Remember when Covid first hit Ireland and your neighbour’s aunt’s dog’s best friends owner’s hairdresser was in the Army and insisting that martial law was about to start? Book is State of Emergency: The Story of Ireland’s Covid Crisis by Richard Chambers
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Yeah. It was last year.
They should have killed us when they had the chance
I can’t imagine reading a book about the covid crisis while in the covid crisis. How much covid crisis do you need?
What’s this from?
Great to have something in print to refer to in this day and age of people like me constantly fecking up saved pages in my browser and worse still somehow wiping and obliterating all of the drive in the home desktop.
Journalists used to be great at writing books of their investigations into worthy stories a few years after their synopsis was published in the newspaper they were employed by.
I remember when we it was about 5 days pre lockdown. I worked in a hotel run by a large hotel group and they issued some advice about Covid.
One thing that stuck is how they said it can be transmitted via your ears, the hysteria around it was so bad back then. Not much better now.
How long before your finished it? Just another two weeks…
The Defence Forces are on the point of collapse. They cannot retain service personnel. The funding needed to have a credible assertion of our neutrality has been diverted for decades to bullshit vanity projects of politicians. If you read comments online by army officers etc you will see that we are close to having to close down the services altogether.
I remember people were sending these to my mothers college group chat for students
My sister, her boyfriend’s brother works for the Dept Defence and one of the things that they’re doing to prepare… … is building a massive lasagne. At the moment, as we speak, they’re building the massive lasagne sheets