The Irish economy

RE Geographical spread, I think so. We are seeing plenty of evidence of it here. People coming from Dublin, Galway, Sligo etc to work from home. Both renting and buying. Could be great for smaller towns and villages around the country. 

I’d imagine crèches and infants will be the last to return as they can’t social distance....collages and secondary schools will go back early enough if they want the leaving cert etc done in July ...I’m guessing they’ll go back mid June.

Not so sure Daithi. Seeing pubs operating delivery services for food nearby - now not ‘local’ pubs but publicans will do anything to reopen and can see this as only potential solution in short term.

One problem with reopening is that half the country will want to pile into the pubs. Need to ban bandwagon jumpers 

I’d say the government are sh*tting themselves over this...the ramp back up to normality will be very very slow because as you say half the country will pile into pubs,airports to get away etc.its gonna be extremely hard to do it anyway,I can’t see them allowing 50 people in,what will happen if others want to get in....wait till people inside come out???i also see that there’s a covid 19 induction going around for construction workers.the induction is sent to your phone and you complete it,it then gives you a barcode on your phone when you complete it allowing access to site.going by that...I’d imagine that they’ll get the construction sector back asap.