From Friday, restaurants, nightclubs, and pubs will have to shut their doors at midnight due to a state-enforced curfew intended to curb a rise in Covid cases. Other restrictions will also come into effect by the end of week, such as vaccine passport measures for cinemas and theatres. Sky News has the story.
So-called Covid passes (proof of vaccination), which are already required for indoor hospitality, will now also be needed to go to a cinema or theatre. Gyms and hair salons will continue to be exempt from this requirement.
The public will also be urged to work from home again unless it is absolutely necessary for them to go to the office or workplace.
The midnight curfew is being seen as a major blow to the hospitality sector in the run-up to the Christmas party season.
The industry had only just returned to some semblance of normality, with a previous curfew of 11.30pm removed at the end of October.
Reacting to the move, the Vintners’ Federation of Ireland, which represents around 4,000 Irish publicans, said: “the news that restricted trading hours are set to be reintroduced is a hugely disappointing development for the many late-night pubs and night clubs many of whom will now be forced to shut just three weeks after reopening.”
The body’s Chief Executive, Padraig Cribben, said: “the decision to introduce a new closing time of midnight will effectively close many late-night pubs and nightclubs.
“It will also seriously restrict other outlets at the most critical time of the year.”
Publicans are now calling for discontinued state financial supports for affected businesses to be reintroduced.
The Government has been forced to take action after infection rates soared in recent weeks.
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Good thought provoking article and it made a lot of sense, where, if only zero & one matter then that is the sum of modern western life where, one (I/ me) only count and all the rest is less than and relative to me.
Is it not closely related to the policy of language manipulation, i.e. changing the meaning of one thing or another, so as to promote it as if it was something else. Perhaps someone will create a new Zero Intelligence Party (ZIP)!
ZIP. awesome.
e^(i pi) + 1 = 0
I think ‘zero’ has its uses when it comes to the C1984 and ‘health savings measures’ as in ‘I am not interested so button it.’
Zero alcohol drinks – that’s almost oxymoronic.
The song “Saved By Zero” by The Fixx comes to mind.
Forget about Net Zero, we need Real Zero.
Considering that our very bodies generate energy with the help of exothermic reactions creating carbon dioxide as waste product, the Gretna is either unusually thick or she must be calling for the extermination of all breathing animals on this planet.
Its the first of your suggestions. She’s obviously missed a lot of school and hasn’t handed any biology homework in, that’s plain to see. I think she is also keen of seeing at least a partial extermination of the human race. Not people like her, you understand. People like us…
ZERO in respect of NET ZERO meant ZERO discussion. —- ZERO questions were ever asked by any MP of any major party as to the cost /benefit. It was simply waved through. ————–When you ask ZERO questions you get ZERO answers. So, for the estimated one and a half trillion quid that this ZERO is costing, what we get in return is the biggest fattest ZERO ever. An astronomical sum of money for ZERO in return. ZERO Benefit to anyone or to the climate. Infact in might even be close to Absolute ZERO
Damn good points.
Great thought provoking piece James. in Scotland our shite recycling QANGO is called Zero Waste Scotland. The idea of zero waste when Sturgeon has just panicked the flock into wearing more masks to “protect the NHS is lunacy on a cosmic level. Maybe to protect it from patients. Zero tolerance is another pile of mince which is used by every shite organisation from councils to car showrooms. It’s about alleged “violence” but thus is usually only violence in the woke/Sussex sense. it’s designed to shut down criticism or complaint and when people get really frustrated they tend to use sweary words or raise their voice. And can be barred/cancelled. Generally the people complaining have zero concern for their customer and zero intention of doing their job. This is often masked by bogus reference to “mental health”, presaging a nice week off for said zero waster.