflect.

@David Glynn: u think and reflect on your constant arrogant comments. The real heroes here are the healthcare workers, not a few well paid polititions who u throw flowers at.

@Sam Greene: Well said Sam! Your mans a knob end!
Always on here hammering SF and trying to turn every article political.
Complete and utter troll and complete hypocrite!

@Sam Greene: You have a real problem posting at your such an ungodly hour. And when you are challenged nothing to say.

@Pád: Since the crisis deepened not one political comment from me including about SF. In a time of real crisis the nation needs to pull together. Its called patriotism.
Try it.

@David Glynn: Come down from your ivory tower you despicable excuse for a human being!
I’ve never come across anyone as hypocritical as you!

@Joe: you have to start somewhere big man Joe the troll.. Come out from under the bridge… 3 week campaign and a nominal budget, I was happy with the outcome and the experience. Despite the short period of time to campaign and knowing that the likes of yourself would try use it against me, it wouldn’t deter me.
Do you look at the profile of everyone that comments to try make little of them – I pity you

@ian croft: There is no evidence this will cause a long recession, hopefully this will last a few months and then nearly all the businesses will open up again. If that’s the case it will add a little to the national debt which has fallen 50% from 120% of GDP to 60% in the last 7 years.

@Laughable: i love your optimism. Many are suggesting this will rock the global economy and it will take years to recover.
Although the debt is 60% of GDP as it stands, we’re still screwed trying to pay all that interest back on the bail out, we still owe over 230bn.
I don’t think we will come out of this in good shape. A few weeks ago I laughed it off as a bad dose of the flu, now I’m genuinely worried of the social and economic impact. 140k jobs already lost in Ireland

@ian croft: In relation to the bank bailout/national debt people have to also consider that technology is making job’s redundant at pace! I would never use GDP as a figure for output due to repatriated profit’s to MNC’s etc. GNP is the better measure! But come to to the same conclusion were screwed and will probably have to default at some stage?

@Daniel Kelly: you probably won’t believe this Daniel but I’m saying it for years. No sector is safe from automation. Taxi drivers will take a big hit in one clean sweep in 10 to 20 years but in the time being the rest of us will be dropped off one by one. I’m genuinely fed up trying to warn people, they keep telling me I’m crazy! From time to time I’ve spoken to others that have lived the reality and lost good jobs, and now they are on the CE scheme or some zero hour contract. I genuinely worry how laid back people are about the whole thing.. You seem to have the head screwed on about it anyway…

@Laughable: nobody booking flights now means nobody travelling to Ireland this tourist season, that’s a huge hit to pubs, restaurants, accommodation businesses, taxis, shops and many more businesses. I can’t see them hiring on the same amount of staff coming into the loss making autumn/winter period so a lot of these lay offs will be for an extended period. A lot of these workers are saving deposits to buy a house and are now going to have to eat into those savings (of they are lucky enough to have them) and therefore won’t be able to buy houses which will lead to a downturn in the construction economy which will lead to lay offs and less demand. This is highly unlikely to be a short dip and back to normal situation.

@JusticeForJoe: if you took any notice of other stories you might learn that Air BNB is at the heart of housing problem in Url, sine there is a huge drop in tourists the amount of apartments for rent in Dublin went from 9 to 94 in two weeks. The hotels where tourists should be is full of tourists while apart are full of visitors and so on. All of this is the fault of mainly Irish people who are greedy. letting out to A BnB it’s not the ministers fault.

@Caoimhín: that’s not what he asked. Murphy continued to state a rent freeze was unconstitutional even though we were/ are going through an emergency in homeless /housing. Or isn’t it fashionable to care about that anymore?

@Tommy Byrne: I’d imagine Covid falls under the Emergency Powers act.

@Gerard Anthony McBride: homelessness doesn’t ???

@Tommy Byrne: in times like this maximum latitude would be allowed by supreme court.

@SFAnkleTapper: but just goes to show it can be done if they want to do it !!

@Jason Ebbs: in a way his education and lifestyle is a lot owed to the misdeeds of his grandfather so yeah. He would not have his current position in life without the head start his father had.

@Dino: he was 18 months old when his grandfather died !!