Six days before Thursday’s announcement by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar that schools, colleges and cultural institutions would close, the owner of the Dublin-based two Michelin star restaurant The Greenhouse, Eamonn O’Reilly, had called out the authorities and lobby groups about their handling of the situation in comments published on Twitter. “Restaurant cancellations along with a massive decline in future bookings mean our restaurants are on the edge, we’re now surviving on Friday & Saturday business only & I’m sure many others are in the same situation,” O’Reilly wrote in his first tweet. “I’ll probably get lambasted for this as we do…
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