On The Stroke Of Twelve, The Spell Will Be Broken

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Revellers at the Tramline nightclub, Dublin last month

This morning/afternoon.

The Cabinet has agreed that midnight will be the new closing time for bars, restaurants and nightclubs from Thursday midnight.

RTÉ Political Correspondent Mícheál Lehane reports that the Cabinet has agreed that work from home advice will take effect from Friday.

The Cabinet has agreed that midnight will be the new closing time for bars, restaurants and nightclubs from Thursday midnight. Work from home advice for employees will take effect from Friday.

Covid passes will be required for cinemas and theatres but not for gyms and hairdressers.

In a change of policy, household contacts of a person with Covid will have to restrict their movements for five days and take three antigen tests.

Senior Government figures privately fear further restrictions might be needed in a few weeks’ time.

New midnight closing time for nightclubs and bars (RTÉ)

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50 thoughts on “On The Stroke Of Twelve, The Spell Will Be Broken

  1. Mr.T

    Nightclubs are effectively dead, but cant claim PUP or income supports as they can technically open, but have to shut at 12.

    So their business is now totally unviable, AND they are ineligible for any government supports! Nice one FFG!

    1. Likeable lad

      Well they have themselves to blame for it
      From the day the doors opened it was rake in the moolah
      Those also attending deserved everything they got but not the victims that came in contact with them
      The photo says it all

      Personally the operators of tramline coppers and the others were very lucky the book was not thrown at them

      1. Mr.T

        There has been no evidence of nightclubs contributing to the increases in cases or hospital admissions since they opened a few weeks ago.

  2. Micko

    Midnight eh?

    I’m sure all the people will just go home and not to house parties. Nice work FFG

    On a completely unrelated topic – anyone checked in on Sweden lately?

    Anyone?

    1. Likeable lad

      Well people will do what they want
      But now it will be smaller venues as in house parties but at least not legal licences insured premises

      To be honest if you want to go to one of these you deserve everything you get

  3. Gavin

    The last year and a half has shown us the results of FF/FG decisions in a condensed time span, instead of the usual 5-10 years to see the results, and it’s clear they are not fit to be anywhere near the running of a country

  4. Redundant Proofreaders Society

    Because the virus rises from its slumber at midnight and preys on anyone revelling, as we all know.

  5. SOQ

    There is an increasingly puritan vibe to all of this- nightclubs were the last to open and they are now effectively closed again because it would not be profitable to run until 12 only.

    This action completely discredit the passport system of course because it is a tactical admission that vaccines do not reduce spread.

      1. Micko

        Well, I bet if we could round up a few parish priests to monitor these”whooolies” or “dishcos” and get them to disapprovingly walk around, separating any young couple who got too close for comfort, then we’d have this Covid biz sorted in no time.

        Like in the good old days…

        “I’ve my eyes on you – keep it in your pants BRENNAN!!!”

  6. Cui Bono?

    Hopefully a few hundred thousand more fellow citizens will snap out of the trance and realise what’s happening.

  7. goldenbrown

    this is just step one of the two step shuffle

    I’m gonna guesstimate 3 weeks out from another full ents lockdown

  8. Diddy

    Our feeble hospital capacity cannot cope with current levels of freedom. Bad hospitals + ineffective vaccine= cancelled Christmas

    1. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

      I don’t get this cancelled Christmas lark, what does that even mean ?

      1. Chris

        People come home, meet up over drinks – a once a year catch-up with friends and family. I doubt this will be ‘cancelled’ but might be contingent on a booster.

      2. GiggidyGoo

        It’s a phrase the media have created to sell newspapers, obtain listeners, etc. Fear sells (or at least it used to)

    2. K. Cavan

      That’s right, after you eliminate all the beds taken up by Covid Victims, we’ve only 95% of the hospital beds left.

  9. fluffybiscuits

    None of it makes sense

    Cases were rising in advance of nightclubs, its schools

    Why did they not invoke passes for barbers or gyms where in the former you are up close and personal whilst in the latter you are perspiring

    Why restrict movements when evidence is emerging it stops transmission

    And even if I’m loathe to admit it , I agree with SDQ.Shes right…there is a puritan vibe but as least she can cut hair (I really do love you bbz)

    1. Nullzero

      Gyms have been open since June, they are hardly breeding grounds for Covid, they just have the perception of being so, mainly from people who have never darkened the door of a gym.

      Hairdressers/Barbers are limiting numbers and taking action to ensure the people who enter their premises are safe to enter and abide by rules.

      Tell me fluffy, if schools are the problem, how come hospitals aren’t crammed full of school kids?

      Everyone wants to blame everyone else for this resurgence, people mixing is the issue, as well as this type of illness thriving in Irish autumn /winter conditions.

      If we had been able to control ourselves this time last year we probably wouldn’t be in this situation now, ultimately we’re still paying for the notional “normal Christmas” the government proposed to us this time last year.

      Nothing should be considered normal until this has been properly dealt with.

      1. fluffybiscuits

        That’s a fair point

        The only link I can see are school kids.

        Tried to find the info on Geohub but couldnt find it

      2. Broadbag

        @Nullzero – kids don’t suffer the harsher aspects of the illness, it has next to no effect on them, but they can pass it on to older people who can end up in hospital…which I’m pretty sure everyone is aware of nearly 2 years into this thing so I presume you’re just being deliberately obtuse.

        Agree a lack of self control, confused messaging from the govt and leaving it too late to take action last year was a complete disaster and we’re sleep-walking into it again.

        edit: what Diddy said!

        1. Nullzero

          The evidence put forward from the Frontline health workers suggests that the hospitalised people are coming largely from two camps. One being older people with comprised immune systems and or waning vaccine protection and the other larger group of young adults, many of whom are engaged in regular socializing.

          Saying that schools are breeding covid is nonsense of the highest order. Contact tracing should not have been stopped however, and not having it makes determining the impact schools have on the spread of the virus a guessing game at best.

          1. Broadbag

            @Nullzero: ”Saying that schools are breeding covid is nonsense of the highest order. Contact tracing should not have been stopped however, and not having it makes determining the impact schools have on the spread of the virus a guessing game at best.”

            You’re completely contradicting yourself there, but ruling out schools as a potential breeding ground is nonsensical.

          2. Nullzero

            Contradicting myself by saying no evidence exists to support either side of the argument because school contact tracing was stopped?

            Not really a contradiction.

      3. SOQ

        I think you need to sperate out the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the CoVid-19 disease Nullzero- because they are two separate risks.

        Children have the exact same risk of being infected with SARS-CoV-2, but a near zero risk of developing severe CoVid-19. High BMI and/or advanced years on the other hand, have a more serious high risk of developing severe CoVid-19.

        That is why high BMI and/or advanced years are overly represented in hospital settings- not that more of them are being infected.

  10. D. Ments. Yea?

    I think there is gratuitous display of side boob in the above mentioned, and clearly this should be reined in.

  11. K. Cavan

    It’s weird, alright, that a seasonal virus presents exactly like a seasonal virus, so it must be the nightclubs, the schools, Christmas, bring & buy sales, etc. It’s obvious.

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