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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It’s almost as if the vaccine is rubbish and doesn’t do anything.
Oh they’re definitely doing ‘something‘. Buggered if I can see it’s anything to do with Convid though.
Gibraltar has the highest vaccination rate per capita in the world. It also currently has one of the highest infection rates in the world.
It is most curious that questions are not being asked about this.
Questions are being asked. I asked a question on Facebook about it. 30 day ban was my answer.
And muzzles, and reduced capacity, and distancing, and paw washing.
Ah, but no internal vaxxports.
Only the vaxxports can Save Our Christmas.
We’ll just have to pretend Gibraltar ceased to exist. Much like Sweden and Belarus, which amazingly haven’t yet been wiped off the face of the Earth!
Not almost – it is.
“Forced to take action.”
Hahahahahaha.
It’s punishment, pure and simple.
They had to wait as the virus doesn’t have a watch with daylight saving time.
So, are we only susceptible to the virus after midnight, or does it come out to play as the clock strikes twelve?
Curfews are completely illogical.
The whole lockdown, face cloth, and the rest of the crap is illogical.
Oh, I know.
You must have heard of the Cinderella fairy tale surely?
Ten years from now they will make pantomimes about it.
“Its behind you”
We will laugh!
Bierhalle putzsch.
They are digging the new hole for the goalpost.
I was under the impression that the goalposts are on castors.
So they are reintroducing restrictions on venues the unjabbed can’t get into.
And at the same time blaming the unjabbed for the rise in “cases” aka positive test results.
Words just don’t cut it anymore. The doublethink. The mindless obedience. It’s enough to make you want to wrap your lips around a fucking Glock sometimes.
Just kidding, stay strong and positive!
Yes, but they are not stupid – or at least, whoever gives them their orders isn’t stupid.
In my opinion they are deliberately creating a “50-50” issue, or 40-60, or 60-40. They want to piss a proportion of the population off – and, at the moment, not just the unvaccinated.
This is one way to push an envelope. The exact choice of issue isn’t critical when you control the media.
Extremely nasty developments are in the pipeline.
Extremely nasty developments are in the pipeline.
They most certainly are.
Good, bring them on. Why assume we can’t win?
I’ve almost had to stop reading the news lately as reading the next move of these fucking imbeciles is giving me the rage. They are never – EVER – accountable for their stupid, fuck-witted ideas. There is ZERO science behind this, it is a few pen-pushers who have probably never done a proper job in their whole life making decisions which are ruining peoples’ lives. The Irish should rise up against this tyranny. The gloves need to come off now, this is bullshit, utter and complete bullshit. The Irish, like the Scottish, the Welsh and the rest of us, are being played like absolute fools.
There will be no rising up. The time for that has long since passed.
Yes. The frog has been gradually coming to the boil for about 50 years now and there has been hardly a whimper in all that time.
God what a lot of whingers on this site. How do you know? They said the same in France in 1788, look what happneed.
Since early in 2020 many sceptics have claimed that ‘the people won’t stand for X, Y, Z’ but the past eighteen months plus have clearly demonstrated ‘the people’ will put up with pretty much anything and everything.
This is exactly governments should not be allowed to have too much power
Not only the government. A couple of years ago, nobody had even heard of Whitty, Vallance, Van Tam, Ferguson et al, now the msm and the sheeple hang on their every utterance. They are so drunk on the power they are masturbating themselves senseless out of sight of the cameras.
Summed it up perfectly.
Yeah, because the intelligent virus knows what time it is…of course, I thought only the fully vaccinated were allowed in for Eire?
Esther Rantzen suggests voluntary euthanasia for vaccine resisters aged 65+
Source: Indy100.
This is unlikely to be simply an unpleasant idiot shooting her mouth off. I don’t think she says anything that receives a lot of traction unless she gets paid for it.
She is involved with the charity The Silver Line, which works with Age UK.
Does she by any chance have connections in the care home sector? What kinds of thing does she advertise nowadays?
Answering my own question: yes, Esther Rantzen does seem to be involved in the care home sector. That link is for Radfield Home Care, where she is described as a Patron of Compassion in Dying.
Compassion in Dying’s website is here. Their list of trustees is here. They include Mark Jarman-Howe, who writes in self-description as follows:
Another trustee is Anushka Aubeelack:
In other words, she does PR.
A third trustee is Jo Gibbons, who is connected with Tony Blair:
To more bleating of “We’d better comply, if we want to earn our freedoms back.”
Booster Doses are Extremely Dangerous and They Will Make Everything Worse
Additional vaccinations will drive infections up, not down.
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/booster-doses-are-extremely-dangerous
“The Government has been forced to take action after infection rates soared in recent weeks.”
I love this line which has been trotted out by the MSM since day 1 of this shitshow. Forced to take action? Nobody is forcing them to do anything. It’s a political decision. How the MSM have been allowed to get away with this banality without ever questioning the absurd logic behind some of these restrictions is beyond my comprehension. Curfews…only being allowed to order alcohol with food…table service only…wearing a mask only when standing up or moving around in a pub…I mean, seriously, for the love of f***ing God, can nobody from the BBC, Sky, Channel 4, ITV and all the national newspapers see how utterly bollocking ludicrous this all is? The mind f***ing boggles that everyone just shrugs and accepts it. “Oh well, it is what it is”.
I know.
Every ounce of my logic is troubled by the complete illogical nature of this farce.
I thought it would get better… alas it gets stupider by the day.
There’s just no let up, is there.
Mind controlled
‘The government has been forced to take action’ after reading page 117 of Agenda 30.
‘The government has been forced to take action’ after a Zoom meeting with Billy Goates, HRH, Anal Schwab and Henry K-I-S-S-I-N-G-E-R.
So all the social distancing, mask wearing, working from home, self isolation, staycations, and all the rest of the bullshit has not stopped the virus? So obviously they’re going to do more of the same. Utter idiocy.
When will people realise it’s a virus with an IFR of 0.2%?
Does anyone realise viruses have been around forever yet there are 7 billion of us on the planet?
As a species we are doing ok!
‘They’ don’t want 7 billion on the planet. Hence this whole bollocks
I hope and pray these stupid divisive restrictions completely and utterly fail and countries like Austria Germany Czech Republic and so on face continually high “cases”.
Will the media report on it? Obviously not but I hope it happens.
So covids only allowed out to play after midnight! Reminds me of song.
Absolutely.
Covid, like Dracula, is more deadly after midnight.
Yes, that makes sense: remember convid is a particularly clever virus with great time management skills.
C19 is such a party virus.
Nothing to do with rising cases. Just spite and morons drunk on power. Virus doesn’t come out at midnight. Equally medical apartheid is also spite: we’re gonna punish you because you won’t do as you’re told.
And a midnight curfew will do what, exactly?
Joe Rogan said his doctor, Pierre Kory, is part of a group that has used Ivermectin to quietly treat 200 Members of U.S. Congress for COVID19. Dr Simone Gold, from America’s Frontline Doctors, told that she has prescribed treatments for Congress. She still believes in her oath, but she is vocal saying she has been contacted by many in DC. Can you believe these demons? Healing for them are OK but not for us. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Just like Cinderella when the clock strikes 12 …….. except now instead of losing the posh frock, the virus comes out of hiding and strikes.
It’s so idiotic, it’s almost funny.