Businesses preparing to re-open for the first time this year

Hairdressers and barbers can welcome customers back and shops can offer click and collect or in-store visits by appointment

Inter-county travel is also allowed from tomorrow, and 3 households can meet outdoors in groups of up to 6 including in someone's garden.

Dylan Bradshaw owns a hair salon in Dublin - and says it's been a busy few days preparing to reopen:

"We're delighted in fairness, it's great that we know that we're back in business. But having said that, we also, the next day once the announcement we had 850 emails straight away, and that's besides the 2000 that are in a queuing system for appointments so my team there's for the guys in front of house and they've been working tirelessly essence the announcements, work right through the weekends and everything, trying to get through all those calls and appointments."

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