Letters to the Editor: Full capacity reopening is ignoring the virus threat

Tourism minister has capitulated to go ‘gung-ho’ for the ‘full monty’ reopening with few credible protective measures in sight
Letters to the Editor: Full capacity reopening is ignoring the virus threat

Large numbers queue to get into Copper Face Jack's in Dublin on Friday night when nightclubs around the country reopened. Picture: Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie

Arts and Tourism Minister Catherine Martin’s ‘express’ ministerial stroke from zero to full capacity in nightclubs and gigs beggars belief, given the current high number of Covid cases and the contradictory guidelines for operating such late-night revelling freedoms.

She has capitulated to go ‘gung-ho’ for the ‘full monty’ reopening with few credible protective measures in sight.

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