'Many rural pubs are small' - Vintners want customers to be allowed sit at bar

Padraig Cribben, chief executive of the Vintners Federation of Ireland, said some pubs may not be able to open without bar space.

The Government will be asked to permit customers to drink at the bar in more than 3,000 pubs which have yet to be allowed to open.

New guidelines aimed at reducing the risk of Covid-19 and which are specific to the remaining pubs only serving alcohol, are to to be published this week by Fáilte Ireland.