Hospitality may reopen by the summer amid upbeat forecast for vaccine rollout

The car park filling up at Claycastle, Youghal, East Cork as people avail of being able to travel within their county this week. Picture: Dan Linehan

Plans to allow hospitality, indoor and outdoor, to re-open in June or July will be published by the end of the month, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said.

Mr Varadkar said he is "increasingly confident" that it will be possible that both indoor and outdoor dining will be possible by July.