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Hospitality sector caters in the art of the possible
Updated / Thursday, 7 Jan 2021
12:34
South East Correspondent
Few, if any, branches of the Irish economy were left unharmed in 2020 as a result of you-know-what, and the hospitality sector was probably the one that suffered the most. But those operating within that field are resilient if nothing else: they had to be and will have to be again in the coming months.
From those frightening days in March, when the scale of the impact the pandemic would have on our nation s health and also our national economy began to dawn on us all, and the shutters started coming down on many, many businesses in our cities, towns and villages; through the optimism of summer; the nervy weeks of autumn as the numbers rocketed again; and the dark winter evenings when we wondered if and when more restrictions would land; the people who own and work in our hotels, B&Bs, restaurants, pubs, and cafés have been dealing with uncertainty throughout.