Republic of Ireland Set to Impose an 8pm Curfew on Hospitality Venues
From Monday, all hospitality venues, theatres, and cinemas will have to abide by an 8pm curfew brought in by the Irish Government. The Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, has said that the curfew is needed to halt the spread of the Omicron variant, with the Licensed Vinters Association labelling the incoming mandate as “closure in camouflage”. MailOnline has more.
Padraig Cribben, Chief Executive of the Vintners’ Federation of Ireland (VFI) said pubs would be forced to close their doors for the duration of the restrictions.
He added: “I guess the Government thinks we should feel grateful for the 8pm closing given Nphet’s demand for a 5pm curfew.
“The reality is this decision will decimate the trade that was already on its knees.
“Christmas was the one chance we had to recoup some of the losses amassed earlier in the year but we’re now in a situation where staff will lose their jobs and pubs will shut one week before Christmas as they see little point in opening under these conditions.
“While Government may see 8pm as a compromise the reality is that many pubs don’t open until 5pm so three hours trading is unworkable for them.
“Even for pubs that open earlier the majority of their trade takes place at night time.”
He added: “Given the relentless public health message over the past number of weeks to avoid socialising the public had already cancelled bookings in record numbers.
“There was no need to further restrict trading hours as our customers are safer in regulated pubs that adhere to guidelines instead of house parties and shebeens.
“Our members are left wondering what the plan is for hospitality.
“These restrictions are meant to be lifted at the end of January but there is literally no guarantee this will happen.”
Chief Executive of the Restaurants Association of Ireland, Adrian Cummins said it was a “devastating blow” to the hospitality industry.
He added: “The majority of hospitality businesses rely on income from the Christmas period to see them through the quieter first two months of the year.
“The loss of income over Christmas is about more than just the festive season, it is about surviving the winter months.
“It is imperative that financial supports are put in place immediately to offset the impact this will have for businesses and their employees and enable them to survive.
“As a sector and as a country we need better engagement on what the plan for living with this disease will be going forward.
“The current last minute reactionary approach is not working, we stand as always, ready able and willing to engage with Government on a plan for the survival and reopening of hospitality.”
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Party outside on the streets then.
Try it it’s great fun and it drives the Police apoplectic
Yet again the response is to suppress the social activities of the young, who don’t get ill with covid, yet allow the social activities of the old, who do.
This approach seems to be about making sure that everyone suffers, not intelligent disease control.
This is also about destroying the hospitality sector. We cannot be having “conspiracy” theories and the means to disrupt them discussed via tongues loosened with alcohol.
The responses from governments appear to have all been to prevent the population from talking together about anything. People have historically got together and discussed insurrection, politics etc. in churches and public houses. The clampdown on hospitality and church attendance, actively encouraged by the CofE in the latter case, would appear to have been to prevent such free conversation taking place. Tyrannical would be an understatement.
They can’t even follow their own regulations. Why do you imagine that their motives for this patently useless micro-management are to suppress dialogue in social spaces.
Pubs and churches are places where people come together and socialise, this strengthens social bonds. If the options to congregate are restricted there are less opportunities for planning a Guy Fawkes type event. For those so minded. 😀
It doesn’t seem like a very intelligent disease at all, it can’t even tell the time.
Yes, it is about ensuring everyone suffers, it’s the morality of altruism at work.
The virus is obviously a student, it doesn’t get out of bed before 8
I had to drop my sister off at Dublin International airport last year, in the early hours of the morning (because the buses weren’t running, because covid) The journey took us from Northern Ireland across the border to the south of Ireland. We were diverted off the motorway for a covid checkpoint on the north-south journey, but the covid checkpoint was not manned. On the south-north return journey there was no diversion. From which I learned that Covid keeps office hours, and it understands direction of travel.
And border crossings.
Utterly ridiculous. If they think it’s that dangerous, have the courage of their convictions and close everything up totally, or don’t bother. Is the virus only out and about after 8pm? This has nothing to do with keeping people safe and everything to do with continued control and demoralisation. I hope people give it the two fingers it deserves and have massive piss ups with their friends in private premises.
You must know by now that the virus not only comes out after 8pm in Eire, but it also floats around in the atmosphere, never going below 4ft so that you can eat you food, but if you dare to stand up you will be viscously attacked by it.
“Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson said London has seen a surge in admissions.”
he’s lying
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?areaType=nhsRegion&areaName=London
Of course he is, and always has done. I can’t work out in which direction the Lying Infection has moved betwixt Ferguson and Johnson, but it’s certainly a powerful and notifiable malady.
It was a tsunami last week, just a surge this week. Isn’t that better..?
They plan for a pyroclastic flow next week
Don’t forget ‘a tidal wave’.. ‘Dark clouds gathering on the horizon’.. etc etc
Ferguson lying? Never… 😉
Awful, I’m planning on being cheek to jowl with as many drunk nutters as possible tonight, perfect cure for a mild headache!
From the 27th people attending upon pubs in Wales will be required to all walk in an anti clockwise direction. A person who walks in a clockwise direction will face instant death
Over the border in England people in pubs will be allowed to walk in any direction they wish
Bloody murder I say
(Proof if any were needed that is the biggest fraud since the South Sea Bubble)
I doubt the intents are as evil as have been made out, but even well-meaning stupid people can cause mayhem if you give them an opportunity.
You sound fun.
But but vaccine passports work….
The government realised a while ago that someone had taken their eye off the ball and fallen short in their usual decennial major cockup and punishment of the people program. Think of this more as a catch-up plan which turned out better than expected.
It will be over soon and the sun will once again shine for another 10 years.
Extremely high vaccination rate and the Irish need curfew!? So the vaccine failed?
Maybe they’re trying to make life in Wales /Scotland /NI /the countryside /the coast so utterly unpleasant that people decide to move to urban areas In England where they can be herded more easily into the new eco ‘population centres’…
That clever virus – it can tell the time! And have you seen the propaganda advert that shows the virus as big, black particulates in the air? As soon as a window is opened, the virus magically flies through it!
How stupid does anyone have to be to be taken in by all this? Do the jabs lower IQ?
Yes! From stupid to stupiderer
I saw that. I am waiting for that group B.L.M. to object to the use of the coloured particles.
Btw irrelevant comment perhaps. Doing a bit of shopping in Cambridge. 50% mask wearing OUTSIDE 😑
I wonder how many are academics?
Following “the science”?!
Oh and a queue of people all getting testing kits. The mind boggles.
This will be coming to a place near you very soon. The Globalists are intent on closing all High Street purveyors and family owned businesses. By doing this they are getting two birds with the one stone: a percentage of the middle class will be driven into poverty, and people’s shopping will be forced online where Globalists like Amazon have total dominance. Last year’s multiscale rioting across the United States provided the Globalists with a number of advantages, one of which was their attainment of cheap commercial development land. First there were lockdowns early in 2020, which closed down and drove into bankruptcy many family-owned main-street purveyors of goods and services. This was not enough, though, because when the business owners reopened they had reasonable legal grounds to request the government to intervene with the banks to get all their loans restructured – it was, after all, government dictate which shut them down in the first place. Thus, the main-street businesses had to be completely destroyed. This was achieved by using BLM and Antifa. A very high percentage of the main-street businesses destroyed were ethnically owned, and all were destroyed by another ethnic group, which was aided… Read more »
So no establishments to open which serve alcohol.
Unfortunaly it seems Prohibition may win the day.
The Dutch government are going to issue an updated health notice tonight 18 Dec 2021.
Thus it caused everyone to head for the shops. Thus they are over crowded and queues formed outside.
I have read extra staff were working to cope with the rush.
News in Dutch.
Another Dutch link. With Video.
More to do with control than anything remotely like a dangerous virus.
Even this variant is clever, knows when it gets to 8pm. The only reason there can be is that they want the collapse of all hospitality, who the hell gives them that right?
They give it to themselves.
Shebeens doing a roaring trade!
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The pubs have to stop complying. We, the people, can’t help them if they close their doors.
So the virus isn’t transmissable in Ireland before 8 p.m.!!