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January 2021 - Your Restrictions Q&A Megathread

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  • #152
    Beasty
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    Threads merged


  • #153
    BrianD3
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    papu wrote: »
    It looks to be covered under essential services according to the level 5 guidance. Under information and communications no. 9
    https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/c9158-essential-services/#information-and-communications
    Even if we assume that fluff like the Tommy Tiernan show is essential under "production of television and radio programmes" - the poster was asking about guests travelling to the studio. Yet again we are into uncertainty about whether any journey to somewhere providing essential services is an essential journey.

    Provision of food is a essential service. It can't be done via Zoom. McDonalds drive thru is open. Can I travel as far as I want to get a Big Mac in that case?


  • #154
    youandme13
    Registered Users Posts: 372 ✭✭youandme13


    BrianD3 wrote: »
    Even if we assume that fluff like the Tommy Tiernan show is essential under "production of television and radio programmes" - the poster was asking about guests travelling to the studio. Yet again we are into uncertainty about whether any journey to somewhere providing essential services is an essential journey.

    Provision of food is a essential service. It can't be done via Zoom. McDonalds drive thru is open. Can I travel as far as I want to get a Big Mac in that case?


    They are also travelling for work which is allowed considering the 5km is only for exercise


  • #155
    pottokblue
    Registered Users Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭pottokblue


    I never thought these Jan Level 5 lockdown would be kept throughout february and now into march....


  • #156
    political analyst
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,592 ✭✭✭political analyst


    BrianD3 wrote: »
    Even if we assume that fluff like the Tommy Tiernan show is essential under "production of television and radio programmes" - the poster was asking about guests travelling to the studio. Yet again we are into uncertainty about whether any journey to somewhere providing essential services is an essential journey.

    Provision of food is a essential service. It can't be done via Zoom. McDonalds drive thru is open. Can I travel as far as I want to get a Big Mac in that case?

    I remember hearing about the incident in which some people who were made a long journey to get fast food were stopped by gardaí.


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  • #157
    Mutant
    Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭Mutant


    Hi i was just wondering if anyone knows if we are allowed to travel outside county and 5km to collect a car from a main dealership.
    The car is for my partner and she works with the hse and we needed to get a new car as old one was about to give up and it is needed for her to travel to work. She has also been vaccinated if that makes any difference.


  • #158
    kwestfan08
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    Absolutely go for it. No guard is going to turn you back for that.


  • #159
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,218 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Sizeable thread in motoring on buying during a pandemic

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058061829


  • #160
    Beasty
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    Threads merged


  • #161
    Beasty
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    Mutant wrote: »
    Hi i was just wondering if anyone knows if we are allowed to travel outside county and 5km to collect a car from a main dealership.
    The car is for my partner and she works with the hse and we needed to get a new car as old one was about to give up and it is needed for her to travel to work. She has also been vaccinated if that makes any difference.
    Although many commentators and indeed politicians typically get this wrong, the 5k limit is for exercise only

    The wording on travel is
    "People are required to stay at home except for travel for work, education or other essential purposes, and will be permitted to take exercise within 5km of home."

    Hence if your trip is essential you are fine. What constitutes essential is another question, but I cannot see how picking up a new car would not qualify


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  • #162
    DessieJames
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    pottokblue wrote: »
    I never thought these Jan Level 5 lockdown would be kept throughout february and now into march....

    im certainly not adhering to this ridicalous 5km and i know most arent


  • #163
    ExMachina1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    Hi

    I'm just curious as to what happens if someone dies away from their usual home during covid.

    Say for example someone was temporarily living in Dublin because of covid but were usually resident in Tipperary.
    If that person died by an accident or suicide how would their body get back to Tipperary to be buried in their local cemetery or would the funeral be in Dublin and their family have to come up?


  • #164
    [Deleted User]
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    Just the same Way it always got home, by the undertaker.
    Funerals are essential.


  • #165
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,284 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    ExMachina1000 wrote: »
    Hi

    I'm just curious as to what happens if someone dies away from their usual home during covid.

    Say for example someone was temporarily living in Dublin because of covid but were usually resident in Tipperary.
    If that person died by an accident or suicide how would their body get back to Tipperary to be buried in their local cemetery or would the funeral be in Dublin and their family have to come up?

    They can go home of course.


  • #166
    ExMachina1000
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    bubblypop wrote: »
    Just the same Way it always got home, by the undertaker.
    Funerals are essential.

    So the local undertaker would come up and bring the body home?


  • #167
    Beasty
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    Threads merged


  • #168
    [Deleted User]
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    ExMachina1000 wrote: »
    So the local undertaker would come up and bring the body home?

    Whatever undertaker you employ will do it


  • #169
    ExMachina1000
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    bubblypop wrote: »
    Whatever undertaker you employ will do it

    Makes sense.
    Thanks


  • #170
    VonLuck
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    Anyone know if physios are considered essential?


  • #171
    odyssey06
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    VonLuck wrote: »
    Anyone know if physios are considered essential?

    Chartered Physiotherapists remain open during Level 5 restrictions as an essential health service provider.
    (according to the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists on their official Facebook page)

    And from a question to the Minister for Health:
    The list of essential services that can remain open during Level 5 includes therapy services provided by a member of a designated profession within the meaning of section 3 of the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (No. 27 of 2005). There are seventeen professions designated under the 2005 Act, which are encompassed in the list of essential services. These are: Dietitians, Dispensing Opticians, Medical Scientists, Occupational Therapists, Optometrists, Physiotherapists (which includes Physical Therapists), Radiographers, Radiation Therapists, Social Workers, Speech and Language Therapists, Clinical Biochemists, Counsellors, Orthoptists, Podiatrists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists and Social Care Workers.
    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2020-11-03/1114/

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • #172
    wandererz
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    As above,

    Are hotels (the bars within hotels) still allowed to serve pints and order kegs from the suppliers?


  • #173
    Richard Hillman
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    A friend of mine was in a hotel recently for work and bought pints. I was surprised but apparently so.


  • #174
    ted1
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    Why would they not be ?


  • #175
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    I heard noises about hotel kegs going to shebeens


  • #176
    Beasty
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    Threads merged


  • #177
    pottokblue
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    I still need to pinch myself and the fact that Jan restrictions are rolling on into april....


  • #178
    Cycle Designer
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭Cycle Designer


    I have a small construction business with a number of residential projects currenly on hold. Under the planned changes to Covid restrictions due to come into effect on 12th April will I be permitted to travel to other parts of the country to collect building materials.


  • #179
    Beasty
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    Changes announced from April


  • #180
    Beasty
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    Cycle Designer wrote: »
    I have a small construction business with a number of residential projects currenly on hold. Under the planned changes to Covid restrictions due to come into effect on 12th April will I be permitted to travel to other parts of the country to collect building materials.

    The only changes to travel are to extend it to the full county or 20km if venturing into a different county

    If your business is allowed to operate it need materials to do so. Hence I can only conclude going to get supplies for a business that is allowed to operate constitutes "essential" travel

    If though you travel half way across the country to pick up materials that are readily available locally you may be more susceptible to challenge, but I presume that is not the intention here


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  • #181
    Cycle Designer
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭Cycle Designer


    I need to collect some doors for a project, they were custom built and have been sitting with the manufacturer, 120 miles away, since January.


  • #182
    Beasty
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    Cycle Designer wrote: »
    I need to collect some doors for a project, they were custom built and have been sitting with the manufacturer, 120 miles away, since January.

    If it's for a building project I would think you have a valid reason to travel

    Ultimately though that's not for me to determine, and indeed if you are questioned it may not be for you to either. I personally would be very surprised if you were turned back on such a journey

    Just to add, I've had to travel from the South Coast to Dublin numerous times in various levels of lockdown for medical appointments. I have not been stopped and questioned once on all those 300km+ (7 or 8 of them off the top of my head) return journeys


  • #183
    Lougho
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 48 ✭Lougho


    Do we know roughly when hotels will open back to Non essential workers in Ireland.


  • #184
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,839 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Given how tentative they are to open things, I would say 1st Aug or more likely 1st Sept (when summer hols are over)


  • #185
    Nodferatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Nodferatu


    Does a yone know when we might be able to book holidays? Should we be open by early June?


  • #186
    Pussyhands
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    Never for me. I'm not going to support businesses that rip me off.


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  • #187
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,416 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    If I had to book it, the earliest I'd be thinking would be mid July, they are taking the shackles off far too slowly.


  • #188
    con747
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    17th September 2021 @ 5.41pm but that will depend on..........

    Don't expect anything from life, just be grateful to be alive.



  • #189
    Beasty
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    Threads merged


  • #190
    VonLuck
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    Don't know if this thread is still current, but does anyone know what the limits are for the number of people gathering outdoors from the 7th of June? I'm not talking about group bookings in a restaurant or pub which I know to be 6, but say a group of friends / family from a number of different households.


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