Ireland And Covid Restrictions

[dannyboy]

Ireland has been in what is called 'Level 5' restrictions since 30 December 2020. Some restrictions are easing slightly from tomorrow. One of those is "Two households can meet up with each other outdoors for social and recreational purposes, however, not in private gardens".  So I can talk to Gerry, the farmer who owns the land surrounding my house, as long as we are on his side of the boundary to my property, but he can not come into my garden to talk to me.  . As Louisa says, "That's Irish".

[PLD]

By the UK equivalent rule, if there is a public right of way across his land, yes it's counted as a public place, otherwise it's private land and the same rules apply as in your garden...
(UK rule was relaxed a couple of weeks ago, so now 6 persons or 2 households anywhere outdoors)

[Bob G]

Reminds me of when I was in Vancouver with a work colleague. We'd gone to a bar with a paved outside section in the middle of Gas Town. There was traffic and people all round us. He wanted a smoke.
He had to go outside the bar and stand on the outside of the railings separating the bar from the sidewalk/pavement. I on the other hand had to stay in the bar to drink as I couldn't drink in a public place. We were actually closer to each other separated by the iron railings than if we had sat opposite each other at the table at the bar, but that was the law.

My wife and I also caused uproar in the restaurant in the Westin Toronto when we wanted to take a half finished bottle of wine from the restaurant up to our room.
We couldn't take the bottle out of the restaurant into the public areas without two people to escort us (one each I guess), who also rode with us in the lift to make sure we went to our room with the opened bottle of wine.

Sometimes it takes Canadians to make us realise we are not that Irish after all

Oh and we have since learned to drink all of a bottle of wine in lockdown...and sometimes more, so the Toronto incident wont happen again either!

Bob