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14 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Amazon's Twitter customer service causing extreme hilarity on Irish Twitter by declaring a united Ireland
Worth checking out the whole thread 👌 good work Saturday night twitter
'Come out ye package fans' was special
Some of them seem like auto responses but this one looks like someone having a laugh

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8 Oct
Irish news:
- 'on foot of'
- traffic at the Red Cow roundabout
- 12 jobs announced for Longford
- controversy over the handling of health/justice/Tusla scandal
- car accident, reported on the national hourly news bulletin
- 'senior hurling'
- Liveline drama fuels resignation
Italian news
- Pope Francis appeals for compassion for refugees
- Berlusconi scende in campo
- unions protest layoff terms in struggling industry
- right-wing positions to be powerbroker after next election
- Alitalia needs bailout
- Berlusconi scende in campo
Irish news (Northern edition):
- deadlock in Stormont
- talented local celebrated
- controversy over the behaviour of students in the Holylands
- minor matter becomes proxy sectarian row on call-in radio show
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7 Oct
A few @PassportIrish episodes from the past year that seem especially relevant:
Rise of the right: expert on the far right @CasMudde explains the potential for such movements in Ireland and what we can learn from the experience of other countries (February)patreon.com/posts/33599639
Journalist @samirashackle discusses her reporting digging into the collapse of attempts to investigate alleged war crimes in Iraq and the movement in favour of British military impunity patreon.com/posts/29677129
(We also touched on this in our discussion of the backlash against truth and justice efforts and the re-politicisation of Northern Ireland in right-wing British politics during the Brexit process in our episode on Collusion) theirishpassport.com/podcast/s3-epi…
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5 Oct
Ireland's Covid-19 approach has attracted international praise just as it comes under criticism at home: featured approvingly on the Dutch equivalent of SNL and @berlingske reporting it "transparent, predictable and an obvious inspiration for Denmark" irishtimes.com/news/health/ir…
You can behold the odd sight of a Merrion Street PDF broadcast to Dutch television viewers at 11:00 here as comedian presenter @arjenlubach criticises PM Mark Rutte and explains the Irish 5-phase system. "How nice would it be to make a super clear plan.."
Lubach perceptively hit the nail on the head by pointing out that the weakness in the system is that someone will still have to announce to the nation "we are going to stage X", and politicians won't want to. He suggested an automatic trigger if cases rise above set levels.
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4 Oct
Ireland typically runs a hospital bed occupancy level of 95%, and over 100% in the winter, with people lying in corridors. Our health system would be the quickest to be overrun in the EU, according to ECDC. That's relavant to policy decisions now.
The fact that Ireland lacks healthcare capacity is a policy and political choice about allocation of resources and taxation.
For context the average hospital bed occupancy rate in the OECD (fellow rich countries like Ireland) is 75% oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/0d67e02a….
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30 Sep
This is going to be like turning around an oil tanker. It follows six months of dissing of face masks by public figures apparently impervious to evidence that contradicted their prior convictions, from the head of the public health agency down.
Until August 17, the public health agency's advice to elderly care homes was that masks were unnecessary for staff in brief contact with patients, such as for short conversations. This advice was quietly changed in August without informing care providers nos.nl/nieuwsuur/arti…
The worried partner of a nurse wrote to me to point out RIVM advice that masks make people careless was superseded by their own research suggesting that they actually make people more careful, but that the guidelines weren't updated rivm.nl/documenten/cov… nos.nl/artikel/234172…
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25 Sep
Extensive contact tracing helped countries like Japan and South Korea avoid lockdowns and keep deaths from Covid-19 to a tiny fraction of those seen in the West.
How does Europe compare? My piece on how the continent has taken a different approach irishtimes.com/news/health/co…
This week we had a rare press briefing from @ECDC_EU and I managed to cram in three questions into the one chance I got. They were:
- given increased evidence of role of shared air in spreading virus, why isn't ventilation added to standard advice on distancing, handwashing etc?
- given the evidence of sustained neurological damage and damage to lungs and organs of younger Covid survivors, what picture is emerging of the longer term impact on population health?
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