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Replying To AfricanGael: "North West actually." What is the most northerly part of Ireland and what county is it in? Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 2739 - 06/05/2021 11:38:24 2340230 Link
Replying To AfricanGael: "North West actually." Not all of Donegal is north west baby. it is a big county so read up on Geography sunshine before you make silly statements like that. It is embarrassing. parts of Donegal lie north of Derry so obviously some of it is north. the creeler (Cavan) - Posts: 512 - 06/05/2021 11:48:54 2340234 Link
Replying To wishfulthinkin: "Instead of unifying ireland...can we join Donegal up with the north?" Tá sin seafóideach ar fad.. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9116 - 06/05/2021 11:56:47 2340235 Link
There's a killer virus lurking and some poster(s) are splitting hairs on geographic location and if a town is a big college town or not, with the poster who's actually from the area. Still plenty of sound posters but the troll here have ruined what used to be a great forum. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7337 - 06/05/2021 11:59:13 2340236 Link
Replying To Tirchonaill1: " Replying To AfricanGael: "North West actually." What is the most northerly part of Ireland and what county is it in?" He wouldn't know - he is in Africa the creeler (Cavan) - Posts: 512 - 06/05/2021 12:11:04 2340238 Link
Replying To GreenandRed: "There's a killer virus lurking and some poster(s) are splitting hairs on geographic location and if a town is a big college town or not, with the poster who's actually from the area. Still plenty of sound posters but the troll here have ruined what used to be a great forum." You're spot on, I'm worse for bothering to respond to them, football is back soon thank God and hopefully this vaccine gets rolled out fast and we can get back to going to games. 7 weeks this Saturday until our Ulster Championship game with Down in Newry, hopefully by then the country will be in a much better state. Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 2739 - 06/05/2021 12:18:35 2340240 Link
Replying To tonguey: " Replying To Tirchonaill1: "[quote=AfricanGael: "North West actually." What is the most northerly part of Ireland and what county is it in?" He wouldn't know - he is in Africa"]Didn't take you long to show your small mindedness and try and drag Africa into in did it ? Ah no lads, Donegal is in the North West, even everyone in Africa knows that. Every county has a North , South, East and West unless Cavan is just one piece of something ? North Kildare isn't in the North lads, or South Dublin isn't in the South. Another free lesson from AG. Visit North West Ireland Tourism while you're online and have a great day. AfricanGael (UK) - Posts: 1947 - 06/05/2021 13:00:20 2340245 Link
Replying To AfricanGael: " Replying To tonguey: "[quote=Tirchonaill1: "[quote=AfricanGael: "North West actually." What is the most northerly part of Ireland and what county is it in?" He wouldn't know - he is in Africa"]Didn't take you long to show your small mindedness and try and drag Africa into in did it ? Ah no lads, Donegal is in the North West, even everyone in Africa knows that. Every county has a North , South, East and West unless Cavan is just one piece of something ? North Kildare isn't in the North lads, or South Dublin isn't in the South. Another free lesson from AG. Visit North West Ireland Tourism while you're online and have a great day. "]Well you are the one with the African name not me baby. Every country has a north south east and west too and if you manage to look at a map you will see that Donegal is part of the northern section of Ireland. Why are you mentioning North Kildare????? What has that got to do with where Donegal is situated?? Parts of Donegal are in the northern section of Ireland- if you don't believe us look at a map!!!!I know it may be confusing for you but AG needs to sharpen up big time here. Completely at sea. the creeler (Cavan) - Posts: 512 - 06/05/2021 13:10:00 2340246 Link
Replying To Tirchonaill1: "You're spot on, I'm worse for bothering to respond to them, football is back soon thank God and hopefully this vaccine gets rolled out fast and we can get back to going to games. 7 weeks this Saturday until our Ulster Championship game with Down in Newry, hopefully by then the country will be in a much better state." Exactly. Admittedly there are SOME people here in Donegal who need to show a lot more cop on, but those in ivory towers down in Dublin are hardly blameless either. One walk-in testing center for the whole county (up until yesterday), the vaccine roll out has been very slow up until now as well. The evidence from the data in other countries is conclusive. Vaccinate the population quickly and efficiently and the less we'll be dealing with blame games and whataboutery. Donnelly and co would be far better off putting their energies into that than spoofing away day in day out on national TV and radio. (Interesting to note that noone from NPHET or the government responded to local media requests for an interview). Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9116 - 06/05/2021 13:34:54 2340251 Link
Replying To GreenandRed: "There's a killer virus lurking and some poster(s) are splitting hairs on geographic location and if a town is a big college town or not, with the poster who's actually from the area. Still plenty of sound posters but the troll here have ruined what used to be a great forum." I agree, but maybe name the two Cavan posters who are trolling instead of tarring everyone. I have no issue with my post saying Donegal is in the North West because it's a fact, the same as Wexford is in the South East, fact. AfricanGael (UK) - Posts: 1947 - 06/05/2021 14:05:15 2340257 Link
Replying To Lockjaw: "Exactly. Admittedly there are SOME people here in Donegal who need to show a lot more cop on, but those in ivory towers down in Dublin are hardly blameless either. One walk-in testing center for the whole county (up until yesterday), the vaccine roll out has been very slow up until now as well. The evidence from the data in other countries is conclusive. Vaccinate the population quickly and efficiently and the less we'll be dealing with blame games and whataboutery. Donnelly and co would be far better off putting their energies into that than spoofing away day in day out on national TV and radio. (Interesting to note that noone from NPHET or the government responded to local media requests for an interview)." They don't take any interviews except soft soap ones from rte where they'll be asked about everything apart from their own performance through all of this, the modelling they use for statistics etc etc. Very easy to go on to the late late show where they'll be plamased for 20 mins about how great they are. They wouldn't like getting grilled by a Donegal journalist from the local radio or newspapers about what is happening. the_creeler (Leitrim) - Posts: 119 - 06/05/2021 14:08:12 2340258 Link
Replying To the_creeler: "They don't take any interviews except soft soap ones from rte where they'll be asked about everything apart from their own performance through all of this, the modelling they use for statistics etc etc. Very easy to go on to the late late show where they'll be plamased for 20 mins about how great they are. They wouldn't like getting grilled by a Donegal journalist from the local radio or newspapers about what is happening." Tá sin cinnte, Greg Hughes on Highland Radio made some great points the other morning, He said that he wasn't for one minute disputing NPHET recommendations and advice as he isn't a medical doctor or health professional. But he just had some very pertinent questions which RTE seem incapable or unwilling to ask. If we, as a county, are to be targeted as a special case for further lockdown, does that not mean we should also be a special case for vaccination? Access to testing and vaccination facilities are not easy here, so a targeted approach was needed. We got nothing until things got really bad in Letterkenny & Milford - and now according to NPHET, it's all our fault. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9116 - 06/05/2021 14:50:35 2340268 Link
Replying To Lockjaw: "Tá sin cinnte, Greg Hughes on Highland Radio made some great points the other morning, He said that he wasn't for one minute disputing NPHET recommendations and advice as he isn't a medical doctor or health professional. But he just had some very pertinent questions which RTE seem incapable or unwilling to ask. If we, as a county, are to be targeted as a special case for further lockdown, does that not mean we should also be a special case for vaccination? Access to testing and vaccination facilities are not easy here, so a targeted approach was needed. We got nothing until things got really bad in Letterkenny & Milford - and now according to NPHET, it's all our fault." Why should you be rewarded for misbehaving? Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2447 - 06/05/2021 14:56:47 2340274 Link
Replying To AfricanGael: "I agree, but maybe name the two Cavan posters who are trolling instead of tarring everyone. I have no issue with my post saying Donegal is in the North West because it's a fact, the same as Wexford is in the South East, fact. " Do not be so childish- just because you were called out on your lack of basic knowledge on Irish geography you calls us trolls. Yes Wexford is in the south east- but parts of Donegal are in the North- FACT. Now please grow up and be mature like 99% of people here are. You are being very silly and think you know more than others when obviously you do not as has been proven. the creeler (Cavan) - Posts: 512 - 06/05/2021 15:04:34 2340275 Link
Replying To Cockney_Cat: "Why should you be rewarded for misbehaving?" Ah they aren't children, talking about misbehaving. You're watching too many nphet conferences and rte too with that kind of language. People have been at this carry on for a year and a quarter, time to get a bit of space to be normal again the_creeler (Leitrim) - Posts: 119 - 06/05/2021 15:28:54 2340279 Link
Replying To Cockney_Cat: "Why should you be rewarded for misbehaving?" It isn't a case of being rewarded. Donegal has a more unique set of circumstances than most counties in the country. It's a large county for a start and straddles a long border with another jurisdiction where is there is freedom of movement both ways. The government weren't as quick with solutions when we had loads of cases imported from the North n the first lockdown. I reiterate my earlier point. I know that vaccine supply was an issue, and that there were temporary stoppages due to the clotting investigations. But, the facts are that our vaccine rollout are nowhere near as efficient as they could be, My wife is a pharmacist and undertook additional training and a virtual examination to ensure that she was ready to begin vaccinating people. That was about 3 months ago and she hasn't hard a peep since. It's just one example of how things could have been done better. People could get appointments in their local pharmacy and be done with it. Instead, confusion reigns. My parents were both told by their local GP that they'd be better waiting to get a call from him, than registering for the jab. Two days later it was the opposite. Then both my parents did register and thankfully were called to go to Letterkenny which is an hour and a bit drive away for them. They were happy do to that anyway of course, as was I. The point is that the HSE is such a badly organised, dysfunctional mess that this Covid crisis has really shown them all up really. I think everyone is undoubtedly head-fried by this stage with it all. So again I would say to government - put jabs in arms and less of the finger pointing and scapegoating. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9116 - 06/05/2021 15:32:27 2340280 Link
Lockjaw,I'm in agreement..time to stop all the blaming..I couldn't believe when I heard they wanted people to ring a number and report their neighbors..how many would do that?get vaccines into people and let life and games get back to some sort of normal please.. CTGAA10 (Limerick) - Posts: 2208 - 06/05/2021 16:36:20 2340292 Link
Replying To Lockjaw: "It isn't a case of being rewarded. Donegal has a more unique set of circumstances than most counties in the country. It's a large county for a start and straddles a long border with another jurisdiction where is there is freedom of movement both ways. The government weren't as quick with solutions when we had loads of cases imported from the North n the first lockdown. I reiterate my earlier point. I know that vaccine supply was an issue, and that there were temporary stoppages due to the clotting investigations. But, the facts are that our vaccine rollout are nowhere near as efficient as they could be, My wife is a pharmacist and undertook additional training and a virtual examination to ensure that she was ready to begin vaccinating people. That was about 3 months ago and she hasn't hard a peep since. It's just one example of how things could have been done better. People could get appointments in their local pharmacy and be done with it. Instead, confusion reigns. My parents were both told by their local GP that they'd be better waiting to get a call from him, than registering for the jab. Two days later it was the opposite. Then both my parents did register and thankfully were called to go to Letterkenny which is an hour and a bit drive away for them. They were happy do to that anyway of course, as was I. The point is that the HSE is such a badly organised, dysfunctional mess that this Covid crisis has really shown them all up really. I think everyone is undoubtedly head-fried by this stage with it all. So again I would say to government - put jabs in arms and less of the finger pointing and scapegoating." That was rather curious advice the GP gave your parents. I'm not here to defend the HSE but the lack of a national database is the major problem as its absence has made a uniform coordinated approach so much more difficult. It has led to gp's working off one list and the central online system off another with a further complication added by GDPR. PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1902 - 06/05/2021 17:30:19 2340305 Link
You're telling a Donegal person that they are incorrect about their own area lol! Have you been to Letterkenny at all? Then you might see it is in fact a big college town. the_creeler (Leitrim) - Posts: 21 - 06/05/2021 11:05:55 20000 people max in letterkenny and 3000 or 4000 students maybe if even that. no its not a big college town Well it's the biggest college town in Donegal anyway, I didn't say anything about splitting the county for restrictions, what I meant was peoples behaviour in those areas isn't fair on the rest of the county or the majority of people in the Letterkenny and Milford areas that have done their best all along I'm sure, only to be let down by a section of the community who don't seem to give a damn. The pubs and shops will be open soon in Derry and Strabane and that's going to make things worse. The sooner we get the majority vaccinated the better. Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 1246 - 06/05/2021 11:06:09 only college town in donegal... it mightnt be fair if its primarily people from a certain area of a county but it realistically is the only way to restrict people like in tipp if big outbreak in nenagh and there is restrictions on clonmel/carrick on suir or down around ballyporeen etc but you have to use an area people will know etc. vaccinations will take some time. hard to know when most younger people will get vacced I disagree. If you're living in Glencolmcille and sticking by the rules but someone in Carndonagh isn't, then that absolutely isn't fair that the whole county gets penalised. They are about 150km apart. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 7229 - 06/05/2021 11:06:53how do you put in restrictions then? Its clear and obvious if you use clear vorders such as county lines while may be tough but its fair KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3499 - 06/05/2021 17:57:07 2340309 Link
Replying To CTGAA10: "Lockjaw,I'm in agreement..time to stop all the blaming..I couldn't believe when I heard they wanted people to ring a number and report their neighbors..how many would do that?get vaccines into people and let life and games get back to some sort of normal please.." How many would do that? You'd be unpleasantly surprised. They're queuing up to rat each other out from what I hear. Ann Frank syndrome is in overdrive. realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8586 - 06/05/2021 18:32:23 2340316 Link