[@MichealLehane] Early indications politically for week ahead. Closing time for bars, restaurants & cultural venues could be set at 12 midnight from last days of Jan or early Feb. Numbers attending live events could increase. Return to workplace could be in later phase Friday decision a possibility

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1. The prospect of a midnight closing time will go down well, I would imagine. /s.

2. Hopefully a return to the workplace is not considered for some time yet.

3. I love how they say Return to Work like people ain’t actually working.

   It’s a return to commuting. Getting up 3 hours before you start and not seeing your family and friends.

4. Open it up to fuck

   Edit: Permanently banned from /r/Ireland with no explanation given, muted from mod chat when I ask why I was banned. Going against the hivemind on this sub WILL get you banned be warned

5. Just end it all in the morning

6. FFS the government really need to stop it with this obsession have getting people back to the office, perhaps focus on getting hospitality back up and running gigs outdoor/indoor with decent crowds allowed to happen.

7. What a fucking joke. Just open up and be done with it. The early closing time has no scientific basis.

8. We could have a hundred in hospital and 0 in ICU and they’d still be on about phases. Grrrrrrr.

9. So it’ll be no different than where we were last June when everything ”reopened” after that 6 months of lockdown lmao.

10. Why? Why would they still need to close at 12? What the fuck is the logic behind that? Muppetry.

11. Why the fuck would they restrict it to midnight. Zero logic

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13. Open

    The

    Fucking

    Nightclubs

14. Most offices stayed open over December. I was in the office everyday and all my mates were in theirs. I don’t actually know anyone that was working from home.

15. I just want the cinemas to open longer and be able to do midnight screenings again

16. Open everything fucking up and get rid of vaccine passports you power hungry cunts. I swear they fucking love the power of it all.

17. Open everything up you softcock fucks, the fucking cold is almost eradicated…

18. for a few months before we end up in another lockdown. I’m being a negative nancy but I think it’s obvious our government hasn’t been able to deal with this pandemic and that this country as a whole is crippled. for me it’s just a matter of time before stuff gets worse for people

19. Are covid certs supposed to be done away with?

20. If even r/Ireland wants us to open up since it’s loved restrictions on the whole throughout these 2 years, then you really know it’s time to drive the fuck on

21. Look 12 is by no means perfect but il
    Take it off work at 7 can’t go anywhere these days

22. If we Winter this we can Summer anywhere. The only solution is a slow reopening because what we open will stay open.

    The idea that a government that can’t manage a health service and can’t deliver housing would somehow have such governmental expertise that they can micro-manage case rates is laughable.

23. If we were going back to normal in October during delta then we are fucking done with all of this now.

    22nd everyone needs to protest because the cowards in power will not reopen unless we get out

    Summer and a mild variant let’s get back to normal.

    More normal people need to get out and protest so the majority who want and end to this are represented and not the anti vax crowd. Because they will just label it as that despite it being about restrictions

    22nd 2pm, stand up together.

    The Dutch the French the Austrians are all out in force.

24. They are just wankers, that’s all you can say. Midnight?! Fucking seriously. Its over, end this charade finally. The restrictions are beyond a joke and have no logic behind them. How long can the majority bend over to appease a now incredibly minute minority who can’t exercise personal responsibility for some unknown reason. No just fuck off.