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The Irish Passport

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4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode made specially to thank our Patreon supporters, we take a look at some of the good news coming out in the times of Coronavirus. We’ll be talking about drive-through testing centres in Dublin, mass volunteering efforts to help neighbours and the health service, EU officials embracing poetry, and some very promising statistics and real concrete help coming out of China. You can sign up to join the Irish health service the HSE: hse.ie/oncall If you need help or can offer help, like delivering groceries or subscriptions to your neighbours, the website to sign up is: https://localsupport.ie/ . Anyone who isn’t online can ask for help by text on 087 365 8233. We make Halfpint episodes especially to thank our Patreon supporters. If you want to access our full archive of Halfpint episodes, you can become a Patron today at www.patreon.com/theirishpassport. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook: @PassportIrish.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.5	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay. Hi everybody.
0:21.6	Hello and welcome back to the Irish passport half pints. The bonus content that we make especially to thank our Patreon supporters. As we record, much of Europe and indeed the world is in a state of self-isolation to protect against the spread of the coronavirus. Including ourselves. Isn't that right, Tim?
0:58.9	Yes, indeed, including ourselves. Where I live in Paris has been put into a total state of lockdown for a few days now. So we're not supposed to leave the house without a permit, which we print out
1:05.1	ourselves from home. And we're only allowed to go out to do some shopping or a little bit of exercise.
1:10.1	And that is going to be going on for the next two weeks minimum.
1:13.7	And everyone is saying that it will probably go on for about a month.
1:17.5	So it has been difficult, but things are chugging along okay, you know, considering the extreme circumstances.
1:24.7	Something really good that has been done is supermarket visits have been staggered,
1:29.3	so only a few people are allowed in at a time. So that's really curbed panic buying, and the shelves
1:34.5	are all full, even toilet paper. The one thing that's still missing is onions, which was a weird,
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