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Virus expert says 20,000 people could attend the All Ireland finals this year
15:49 Thursday, 20 May 2021
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There are hopes that thousands of people could be able to go to sporting events here from July.
It comes after a new UK study found that large events could be as safe as going to a shopping centre.
Currently, gatherings here are limited to a maximum of 50 people, and even then, only at weddings and funerals.
A virus expert has said up to 20,000 people could be able to go to the All Ireland finals when they are played later this year.
Give Us The Night, a campaign group for nightlife culture, has said that trial events should take place in September before of the reopening of venues by the end of the year.Sunil Sharpe, the group’s
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Niall Redmond recommends Corkonians get to Sunil Sharpe s gig this weekend (Image: Getty)
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Clubbing in Ireland has been in crisis since long before the pandemic shuttered the island’s nightclubs last March. Over the past five years, developers have demolished one venue after another, making way for hotels, student accommodation, and apartments; in early 2020, over 100 new hotels and ‘aparthotels’ were under construction or in the planning process in Dublin alone. Despite pleas from the music industry, the public, and even some progressive councillors, campaigns to save venues have been largely ignored, and it’s a deeply rooted problem. For much of the past century, dance music outside of traditional Irish forms has been vilified by the state, and cut short by its often bizarre and archaic laws.