Social media users are claiming that the Republic of Ireland is the laughing stock of Europe as the Taoiseach Micheal Martin, Leo Varadkar, Eamon Ryan and Tony Holohan have imposed more draconian measures on the Irish people.
The Republic of Ireland will see people required to have been fully vaccinated to dine indoors from July 19th. If you’re not fully vaccinated then you may as well forget about it because you’ll be out in the cold, wind and rain because that’s meant to be seen as “safe”.
Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland, anyone can go into a pub or restaurant and get served food regardless of whether they have been vaccinated or not. No discrimination in the North, it would seem.
The government say that they’ll have some sort of vaccination certificate system ready for July 19th so that restaurants and pubs can only serve food indoors to those who produce evidence that they have been double vaccinated.
Speaking at Government Buildings, the Taoiseach Micheal Martin said “we are in a race between the variant and vaccine…and we want to do everything we can to ensure the vaccines win”.
He demanded people get the vaccine in order to “keep up the progress”, as reportedly Tony Holohan and NPHET said there would be a disaster in August if the Delta variant got a grip of Ireland.
Martin said that the reopening of indoor hospitality will now open be allowed to people who are fully vaccinated or recovered from Covid-19 infection and that it will reopen on July 19th.
He said that the government will have a vaccine certificate system ready for July 19th which many people say is discriminatory, especially considering you can go to Northern Ireland and eat indoors no problem.
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