Pubs and restaurants have reopened in Ireland with safety measures in placeIrish pubs unlocked their doors and began pouring pints yesterday, ending a 15-week dry spell forced by the nation’s coronavirus lockdown. Pubs serving food as well as restaurants and hotels were permitted to open as the country entered the penultimate stage of its plan to lift restrictions. “Guinness is good for you,” quipped Mark O’Mahony, the first to order a pint with his breakfast at Dublin’s Doheny & Nesbitt pub. “Without it, it hasn’t been much good really.”Staff milled around the wood-panelled bar’s sparse tables wearing rubber gloves and face visors, guiding customers around a one-way system marked on the floor. Under new measures the traditional experience of a heaving Irish pub has been curtailed.

Source: The Times June 29, 2020 23:11 UTC