Susan Ryan (right) says she will re-open her Cork city beauty salon
This afternoon.
Further to the arrest yesterday of Christine McTiernan following the re-opening of her beauty salon in Balbriggan, County Dublin…
…Speaking to Neil Prendeville on Red FM, Susan Ryan of Susan Ryan Beauty in Cork city said she had made a “firm commitment” to re-open her salon within the next week.
“When we went into lockdown first we took it on the chin. But there was a plan then.We were told to make our salons safe, and we did that at a huge expense. Fat lot of good it did us,” she said.
Ms Ryan said the country was now in the longest lockdown of any country in the world and was “no better off” for it.
“We were told to flatten the curve, to bring down the curve, but now the Government is saying we have to wipe out the virus. That is never going to happen.”
Munster businesses threaten to flout Covid-19 restrictions and reopen (irish Examiner)
Meanwhile…
Exclusive: Balbriggan Salon owner Christine McTiernan has vowed not to reopen her salon during the current lockdown as part of her bail conditions after she was charged yesterday with Health Act breaches. Full story in today’s Irish Daily Star @IsFearrAnStar pic.twitter.com/GU0KD66uf9
— Nicola Donnelly (@kikid2012) February 25, 2021
Last night: A Terrible Beauty
Meanwhile…
A colleague points out that 20 Gardai, in six cars, were sent to Balbriggan to shut down a woman who opened her hair salon. But Darina Allen gets a nice writeup in the Examiner for largely the same offence.
You don’t play by the same rules, as an “ordinary” person in Ireland. https://t.co/bo0zBvVIJy
— John McGuirk (@john_mcguirk) February 25, 2021
Good times.
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