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Restaurants will reopen next week if daily Covid cases drop below 300.
But the chances of wet pubs getting some respite are out, and a source told the Irish Mirror this afternoon: “sadly, there is no hope for wet pubs.”
The hotel industry has been told that the magic number of Covid cases that will allow for a massive reopening of restaurants next week will be “in the 200s.”
Gastronomic bars will also receive the go-ahead, but some form of the controversial “€ 9 substantial meal” will still apply.
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And the authorities will look for a better way to prove that a bar is really a restaurant.
This is aimed at a restaurant having to have a kitchen that works.
It is considered too dangerous at this stage for the ‘wet pubs’ to reopen, but the pub industry is exerting intense lobbying for a compromise.
Frenzied briefings were held this morning ahead of a meeting of the three government leaders this afternoon.
Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, Tánaiste, Leo Varadkar and the head of the Greens, Eamon Ryan, will meet tomorrow before a cabinet meeting where the ministers will give their opinion.
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