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Eoghan Corry

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Eoghan Corry is the lead travel commentator in Ireland, as well as being a historian, author and broadcaster.

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Eoghan Corry
1 year
Gleaned from #Census2023 , these are the towns that are still smaller in population today than they were in 1871
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Cars lined up to board the Brittany Ferries Salamanca in advance of the Rosslare to Bilbao crossing. Salamanca has been on the route since Nov. Official launch and commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Brittany ferries took place in Bilbao this week. #brittanyFerries 1/18
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Happy news
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Yesterday's @AirCanada flight AC843 Dublin to Toronto will be the last for a long time, another route & country gone as we continue to disconnect
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Thoughts will all the Joe Walsh tours staff on this sad day and the legion of tourism professionals who started their careers there.
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Boarding gate number, best of the innovations on the @Ryanair app introduced last week, no more need to find a screen or use a third party app
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From a passenger FR5542: "Was grand, we knew it was a rough landing by the noise. Kept on aircraft for 70 mins while they attended it on the runway. No scandal really, apart from the lack of concern from staff." #Ryanair #DublinAirport Next Liverpool arrival FR449 delayed by 2hrs
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RTE News footage of Dublin airport 60 years ago December 30 1962, blizzard conditions commencing four months of ice and snow that played havoc with air traffic through northern Europe
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Confirmed @aerlingus routes from next Monday's reopening include new Santorini service, total 35 from @DublinAirport and 3 from @CorkAirport
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Misty Liffey at #Straffan #Kildare this morning
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Ryanair flash sale tomorrow & Sunday will include flights in 2024 high season for the first time. Book between midnight tonight Friday & midnight Sunday, travel throughout July and August
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3 years
EU Digital COVID Certificate has gone live with seven countries one month ahead of deadline: Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Croatia & Poland.
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This evening Ireland added countries responsible for 50pc of our exports to our mandatory hotel quarantine list, our first, third (nowadays second), eighth and ninth largest markets.
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
Congrats @marktigheST and @paulrowantree on 4,645 copies of Champagne Football sold in 3 days & to @PenguinIEBooks . What would have happened if John Delaney had won injunction or @SunTimesIreland had taken easy option and not defended, as happened so often in Irish journalism?
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
Good news that Ireland, the only country in Europe to introduce mandatory hotel quarantine, has finally brought it to an end.
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4 years
Sad to hear of death of Robert Fisk, single most important journalist in 3 decades of conflict in Middle East & major historian of post colonial Ireland, how we will miss his insights when they are needed more than ever
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Eoghan Corry
10 months
County Kildare's lost Irish language dialect, my article for the Journal of the #Kildare Archaeological Society 2024, methinks it is the first article in #gaeilge in the 132-year history of @kildarearchsoc (footnotes are in English to make it accessible for non gaeilgeoirs)
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
Huge move by @AerLingus to extend unlimited flight changes on bookings to 31st Dec. Changes can be as often as you like and up to 2 hours before travel. Other airlines only allow this facility on bookings until June 30. #Aviation
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Direct Dublin to Sao Paolo service was prevented from startup by passenger cap at Dublin – Kenny Jacobs
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
Covid certificates and passenger locator forms no longer required for those arriving into the country will end from midnight
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3 years
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission: the EU will grant unrestricted access to vaccinated travelers from the US.
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3 months
Aer Lingus three new routes from Dublin Winter 2024-25 Malta 3w starting October 25 Marrakech 3w starting October 26 Seville 3w starting October 25
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3 years
From TODAY It is possible to enter Spain fm Ireland under Spanish law, with negative PCR test no more than 72h beforehand, negative EU approved rapid antigen test, a COMPLETE vaccination certificate no less than 14 days previously or declaration of having recovered from Covid-19.
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3 months
After the industrial action: #AerLingus flash sale, book by midnight July 18 Travel from July 20th to September 30th, 2024 N America start from €199 each way Europe from 25pc off
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4 years
From Spain's health minister Alfredo González: Spanish Government intends having Digital Green Certificate in place by June
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4 years
Congratulations to Ruth Andrews, Stephen McNally and Joe Dolan who have been appointed to Tourism Ireland board.
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
Mandatory hotel quarantine is just for optics, it will have no effect in keeping variants at bay or reducing our case numbers,with Eimear ni Bhraonáin
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
Today @AerLingus launch their trans-Atlantic service from Manchester with one A330 and three A321LRs, this could be the start of something big
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
Great expectations from @AerLingus summer schedule 2021 to be launched today complete with refund option if you change your mind on mid level fares.
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Eoghan Corry
1 year
Limerick Greenway opened in 2021 and may have the best surface of Ireland’s 6 greenways. It currently runs from Rathkeale to Listowel with plans to expand to Limerick city. There is a spur at Barnagh which was the focus of my first visit. @limerick_ie @limerickgreenway 1/22
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
Cyprus decision to allow British tourists who have both vaccinations against Covid-19 (approved by the European Medicines Agency) from 1 May likely to be followed by others
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4 years
Rapid antigen tests on arrival after travel can be just as effective as quarantining, Research by Oxera and Edge Health commissioned by airlines Aer Lingus-owner IAG, Virgin Atlantic & others
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Eoghan Corry
2 years
A good weekend: Honoured & grateful to receive outstanding contribution to travel journalism award at @TravelCentresIE @travelagentguy @killasheehotel #traveljournalism
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Eoghan Corry
2 years
Michael O'Leary speaking @Eurocontrol in Brussels, future of aviation in Europe is 4 carriers @lufthansa , @airfrance , IAG & #Ryanair , while Norwegian and SAS "can kind of keep each other up like two drunks walking home from the pub"
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
Will be discussing #travel #aviation restrictions #quarantine vaccine passports with Matt Cooper & Regina Doherty on Virgin Media Tonight Show @TonightVMTV @ITAATweets @Ryanair @AerLingus @ReginaDo
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Spain are currently linked to the gateway for Travel using EU Covid Cert
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
Ryanair switch airports to Belfast City, 8 new routes for summer ’21 opening June 1, Alicante 3w, Barcelona 3w, Bergamo 2w, Faro 2w, Ibiza 2w, Malaga 3w, Palma 3w, Valencia 2w, some going daily July, (3 more Britain routes to follow)
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Eoghan Corry
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Ryanair open letter to Minister Eamon Ryan: 'Please let me know if you would like a plan (since you don't have one) on how easily and quickly Irish aviation, tourism and jobs growth could be delivered at Dublin Airport'
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
A million EU citizens have received digital green certificates certificates in the nine EU countries which are already issuing the documents
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1 year
Largest towns in #Tipperary #census2022 , #Balllina had a population of 477 in 1991, #Clonmel only regained its 1820s population in the 1980s.
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Best to Cormac O'Connell of @DublinAirport who will be departing DAA after 41 years this coming Friday, true gentleman and champion of aviation
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Eoghan Corry
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Irish Ferries French service to Cherbourg used to sail from Rosslare, nowadays (since 2019) the trip is from Dublin on board the @Irish_Ferries cruise ferry WB Yeats @NormandyUKIE @Normandy #irishferries #seatraveldifferently , a comfortable 19 hour journey 1/14
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
Sunset after another beautiful day in #Straffan #Kildare
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Eoghan Corry
4 months
En route to Seattle for briefing by @Boeing (don't tell them I am travelling by Airbus on EI53)
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
This day 2010 new gate numbers (who remembers the B & C gates?) @DublinAirport
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
The Presidents of the three EU institutions - the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission have signed the EU digital certificate into law
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
Ireland among EU countries with 14 day/100k below 500 permitted non-essential visits to Portugal from Mon. Irish advice is still against non essential travel & Irish people need negative PCR test 72h before flight both directions. Everything open in Portugal except night clubs
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Eoghan Corry
3 months
Henley passport index 2024, Ireland has visa free access to 191 countries and territories out of 227 worldwide, joint seventh most powerful passport in the world
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
The news 65 years ago was about a housing crisis, glad to see nothing has changed
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Eoghan Corry
1 year
A reminder: British passport holders will be denied boarding travelling to EU this summer if passport expires less than 3 months before return (or passport is 10 years old). Irish passport holders can travel within EU even if passport expiry is only one day after return.
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
From today ALL passengers arriving into Ireland regardless of their origin can end their movement restriction after five days if they receive a negative Covid-19 test
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
Michael O'Leary @Ryanair response to cabinet decision requiring testing for incoming flights
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
From @Eurocontrol #aviation : Ireland is the most disconnected of 40 members states. Traffic levels per States recorded declines ranging from -85% (Ireland) to -42% (Armenia), compared to same day in 2019.
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3 years
From @ITIC : How Ireland compares tourism reopening plans across Europe
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3 years
Lynn Embleton of @AerLingus to Oireachtas Transport Committee: “Ireland should look at the conclusions drawn by many other countries and adopt antigen testing. We have not got time. we need action.”
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World Health Organisation: "24 countries have reported Omicron variants. Most cases are mild. Countries have tools at their disposal to curb its spread, including mask wearing, hand washing and social distancing. They should be aware that travel restrictions have consequences."
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
Preen at sundown in #Straffan , #Kildare , this evening, got to look your best at bedtime #swans
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
Portugal has ending testing requirement to enter today, now just Greece to go.
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4 years
Sad news, my great friend Gerry O'Hare 1941-2020
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
Expect the final act of lunacy in what was the #greenlist farce today, a green list with NO countries on it. There will be 15 countries next week when/if Ireland aligns with EU travel policy, but the capacity for farce may continue.
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
Government website updated this morning; from Monday, children arriving in Ireland under the age of 12 will NOT need a negative PCR test, bringing us into line with Spain and Portugal.
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4 years
That wintry night sky again #Straffan #Kildare #Sunset
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2 years
Accreditation for another #POTUS visit 39 years ago #BidenVisit #BidenIreland
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Aer Lingus Resumes travel to Toronto today with fares from €149 each-way
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3 years
Aer Lingus to restart direct service from Dublin to Miami from Oct 21 (seats on sale from today), just three t-Atlantic services from Aer Lingus not resuming in 2022
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Aer Lingus to commence A321XLR Dublin to Nashville service from April 12 2025
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Eoghan Corry
2 years
On stage with bib & tux, looking forward to acting as MC for #IRISHTRAVELAWARDS all set for the off
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
From @eurocontrol #aviation : A tale of two airlines, @Ryanair now busiest in Europe back to 64pc of 2019 levels, @AerLingus the most disconnected airline in Europe operating at 20pc of 2019 levels.
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2 years
Daily #AerLingus service #DublinAirport to Hartford, Connecticut, to resume from 26 March next year, Aer Lingus back to 16 trans-Atlantic routes direct from ireland
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
This day 2019 I commuted from Dingle to broadcast from the beautiful @RTERnaG studio in Baile na Gall. Office with a view.
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3 years
Lynn Embleton of @AerLingus to Oireachtas Transport Committee: “I cannot over-estimate how important a timely and efficient introduction of green digital certificate will be.”
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When Sean Penn dropped into Mulligan’s of Poolbeg St in the 1990s one of the regulars ambled over, shook his hands and said: “if you don’t mind me saying so, you should never have married #Maradona .” #RIPMaradona #eldiego
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Sunrise under the arch of misty #AnnaLivia #Straffan #Kildare this morning
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1 year
Largest towns without LOI soccer club #Census2022 Swords 40776 Navan 33886 Ennis 27923 Carlow 27351 *Kilkenny 27184 Naas 26180 *Newbridge 24366 Balbriggan 24322 Portlaoise 23494 Mullingar 22667 Greystones 22009 Celbridge 20601 Malahide 18608 Clonmel 18369 Maynooth 17259 *Formerly
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3 years
Digital covid certificate delivery is impressive, 984,000 emails and 350,000 letters. Of the emails sent, 7,500 have bounced, failure to send rate of 0.7%.
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
Crann darach i gCill Dara faoin geallach #Kildare #Straffan #fullmoon
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Eoghan Corry
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In beautiful Vermont for the eclipse, a big tourism event for #visitnewengland , 160k expected to come to Vermont for the viewing, 80k to Maine & 40k to New Hampshire
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
Another blow to @ShannonAirport as @AerLingus A321s NOT to be based there. Neither of our 2 major airlines is tied to Ireland so we could have tough time ahead thanks to our Government’s interventions to defy ECDC advice and curtail aviation.
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Eoghan Corry
2 years
Salamanca sails Wednesdays (0800) and Fridays (2300) from Rosslare. Wednesday crossing takes 27 hours languid 13.00 Thursdays. The late Friday crossing takes 32 hours, landing 8am Sunday. Prices from €417 each way for a car+2, including cabin to €111 for a foot passenger. 2/18
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4 years
GREAT news for hospitality industry as hotel openings moved forward to June 29
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2 years
We buried my aunt Kathleen McMahon (1924-2022) this morning in beautiful #WestClare , a gentle wonderful and beautiful lady, in her final years she was the woman who forgot
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3 years
From Joe Walsh Tours: "Travel protocols in Ireland are the most restrictive in Europe, putting Irish travel companies at a disadvantage. We were paying overheads, but were unable to trade and were also waiting on refunds from suppliers.
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1 year
I drove past this today (Co Offaly, since you asked). You may travel the world but some of the greatest gems are close to home.
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2 years
Tribute to those members of the travel trade who have passed since the last ceremony pre-Covid in 2020 at tonight's # #IRISHTRAVELAWARDS
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
From Air Canada: operations from Dublin to restart on 2nd July with a 787-900 Dreamliner aircraft making its passenger aircraft debut in Dublin
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4 years
Those pathetic hotel occupancy rates for Aug-Sept-Oct in #lockdown #Kildare look terrible until you compare them with #Dublin which is NOT in lockdown #savetourism
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Eoghan Corry
5 years
Sad to hear of the death of the great Eileen O'Mara Walsh, at the heart of everything that moved in Irish tourism for three decades: founder O'Mara travel, chair Great Southern Hotels, president of ITOA, founder of ITIC & Heritage Ireland, director of Aer Lingus. Ar dheis Dé.
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
Paul Hackett @ClickandGo_Hols has been elected as the 22nd President of the Irish Travel Agents Association @ITAATweets
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4 years
Irish hauliers travelling on direct routes from Ireland to France will no longer require proof of a negative Covid-19 PCR test. Irish truck drivers reported just 0.23pc positive cases.
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3 years
Aer Lingus has made available on-line the Sherpa web-site on Covid-19 entry restrictions by countries of travel and passport plus changes that are indicated as expected.
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Eoghan Corry
2 years
The great Mick O'Connell from @KerryGAA poses with young supporters at unveiling of statue of John Joe O'Reilly in #Cavan @CavanCoBoardGaa
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Eoghan Corry
4 years
5 key points of action from @itic : rapid testing regime to replace quarantine, reduce VAT to 9pc, waive commercial rates to April 2021, bring EWSS in line with TWSS, continuity grants of €500m, double marketing funds and tourism budgets.
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Eoghan Corry
3 years
We are the antigen sceptics of Europe as it stands
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