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With Dublin entering Tier 3 of the government’s Living with Covid plan, here’s a look at what it can and can’t do in the capital.
CAN
1. Go to the pub (outdoors)
You can patronize a beer garden gastropub and enjoy draft beer and other alcoholic beverages, but only as long as you’re eating a substantial meal and doing it outdoors.
Indoor dining is no longer allowed, so many pubs may decide to close entirely if they don’t believe there will be demand or profitability for the outdoor seating available. Pubs can serve take-out (and take-out to go with it, where applicable, but only once the food is ordered).
So the advice would be to look for an open pub with an outdoor serving area. And don’t forget to bring a sweater, because no matter how sunny it may seem, it will surely be cold.
2. Take away food
You can not eat inside any premises, but you can imitate the society of continental cafes and enjoy a dinner outdoors, that is, where there is an open place with tables in the garden or on the sidewalk, conveniently separated, of course.
When you find a “continuity coffee,” you should make a note of their contact details, either by phone or email, and book in advance, because everyone else will. After that, it’s a matter of keeping an eye on the sky to make sure it doesn’t get wet, or checking beforehand that the outside tables have a canopy.
The alternative, of course, is to order takeout, light some candles in the kitchen, and create your own romantic atmosphere as needed.
3. Walk, bike, jog
The parks are out there. A vigorous exercise outdoors will get your circulation going, resulting in increased well-being factor, despite the pessimistic news of late.
You can even meet up with a friend or another home, as long as everyone keeps their distance, which you should also do to prevent other people from having a wide margin. It will be like a nostalgic throwback to total lockdown, when we were only allowed to go outside to exercise.
And now that working from home is the norm, as long as you bring your mobile phone, you could treat Phoenix Park as your expanded office. After all, you have the right to have the screen break.
After all, blades of grass do not harbor Covid, although man-made hard surfaces are the devil himself.
4. Swim
The best place to swim is the sea! And the good news is that temperatures in the Irish Sea are at their highest this time of year and for the next three weeks.
So try the Forty Foot at Sandycove, suffering what Joyce said about it at Ulysses (if you’re a man), or go Seapoint, Dollymount, Howth… pretty much anywhere along the coast. Bring a non-swimming family member to take care of your money and clothes!
The pools have not been ordered to close, but some will do so and others are rebooking in advance for separate singular spaces. Check with your pool. If your phone call is not being answered, or if it ends up on voicemail, that could be a sign that your only option is the ocean.
5. See Leinster v Saracens
The Champions Cup clash between good and evil is on pay-to-view, and you may have been thinking about seeing it at a gastropub.
That is not possible now. You just have to remember which of your colleagues has a subscription. Insist on popping, bringing your own bottle, and also bringing only other members of your household to theirs.
If some other household has come before you, too bad.
You will have to listen to it on the radio.
HYPOCRISY
1. Have a great wedding
Ugh, Irish weddings were getting out of hand for a while there, especially with all that morning after stuff, and the demands that you fly somewhere exotic first, just to indulge the bride and groom’s sun-kissed fantasies. (Oh, and you brought the cash envelope, didn’t you?).
Similarly, the bride and groom must look on the bright side. Smaller weddings are great (and cheaper), and the maximum attendance of 25 after this weekend and for the next three weeks is definitely an opportunity both partners should take advantage of. Never waste a good crisis.
Weddings booked this weekend can have 50 attendees. You will look at this in future years and realize that you made personal history in extraordinary time.
2. Visit grandmother in a nursing home
Finally, he has a proper excuse not to do the obedient grandson thing, although we fully believe that he would definitely go more often if given the chance, it’s just that he has been very busy for the last time. Exhausted. We hear you.
Unfortunately, although you were definitely going to go on Sunday and at least twice next week, the Government has intervened to protect your Nana from the threat posed by other people, not that this involves you, except that you are dragged into the whirlpool of prohibition. . It really is most unfair.
But it’s about keeping everyone safe. And she’ll be happy to see you when the restrictions are lifted (which will make you feel even more guilty).
3. Travel outside of Dublin
Why would you travel outside of Dublin? The only rational approach is to channel your inner Ross O’Carroll Kelly and question every point in the rest of the country except growing arugula and radishes for the sandwiches that keep you fed.
Well, it’s a way of putting on a brave face. The truth is, this is a tragic turn of events for people who have booked staycations and for the recipients of those reservations.
If you’ve ever posted a mocking meme about Kildare cut off from the capital’s civilizing effects, the boot is now on the other foot. It’s about not infecting them.
The culchies are fine.
4. Go to work (in an office)
You are supposed to work at home, if possible. Yes, this is the most terrible imposition of all, and you don’t really know how you manage not to see that lot for a while. Cheer up! This too shall pass.
Working from home is now encouraged, though if you’re a complete masochist (or worse, considering your clip-organizing skills are essential) you can still make your way to the office, though you’d better have a good excuse if our friends visit. in An Garda Síochána.
Truly essential people, like frontline workers, must travel to their workplaces. But most of us can emulate Tony Connelly from RTÉ in Brussels and just dress for work from the waist up.
5. Go to the movies
They are closed. Okay, you’ve heard different things about Tenet and were hoping to see for yourself, but you left it too late. Just like you were going to do great things for Culture Night, and somehow that didn’t happen either.
You also can’t go to a gallery. Also don’t try to joke, that the Caravaggio exhibition has been over for years, and yes, everyone knows that he is a suspected murderer, it is not his recent discovery. But feel free to brag about Jack B. Yeats, or whatever you have.
The shame is that all those vintage suits and dresses you wanted to see at Collins Barracks … well, I fear it will be another time. But here’s the good news: Netflix and chill.
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