Northern Ireland's Covid lockdown is set to ease significantly from next Friday as hairdressers are allowed to reopen.
Beauty salons, outdoor visitor attractions and driving lessons can all also resume from April 23, according to the PA news agency.
But it will be another week, April 30, before non-essential shops and outdoor areas of pubs can reopen, according to PA.
That puts the reopenings two and a half weeks before those in England.
The Stormont Executive agreed the lockdown relaxations today, according to the news agency.
Pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants, whether licensed or not, will be allowed to serve people in groups of up to six people from no more than two households.
Ministers had earlier been facing calls from the hospitality industry to bring forward dates for the reopening of their sector.
A plan presented to ministers earlier on Thursday would have allowed licensed and unlicensed premises to serve customers in outdoor settings from May 10.
The resumption of indoor trading at pubs, cafes and restaurants, and the full reopening of hotels, had not been intended to happen until June 1 at the earliest.
Economy Minister Diane Dodds was among those lobbying for those dates to be brought forward.
When Stormont's lockdown exit strategy was first published at the start of March, the administration faced criticism for not including any indicative reopening dates.
At the time, ministers insisted the health picture was too volatile to offer provisional dates that ultimately might have to be scrapped.
With Northern Ireland having marked one million Covid-19 vaccines by last weekend and with other key health and scientific indicators going in the right direction, ministers have made clear they are now in a position to provide indicative dates.
Key dates in Northern Ireland (source: PA)
April 23
- Close contact services, hairdressers and beauty salons, reopen.
- Outdoors visitor attractions reopen.
- Driving lessons can resume. Theory and practical driving tests resume.
- Outdoor competitive sport will be allowed with numbers not exceeding 100. No spectators allowed.
- Equine assisted learning and therapy can take place outdoors and indoors, limited to 30 people.
April 30
- All remaining non-essential retail to reopen.
- Self-contained tourist accommodation, such as caravans and rented holiday homes, can operate.
- Licensed and unlicensed premises can serve customers in outdoors settings in groups of six from no more than two householders.
- Removal of curfews on takeaways and off licenses.
- Reopening of gyms.
- Limit on outdoor gatherings in domestic gardens increased to 15 people from no more than three households.
May 24 indicative date
- Licensed and unlicensed premises can operate indoors.
- Rest of tourist accommodation
- Domestic gathering indoors
- Indoors visitor attractions reopen.
- Return of indoor group exercise, with numbers limited to suit the size of venue.
- Wedding receptions and post-burial events can take place in indoor hospitality venues.
