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Failte Ireland is expected to publish guidelines later today for the reopening of the hospitality industry, including measures for indoor and outdoor dining

This morning.

Via RTÉ News:

The guidelines are expected to say that tables will have to be a metre apart for both indoor and outdoor dining.

But there will be one key difference in the approach to indoor hospitality, it will have a time limit unlike the service that will be offered outdoors.

There is also set to be a strong emphasis on ventilation when it comes to indoor dining.

Outdoor hospitality is expected to resume on 7 June, but Cabinet must decide on Friday when the sector can serve customers indoors again.

Time limit on indoor dining expected as hospitality guidelines due out (RTÉ)

RollingNews

Meanwhile…

Former senior British judge Jonathan Sumption

Anyone?

Covid measures will be seen as ‘monument of collective hysteria and folly’ says ex-judge (The Guardian)

Jonathan Sumption?

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This afternoon.

South William Street, Dublin 2.

Dublin City Council has begun works to pedestrianise a number of streets in the city-centre.

From today, the following four streets will be either traffic-free, or have sections of them traffic-free daily after 11am: Anne Street South from the junction of Dawson Street; South William Street from Exchequer Street to the Brown Thomas carpark exit (above); Drury Street from just after its junction with Fade Street to the Drury Street underground carpark, and Dame Court from Exchequer Street.

Finally.

RollingNews

This afternoon.

Brussels, Belgium.

A masked up Taoiseach Micheál Martin in town for a special meeting of the European Council attends a gathering of Renew Europe, the largest ‘centrist’ group in the European Parliament.

Asked about the Belarus plane jacking, he replied:

“Mmmmfff arummf.”

More as we get.

Earlier: Aviation Piracy

This afternoon.

Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

The Irish Airline Pilots’ Association has urged the Government to urgently deploy rapid antigen testing for Covid-19 as part of the union’s four-point plan to reopen international aviation.

IALPA, which represents 1,200 Irish-based pilots, is holding an outdoor general meeting today at which all members attending will submit to rapid antigen testing – a measure which the union believes could facilitate the early resumption of international travel.

Pilots call for rapid antigen tests to reopen aviation (RTE)

Recover Irish Aviation

Wuhan Institute of Virology

This afternoon.

About a month before COVID-19 was first reported in Wuhan, China, foreign government contacts told US State Department officials that several workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in mid-November 2019.

The US State Department acknowledged in January 2021 that the…

“…United States government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019.”

It found that they’d experienced symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 “and common seasonal illness.”

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal, went further said these workers required hospital care  lending further weight to the theory that the coronavirus leaked from a laboratory.

FIGHT!

China denies WSJ story on three researchers falling sick at Wuhan lab before confirmed Covid-19 outbreak (India Today)

Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin (Wall Street Journal)

Meanwhile..

Orange Man Bad told you so.

Would you listen?

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1988.

Tara Street, Dublin 1.

Meanwhile…

Via Dave Jazay

Thius morning.

Taoiseach Michael Martin on RTÉ Radio One’s Claire Byrne Live.

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Um.