Covid Could Call Last Orders For Much Of Ireland's Pub Culture

If we, as a nation, can put half as much effort into building new businesses in 2021 as we put into building sheebeens in 2020, then our economy is set for lift-off.

- Joe O’shea

Seriously, the pictures of the pop-ups that have been popping up all over the country would make you believe that a lot of people out there have missed their calling as interior decorators.

Sure, it’s an awful thing to be doing in the middle of a pandemic that’s taken a dramatic turn for the worse (just as the vaccines come on line).

But you have to take note of the effort – there are some sheebeens that would make your posh local gastropub look like a hole in the ground.