Pubs are daring to dream of busy bars once again as Covid limitations on the hospitality trade will lift on Saturday.
The closing time for hospitality, which had been 8pm during the Omicon wave, will return to normal from tomorrow.
Gary Cusack, owner of Mulligan's pub in Dublin city centre, said: "It's a funny one, how quick it has changed from restrictions to all of a sudden a free-for-all." "All of a sudden, to go back to the old way - not checking at the door, coming up to the counter to get your drinks, sitting at the bar - it will be all new."
"I'm feeling a sense of nervousness and trepidation that finally we might be at the end of this after 23 long months of being closed," he said. On the other side of the city at The Swan Bar, owner Ronan Lynch welcomed the moves to lift restrictions."From a business perspective, it's like getting your Leaving Certificate results - really, really apprehensive."Hopefully this is the end of it now and we can concentrate on what we do best."
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