All Customers Must Leave Restaurants And Pubs By 11:30pm Under New Guidelines

A maximum of 6 people aged 13-and-over will be allowed at a table

However children aged 12-and-under will be exempt, but there will be an upper limit of 15 adults and children at a table.

Where social distancing of 2 metres per table indoors cannot be maintained, there will be a time-limit of 105 minutes.

Adrian Cummins from the Restaurant Association of Ireland says there should be plans for a vaccine bonus:

"We're very clear on this, that when we get to a certain percentage of the population that is vaccinated, we need to see a delivery of the vaccine bonus. And that means, going back to normality for all sectors, not just hospitality but right across the board, and fully is 80% of the population, then we need to see at least all sectors reopen in a normal capacity."

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