For Ireland’s publicans, it was a sign of things to come. St Patricks’ day should have been the busiest day of the year, but, due to government-imposed lockdown, their pubs were instead shuttered. On that day, Fiona Muldoon, the then chief executive of the Irish owned insurer FBD, made here way to the Herbert Park Hotel in Dublin 4 to meet with the publican Noel Anderson and Donal O’Keeffe, the chief executive of the Licensed Vintners Association. Muldoon was joined by a colleague.   During the meeting, Muldoon told Anderson, owner of the Lemon & Duke pub along with a…

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