Travel restrictions are easing in Ireland today meaning that for the first time in 2021, you're able to travel nationwide.
Inter-county travel resumes with people no longer having to count their 2, 5 or 20km radius but can just hop in their car or on a bus or train and cross over counties.
May 10 will see eight Level 5 lockdown changes easing in total in a bid to get the country back on the road to normaility.
Sports training for adults is back and the big one - you can finally get your hair and nails sorted.
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It doesn't end there though, households can meet in back gardens, the vaccinated can meet indoors and click and collect shopping resumes.
Here's everything that's changing and easing today in what is a glorious day forward for Ireland:
- 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
And here's are all the other rule changes that you need to know for May and June:
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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