Restaurants and pubs that don't serve food were forced to shut their doors at the end of 2020 once again following a new surge in coronavirus cases.
It looks likely that they will remain closed for several months at least as Ireland battles to contain the third wave of infections.
And one popular Dublin pub has been left with no choice but to sell off some of its stock in order to stay afloat during these tough times.
Brass Fox Tallaght is offloading kegs to eager punters in order to keep the wolf from the door.
They pointed out that they will have no mortgage breaks during this period and that bills will keep flooding in all while they try and keep a dozen of their hardworking staff employed.
They said: "Hi all, It looks like pubs are not going to be back open to April at the earliest.
"Sadly, we're not getting any mortgage breaks here and the bills keep coming in while keeping 12 of our staff employed.
"So yet again we have an awful lot of stock to sell to help keep us going. We have a few kegs left if anyone is looking for them.
"Safe delivery and collection is available everyday between 5 & 10pm. Call us on 014308045."
Leo Varadkar told Claire Byrne on RTE Radio One: "Government will review the situation on January 30 and confer with NPHET and seek advice from other groups as well, and make a decision as to what we can do from February 1.
"What I'm saying is to people who are in business and work for businesses that are closed is that realistically the safest thing is prepare for the fact we may not be able to reopen those business until the end of March, and that's not to say that schools may not go back and things like construction that was limited could go back."
He continued: "There's three things that I'm looking at. We want to get community transmission down very low, we want to see the ICU numbers down certainly below 50, it's way above that now it will take time for that to happen.
"And what's very different about this wave is that we have the vaccine now. I think it's very hard to say in the middle of February to say we'll take the risk [to reopen] now when we actually have the vaccine. "
