Do you miss the pub?

You are not obliged to get pissed in a pub. It is more than possible to go to a pub, have a few and keep a reasonable distance. I would feel much safer in a pub, certainly ones that I know are well run,  than most other businesses, especially a bookies at home. My experience of them, especially from the few months I worked in one, was personal space was not something you were allowed as some fella tried to read a newspaper tacked to the wall.

The laws over here are so contradictory and confusing that many people are getting frustrated. A lot of pubs aren't reopening as they are forced to be restaurants in tier 2. I know one that spent ten grand on opening last time, only to be closed again. It feels like these well run places are being punished unfairly, especially as I can go and get a hair cut or join the fun at Primark and, most bizarre of all, you can go to a gym and swap every fluid imaginable with a stranger. 

When you can do the above, I don't see why I can't sit at the opposite side of a table from someone and have a pint with him.

Either have a lockdown, or don't. Trying to keep everyone happy, with stupid rules for Christmas and the like, is just stupidity.

Don’t think anyone has who is not a lobbyist said it’s perfectly safe to re open the places you mention above. 

The safest thing from a covid point of view is to lockdown completely.  Whether that’s the best thing to do from an economic and health (in its totality) perspective is a slightly different thing.  

It’s about balance I suppose and Ireland isn’t doing as bad as many people on both side of

The argument would suggest via social media whether they are the zero covid island group or

The let’s open the whole place up group.  

 

Ah Andy come on, very naïve to be looking for something last minute after a 6 week drought. Will your local not look after regulars? 

11 30 closing i 5think