The road out of lockdown is a lot clearer today.
Haircuts and sports are back from Monday week, with shopping trips a week later.
Cabinet agreed to all the plans brought by the Covid subcommittee.
This means that the country is set to begin meaningful reopenings the week after next, on May 10th.
In what was hailed as “a day of optimism and hope” by Minister Simon Harris on the way into the meeting earlier, the Cabinet has given the green light to intercounty travel, hairdressers reopening and sports training for adults from Monday week.
Three households will be allowed to meet up outdoors, including in your garden, and up to 50 people can attend mass or other religious services again.
A week later on May 17th will see the mass reopening of shops.
And then two and a half weeks after that again, on June 7th, it’s the big one, with all pubs and restaurants allowed to open again to serve, but only outdoors initially.
Hotels will have been allowed to reopen a few days earlier on June 2, with the bonus for guests able to eat meals like their breakfast inside.
The following changes are set to come into effect from May 10:
- Inter-county travel returns
- Sports training for adults returns
- Hairdressers/barbers/beauticians are back
- Three households or six people can meet outdoors or in a back garden
- Click and collect shopping resumes
Vaccinated households can meet with another household indoors
Libraries, museums, and galleries are back
- 50 people allowed at funerals and wedding services, but only 6 can come to the afters of the wedding indoors, or 15 outdoors
On May 17:
- The mass reopening of non-essential retail
On June 2:
- Hotels will be allowed to reopen, with the bonus for guests able to eat meals like their breakfast inside
On June 7:
- All pubs and restaurants allowed to open again to serve, but only outdoors initially
- Gyms and swimming pools will reopen
Any household can visit one other
Amateur sports matches are back on
Guests at wedding receptions up to 25
Cinemas and theatres to reopen
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