Ireland lockdown news: Pub optimism given, the May restrictions easing and Taoiseach s promise
Irish Mirror 1 hour ago Paul Moore
Ireland can look forward to May with much better times ahead, the Taoiseach said on Thursday night.
Case numbers are going down, lockdown measures started to be eased, the online registration portal for the vaccine has now opened and Pfizer s decision to supply Ireland with more than 500,000 doses in Q2 was extremely welcome.
However, there have also been major issues with the AstraZeneca and Janssen vaccines.
While Thursday saw various leading members of the government provide various updates as they reiterated that Ireland s vaccine programme is on track, it s also hard not to be envious of the UK with thousands of people now able to return to some degree of normality.
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Northern Ireland s pubs and restaurants are set to be allowed to return from April 30
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Irish pubs and restaurants should reopen in six weeks for outdoor dining, the Licensed Vintners Association has claimed.
Ireland pubs: The four things that need to happen for bars and restaurants to reopen
Irish Mirror 2 hrs ago David Kent
Ireland s pubs have seen their doors shut for the majority of the last 12 months as coronavirus raged throughout the country.
But with the vaccination programme going to plan and a steady decrease in the number of daily cases and hospitalisations, we are seeing the country slowly returning to normality.
Normality for a lot of people this summer would see them heading to the pub with friends, something which has been rare over the last year.
But how close are we to that glorious point?
Industry and Employment Correspondent
From the United States to Israel, from Australia to Ireland - most agree that a rapid rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination is the key to reopening the economy.
But already, employers, unions and lawyers are grappling with thorny issues around vaccination - including what happens when an employee does not want to get vaccinated.
Publican Noel Anderson, who chairs the Licensed Vintners Association, is desperate to reopen his two bars: Lemon and Duke in Dublin city centre, and the Bridge in Ballsbridge. Our industry is decimated, he says. I have colleagues who have been closed for nearly 13 months. We ourselves have been closed three times and I ve had to lay off 70 staff three times. There is nothing more difficult.
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