Coronavirus UPDATE: Restrictions ease and new walk-in test centre opens in Ardee By Ruth O Connell Inter county travel is allowed, religious services resume in public and retailers open for appointments only
A major relaxation of Covid restrictions gets underway today for the first time this year, with 12 thousand businesses expected to reopen this week.
Travel across counties and haircuts are allowed, as well as click and collect.
Religious services are also permitted, and
galleries, museums and libraries are also back open.
Capacity on public transport is increasing to 50 percent today.
Bus Eireann s Chief Customer Officer, Alan Parker is asking people not to travel during rush hour:
Major relaxing of Covid restrictions gets underway today
Travel across counties and haircuts are allowed, as well as click and collect.
Religious services are also permitted, and galleries, museums and libraries are also back open.
On Friday, 50 thousand Covid-19 vaccines were administered here – the largest in a single day.
Religious services are allowed from today with restriction in place on the numbers allowed to attend.
Father Billy Swan who has recently transferred from Enniscorthy to Wexford says he is delighted.
“I’m delighted.
“It’s a day of hope, it’s a day of community, it’s a day of turning a new page and having a new beginning.
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Our Lady of Knock
On a wet Thursday evening, August 21st, 1879, fifteen people watched - for about two hours - a heavenly vision consisting of Our Lady, St. Joseph, St. John, the Heavenly Lamb and adoring Angels at the Church of St. John the Baptist in Knock, Co. Mayo, Ireland - now the National Irish Shrine of Our Lady, visited by over a million pilgrims annually.
Many readers of this article will know of the famous Rosary priest, Fr. Patrick Peyton, born in Mayo and a regular visitor to Knock.
Were it not that in 1972 I had read in one of Ireland s weekly Catholic papers about the Mary Garden movement established in Philadelphia in 1951 by John S. Stokes, Jr., and the late Edward A. G. McTague, the chances are we would not now have our Irish National Mary Garden at the Shrine.
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