Coronavirus - Remain Calm. Do Not Panic

sid waddell wrote: The Kildare testing centre is closed Kildare people are being told to travel to Lansdowne Road if they want to get tested Cian O'Neill will be on tomorrow's Six-One with a defiant declaration that it's #newbridgeornowhere

was in Donegal for a week and the only tourists we met were from this Island. Live in County Galway and have yet to meet the droves of foreign tourists that certain posters seem to think are overrunning the country.

Work at the tunnel as some of you know. We have detailed figures of our hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly etc etc traffic volumes that takes into account ferry arrival/departure times, types of ferries (passenger/freight, RO-RO, LO-LO). When what I’m reading (shift reports/traffic volume reports), seeing personally (with my own eyes) and hearing from colleagues who work in the toll booths (when I’m on shift of course) is a huge increase in both British and NI reg vehicles, including cars with families and a lot of campervans all coming from the Port, then its safe to say there is a big increase in such tourists. A simple comparison to a few weeks ago speaks volumes. In fact one of the biggest increases we have seen in the last while is British registered campervans smacking into height restrictor barriers in toll lanes.   

Edited by Sham157 - 08 Aug 2020 at 2:36pm

Drove around Salthill this afternoon

The summer it has passed

NewtNewbie wrote: A load ill-informed, xenophobic garbage, as per usual.

Where? I'm not asking this in a smartarse way. I just don't see it. There's certainly a fair bit of commentary that amounts to, "I travelled for 2 miles in a place and there were loads of Americans and English so we're f**ked" vs " I travelled for 2 miles in a place and there were no Americans and English so we're grand". The only person that's commented on this that appears to work in an industry that might actually have something approaching proper knowledge, is Sham, but you don't comment on that at all. Anyway, the comments made generally appear to be anecdotal in nature and should be treated as such. I don't see the xenophobia angle at all.

NewtNewbie wrote: A load ill-informed, xenophobic garbage, as per usual.

What comments are xenophobic, the irritation is that we are dealing with a pandemic by locking down 3 counties and at the same time we are allowing large numbers of potential external carriers, from other countries applying different rules to our own, roam without restriction.

Now role over your word of the day calendar and see what tomorrow brings

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/coronavirus-new-zealand-marks-100-days-without-domestic-case/ar-BB17Kz94?li=BBr5KbJ