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Botha Boy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 11:58 pm I see @RiochtConor2 is putting down his daily spreadsheet of Irish COVID data on Twitter.

No one can complain after the stint he has put in.

New job apparently ... or having to go back to the office possibly!


He has been a great even-handed source of data at times when you felt we were being spun by the official sources.

Good luck to him.

Botha Boy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 11:58 pm I see @RiochtConor2 is putting down his daily spreadsheet of Irish COVID data on Twitter.

No one can complain after the stint he has put in.

New job apparently ... or having to go back to the office possibly!


He has been a great even-handed source of data at times when you felt we were being spun by the official sources.

Good luck to him.

Nolanator wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 3:00 pm

iarmhiman wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 2:59 pm

normilet wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 2:54 pm Just got the flu shot. I wonder if the uptake this year will be higher or lower than in the non-covid times.

Is the flu shot available to everyone now?

Will I be able to take a day off to recover from it, like with Pfizer?

redderneck wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 5:43 pm And in the other corner of the schoolyard, the girls are busy playing hopscotch and hoping none of the lads suggest playing tittie-tag during big break again.

Blackrock Bullet wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:18 pm https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0929/12497 ... -hangouts/

This is a good idea but there is no chance I am getting on the Red Line at night as Dublin currently is.

CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 9:03 am

Botha Boy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 11:58 pm I see @RiochtConor2 is putting down his daily spreadsheet of Irish COVID data on Twitter.

No one can complain after the stint he has put in.

New job apparently ... or having to go back to the office possibly!


He has been a great even-handed source of data at times when you felt we were being spun by the official sources.

Good luck to him.

Noooooooooo..!

Sort of puts a full stop to the whole thing though. You'd hope.

anonymous_joe wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:15 am

Blackrock Bullet wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:18 pm https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0929/12497 ... -hangouts/

This is a good idea but there is no chance I am getting on the Red Line at night as Dublin currently is.

It only really gets rough out of town.

Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:43 am

CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 9:03 am

Botha Boy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 11:58 pm I see @RiochtConor2 is putting down his daily spreadsheet of Irish COVID data on Twitter.

No one can complain after the stint he has put in.

New job apparently ... or having to go back to the office possibly!


He has been a great even-handed source of data at times when you felt we were being spun by the official sources.

Good luck to him.

Noooooooooo..!

Sort of puts a full stop to the whole thing though. You'd hope.

He was the Twitter poster you could have been statto, if you hadn’t pissed away all your time on here arguing with DAC and Bimbo

DeDoc wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:57 am

anonymous_joe wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:15 am

Blackrock Bullet wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:18 pm https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0929/12497 ... -hangouts/

This is a good idea but there is no chance I am getting on the Red Line at night as Dublin currently is.

It only really gets rough out of town.

I haven't used it very often, and never at night. I also haven't travelled further west than Longmile, but I've seen some unsavourary behaviour and characters at St. James and Heuston. From friends and colleagues who use it more often I get the sense that there is a more pervasive low level of anti-social behaviour that never really seems to get tackled and that boils over spectacularly every now and then - both on the trams and in the vicinity of the stops.

The most recent issues (I know they were Green Line) seem to be more related to two specific groups of teenage skangers at 'war', which you would think could be addressed with some targeted policing. Back in the day that might have been an 'invitation' to have a chat in a back room of the garda station with some rubber hosing and a few hefty guards who preferred to let their physical action do the talking.

iarmhiman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:53 pm Statts and Conor would be a great pairing in a pub conversing over pints.

Conor is a Munster fan though so it could end up being endless debate with no winner

Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:02 pm I heard they arrested a very senior retired Garda this morning on suspicion of passing information to a major criminal drugs gang.

CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:11 pm https://www.irishtimes.com/news/educati ... -1.4686967

Becoming more and more obvious that the unions don't really represent the teachers.

CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:11 pm https://www.irishtimes.com/news/educati ... -1.4686967

Becoming more and more obvious that the unions don't really represent the teachers.

iarmhiman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:07 pm

Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:02 pm I heard they arrested a very senior retired Garda this morning on suspicion of passing information to a major criminal drugs gang.

Is he well known publically?

The man arrested on Wednesday is a former senior officer in the force who moved up the ranks very quickly and was well-known and well-liked. He was regarded as a rising star of the Garda and secured repeated promotions.

CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:11 pm https://www.irishtimes.com/news/educati ... -1.4686967

Becoming more and more obvious that the unions don't really represent the teachers.

ticketlessinseattle wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 4:54 pm

CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:11 pm https://www.irishtimes.com/news/educati ... -1.4686967

Becoming more and more obvious that the unions don't really represent the teachers.

ah yes, FG, the party of fiscal responsibility.....gwan Pascal, give bonuses to public servants that dont want it....Bertie would be proud of you

DeDoc wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:57 am

anonymous_joe wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:15 am

Blackrock Bullet wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:18 pm https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0929/12497 ... -hangouts/

This is a good idea but there is no chance I am getting on the Red Line at night as Dublin currently is.

It only really gets rough out of town.

I haven't used it very often, and never at night. I also haven't travelled further west than Longmile, but I've seen some unsavourary behaviour and characters at St. James and Heuston. From friends and colleagues who use it more often I get the sense that there is a more pervasive low level of anti-social behaviour that never really seems to get tackled and that boils over spectacularly every now and then - both on the trams and in the vicinity of the stops.

The most recent issues (I know they were Green Line) seem to be more related to two specific groups of teenage skangers at 'war', which you would think could be addressed with some targeted policing. Back in the day that might have been an 'invitation' to have a chat in a back room of the garda station with some rubber hosing and a few hefty guards who preferred to let their physical action do the talking.

CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:36 pm Is that whole life thing real? Is that a guarantee he'll rot in jail?

I only got the brief synopsis from the wife and it was horrific to hear what he did.

iarmhiman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:40 pm

CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:36 pm Is that whole life thing real? Is that a guarantee he'll rot in jail?

I only got the brief synopsis from the wife and it was horrific to hear what he did.

He has no possibility of parole.

CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:51 pm

iarmhiman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:40 pm

CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:36 pm Is that whole life thing real? Is that a guarantee he'll rot in jail?

I only got the brief synopsis from the wife and it was horrific to hear what he did.

He has no possibility of parole.

It's cases like this that test my resolve about the death penalty.

iarmhiman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:55 pm

CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:51 pm

iarmhiman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:40 pm

CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:36 pm Is that whole life thing real? Is that a guarantee he'll rot in jail?

I only got the brief synopsis from the wife and it was horrific to hear what he did.

He has no possibility of parole.

It's cases like this that test my resolve about the death penalty.

I'm the same as you. I'm against the death penalty


But for him....he needed the death penalty. The sophisticated planning he went to to do that....and she did nothing wrong at all. How could she have avoided that? It's so disgraceful.


Sometimes i feel sorry for those sent down...don't know why but i do.

Not him. Utter disgust for him. Hell would be to kind for him.

camroc1 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:57 pm

iarmhiman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:55 pm

CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:51 pm

iarmhiman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:40 pm

CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:36 pm Is that whole life thing real? Is that a guarantee he'll rot in jail?

I only got the brief synopsis from the wife and it was horrific to hear what he did.

He has no possibility of parole.

It's cases like this that test my resolve about the death penalty.

I'm the same as you. I'm against the death penalty


But for him....he needed the death penalty. The sophisticated planning he went to to do that....and she did nothing wrong at all. How could she have avoided that? It's so disgraceful.


Sometimes i feel sorry for those sent down...don't know why but i do.

Not him. Utter disgust for him. Hell would be to kind for him.

And if it wasn't her, it would have been some other young woman.
Very horrible and very chilling.

iarmhiman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:24 pm Anon Joe. My latest legal question.

Does the Irish judicial sytem impose whole life orders like the UK does?

CM11 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 9:26 am https://www.thejournal.ie/nphet-briefin ... 2-Oct2021/

anonymous_joe wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 6:20 pm
Town ends at Heuston for me btw.

DeDoc wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:06 am

anonymous_joe wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 6:20 pm
Town ends at Heuston for me btw.

Surprised you get that far tbh
I thought it would be a 500m radius circle centred on Grafton street with a narrow path of safe passage to the Four Courts!

Fwiw, in my head I always think of the city centre as roughly defined by Westland row to Christchurch for E-W and parnell street to Stephens green south for the N-S axis. Outside of that is some variety of a 'bit far' and 'thar be dragons'

redderneck wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:14 am

DeDoc wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:06 am

anonymous_joe wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 6:20 pm
Town ends at Heuston for me btw.

Surprised you get that far tbh
I thought it would be a 500m radius circle centred on Grafton street with a narrow path of safe passage to the Four Courts!

Fwiw, in my head I always think of the city centre as roughly defined by Westland row to Christchurch for E-W and parnell street to Stephens green south for the N-S axis. Outside of that is some variety of a 'bit far' and 'thar be dragons'

Reach the Grafton Street/Suffolk Street junction and I'd be checking my Innoculation Records before putting my shiny wristwatch in my front packet and spreading my cash and cards around my person.

CM11 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 9:26 am https://www.thejournal.ie/nphet-briefin ... 2-Oct2021/

DeDoc wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:24 am

redderneck wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:14 am

DeDoc wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:06 am

anonymous_joe wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 6:20 pm
Town ends at Heuston for me btw.

Surprised you get that far tbh
I thought it would be a 500m radius circle centred on Grafton street with a narrow path of safe passage to the Four Courts!

Fwiw, in my head I always think of the city centre as roughly defined by Westland row to Christchurch for E-W and parnell street to Stephens green south for the N-S axis. Outside of that is some variety of a 'bit far' and 'thar be dragons'

Reach the Grafton Street/Suffolk Street junction and I'd be checking my Innoculation Records before putting my shiny wristwatch in my front packet and spreading my cash and cards around my person.

I'm with you there brother. DNS starts for me on Suffolk street moving on to the (north) wall of Trinity!

Posh people’
Roger Madelin, who heads the Canada Water redevelopment project in London for British Land and previously led the regeneration of King’s Cross, said the first homes in the new development should be low-rise apartments for “posh people” and “rich people” rather than “the most needy and dependent” to give people confidence in the scheme before taller blocks are built.

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“Posh people, rich people have to live somewhere and they tend, obviously, to have more choice because they have this wealth,” he said. “Do the first six-storey residential development for people who have got a choice.”

When the less well-off see those with money choosing to live in an area, they are more likely to accept change, he said.

“Don’t force the most needy and dependent residents into stuff they don’t feel comfortable with because it’s different and it’s unusual.” Instead, “create something wonderful so aspiring people who are likely to be high earners do move in first,” he said.

“I’m not saying you don’t do any supported housing but whenever people see people who have got a choice moving to a six-storey development that has great space and great public amenity, and is connected into public transport and cycleways, other people will go from saying ‘You’re not going to force me to live there’ to ‘Oh, that’s quite nice, actually’,” he said.

camroc1 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 11:24 am How they do inner city renewal/redevelopment in London.

Posh people’
Roger Madelin, who heads the Canada Water redevelopment project in London for British Land and previously led the regeneration of King’s Cross, said the first homes in the new development should be low-rise apartments for “posh people” and “rich people” rather than “the most needy and dependent” to give people confidence in the scheme before taller blocks are built.

Learn more


“Posh people, rich people have to live somewhere and they tend, obviously, to have more choice because they have this wealth,” he said. “Do the first six-storey residential development for people who have got a choice.”

When the less well-off see those with money choosing to live in an area, they are more likely to accept change, he said.

“Don’t force the most needy and dependent residents into stuff they don’t feel comfortable with because it’s different and it’s unusual.” Instead, “create something wonderful so aspiring people who are likely to be high earners do move in first,” he said.

“I’m not saying you don’t do any supported housing but whenever people see people who have got a choice moving to a six-storey development that has great space and great public amenity, and is connected into public transport and cycleways, other people will go from saying ‘You’re not going to force me to live there’ to ‘Oh, that’s quite nice, actually’,” he said.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland ... -1.4688133

Imagine if you tried that in Dublin ? The howls of rage would be heard from coast to coast.