Table service and toilets with traffic lights: Irish pubs plan for an uncertain future after Covid-19

Cork pub-owner and businessman, Benny McCabe: outside his Rising Sun Brewery and Bar on the Coal Quay, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

Some pubs are set to reopen towards the end of the month, but only under continuing physical-distancing restrictions, according to the government's revised road map on reopening the country after months of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that the easing of lockdown restrictions will be done a few weeks earlier than first proposed, with effectively a rolling timetable of five phases collapsed into four.