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A week is a long time in pandemics.
At the start of last week, the pubs not being allowed to open was all we were talking about.
However, by Friday, the regional lockdown of Kildare, Laois and Offaly had taken over as the big news.
The exiting of our national lockdown is clearly far harder to navigate than the relative ease of just shutting up everywhere that we saw at the beginning of this crisis.Article and Image Credits: Independent.co.uk