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The English have some of the best pubs in the whole world. Sadly, they are usually closed.” The words of the late great sportswriter Con Houlihan can be too easily transposed to our the pint lovers’ slough of despondency.
The bad news, purveyed by the Taoiseach via Raidió na Gaeltachta on Saturday, is that you can forget about a public house pint until deep into the summer at very earliest, as Covid-19 lockdown extends another nine weeks and well beyond that for bars. The less bad news, conveyed via the
Sunday Independent on behalf of the Justice Minister, is that whenever our pubs do re-open there will be longer opening hours and easier drink-selling rules for theatres, galleries and the like.