Bars, restaurants and all indoor events will have to shut their doors from 8pm over the Christmas under new restrictions announced by Taoiseach Micheál Martin this evening. Addressing the nation from Government Buildings, the Taoiseach said said the Omicron variant is now “exploding throughout Europe”, adding: “It is here, it is in our country… we […]
A further 3,628 people have contracted Covid-19, the Department of Health confirmed this evening. And there are now 420 people in hospital who have tested positive for Covid-19, down 23 from yesterday. This is the lowest figure in almost nine weeks since mid-October, when there were 406 people in hospital with the virus. It comes […]