Outside the venue, customers sat with tables full of bank holiday pints of Guinness and cheese toasties. Daniel Smith, a barman at the pub, said today “feels like a victory” for those in the industry, after a long 15 months of closed doors. It’s great to be back.”Card tipsOver near the Jervis Shopping Centre, bank holiday shoppers stopped off for lunch at the Mad Egg restaurant on Millennium Way. The atmosphere at Christmas had been “more electric” but today was a “nice, sunny bank holiday” and everyone was in good humour. Mad Egg was operating a walk-in service, and within 30 minutes of opening, every table was full.

Source: The Irish Times June 07, 2021 14:38 UTC