MAY 6, 2021 DUBLIN’S NO 1 QUALITY PRINT AND DIGITAL NEWSPAPER, FREE TO OVER 300,000 READERS WEEKLY Diary of a Saint Exclusive TIME TO SPREAD Chipper tops during lockdownHOUSEHOLDERS endur - YOUR WINGS ing winter and spring lock- down turned to their local • ITAA calls on Government to restore foreign travel • Back to normal by month of August claims Tánaiste takeaways during the cri- STAFF REPORTER with by the people. If this contin- This comes a week before non- sis, a new study has shown. ues, travel, while not returning essential retail reopens while on And it was the local chip- AS the Irish Travel Agents Associa- to normal, will open up with per- June 2, hotels will throw open per which was top of the tion (ITAA) yesterday (Wed) called haps digital passports or vaccina- their doors for guests, who will be menu when it came to buy- on the government to initiate plans tion evidence being required to jet allowed to eat meals inside. ing in meals, according to to reopen international travel with- away,” a department source told The following week, all pubs and digital ordering platform, in the EU, there was increasingly the Dublin Gazette this week. restaurants will also be allowed to Flipdish which carried optimistic official noises that travel The ITAA presented to the serve but only outdoors initially out the survey between abroad could resume earlier than Joint Oireachtas Committee on while cinemas and theatres will December 20, ’20 o April 28 previously expected. Transport on Wednesday, citing also reopen. last. Their call came at a time yester- arguments for the reopening of The Taoiseach Micheál Martin The comfort cuisine of day when the Tánaiste, Leo Varad- international travel in the coming was also upbeat this week when choice saw 26 per cent of kar, said the vast majority of restric- weeks. he emphasised that if current pro- all orders around the hum- tion would be gone by August, thus The association’s CEO Pat Daw- gress continued that we would ble bag of chips, fish, burg- returning Ireland to relative nor- son stated: “We must also begin see “the reopening of hotels, B&Bs ers and whatever else was mality again. to unwind the current restrictions and guesthouses in the month of on offer in the local chipper. With home travel regulations which are limiting inbound and June.” Chips though was the sin- loosening up from Sunday to allow outbound tourism, and examine This would at the very least open gular most popular item at inter-county journeys for the first current measures which may act as the way up for staycations in the 19 per cent. time since Christmas, Department a deterrent for international travel summer months. Researchers discovered of Health sources are also hopeful such as high costs associated with Foreign holidays are back on that the second most popu- that if the public play ball with the polymerase chain (PCR) testing.” the horizon with a host of deals lar takeaway item ordered current timetable of exit plans, that This week has seen the contruc- for post-summer getaways start- isn’t a meal, but rather there will be a “seriously improved tion industry return to building ing to pop up. As the vaccination sauce, with curry sauce and chance” of foreign travel. sites. And with increased travel to numbers increase day-on-day and garlic sauce taking the top “There is growing positivity and from work , commuter opera- seem set to approach 250,000 this two spots of the 15 per cent thanks to the acceleration of vac- tors are now set to resume full week, both holidaymakers are dar- of orders that added sauces cinations and also because the schedules for the first time since ing to dream and travel companies MAKING A SPLASH: Dubliners can look forward to travel to meals. TO PAGE 2 regulations were largely complied early January. are hoping for a rush on bookings. at home and hopefully abroad BARRY ANDREWS MEP Working for Dublin in Europe 2 DUBLIN GAZETTE 6 May 2021 DUBLIN GAZETTE MALAHIDE/RANELAGH INCIDENTS HIGHLIGHT LOCKDOWN ISSUES FROM PAGE 1 Favourite NEWSPAPERS 'More gardai needed to takeaway The second most popular type of cuisines INFORMATION curb anti-social behaviour' ordered were Chinese/ Thai and Pizza with each Second Floor, Heritage House, amounting to 11 per cent Dundrum Office Park, Dublin 14 BY AMY ROHU AND ROSE ing in specific areas are debate calling for more of orders over the lock- BARRETT increasing in the rest of garda resources for the Tel: 01 - 6010240 down period. the city. It is not specific Malahide area. Margherita pizza was to these areas”. Cllr Anthony Lavin the most popular pizza Dublin Gazette Newspapers publishes DUBLIN Lord Mayor She told the Dub- (FG) said he was shocked ordered with 61,368 of lin Gazette: “We also by the circumstances a weekly quality free title, Hazel Chu has called for them added to irish con- extra resources from the need people to respect of the ordeal. “A youth covering the entire Dublin area sumer orders. Egg fried Gardai as Ireland begins the ongoing guidelines jumped up on the car rice was the most ordered ST , 2020 SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 to emerge from 14 months although it can be hard. to avoid a gang pursu- dish when people ordered THE LATEST NEWS & FEATURES FROM THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN FREE THE LATEST NEWS & FEATURES FROM THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN FREE of virtual lockdown under Hopefully with the easing ing him. He was subse- from Chinese/Thai res- Covid-19 regulations. of restrictions, we will see quently knocked off the taurants with 22,369 por- She said the pandemic an easing in anti-social car, physically attacked tions ordered over lock- COVIDIOTS has been one of the sig- behaviour. Lord Mayor Hazel Chu and pretty badly beaten. down. BY GARY IBBOTSON Dublin’s Covid-19 numbers spiral. worn. tal came into force at midnight you can expect, a surge in new Footage shows dozens of peo- One eye witness said: “This on Tuesday as the Government and excited students in the early NEIGHBOURS have hit out at ple packed tightly into a room at is going on nearly every night. confirmed so-called ‘wet pubs’ weeks of a tenancy is challeng- massive parties being held almost Host Point Campus in Dublin 1 These are scary times for us all, would stay shut. ing.” WE NEED A every night at a student accom- as music blares – with no social they should think of others.” A spokesperson for Host Point modation in the city centre – as distancing and no masks being New restrictions in the capi- Campus told Dublin Gazette: “As CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 nificant drivers of anti- “A lot of people are I urge anyone with infor- Irish consumers were Ireland’s Leading Transport Training Company REVOLUTION - CHRISTY EXCLUSIVE - blaming young people, mation or video foot- Transport Manager & Driver CPC Specialists social behaviour occur- also big fans of burg- BY SYLVIA POWNALL The 60-year-old, who is warned that high-rise He told Dublin Gazette: “By gentrifying it they are 24/7 On-Line Booking - 30 Venues Nationwide battling terminal cancer, says co-living schemes will take “They are tearing the heart ruining it. We need to stop SINGER Christy Dignam wants “true blue” Dubliners are being over the capital unless and soul out of Dublin. It’s the this.” while a family also had to a “political revolution” to fix priced out of their own city. somebody stands up for the people of the city that make it Call us @: 1890-374837 087-636-3003 066 7186525 or email: [email protected] our “broken” system. Aslan frontman Christy working man. such a great place. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 ring across Dublin at the but it isn’t just them. We age to contact Malahide endure a terrifying ordeal ers over lockdown with moment. need to understand this Gardai immediately,” he while trapped in their car. 15 per cent of all sin- “At the end of the day and also figure out how to stressed. SEPTEMBER 0, 2020 gle menu items ordered AUGUST 20, 2020 “A male juvenile teen we have had three stints support them.” Councillor Dermot being burgers. The most THE LATEST NEWS & FEATURES FROM THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN FREE FREE THE LATEST NEWS & FEATURES FROM THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN received non-life-threat- The Dublin Gazette has 5 €100 vouchers CITY TURNS BLUE IN FAREWELL TO TONY for CLAIRE GARVEY fashion outlet CLAIRE GARVEY WIN to give away to some lucky readers of lockdown across a 14 Anti-social behaviour Lacey said the incident at GOODBYE ening injuries. He was not popular type of burger MIRACLE DRUG month period. When peo- raised its ugly head on the Luas was “appalling.” TO THE treated by medical per- was a cheeseburger with HILL... JOY FOR GLEN A DUBLIN teenager has both sides of the city in “I want to extend my finally received his first ple are kept in, it becomes BY GARY IBBOTSON forming a guard of honour for treatment of the ‘miracle’ their hero. THE streets of the capital The Sam Maguire cup was drug Spinraza – a year after 61,357 orders of this type turned blue on Tuesday as carried alongside Tony’s cof- he was first approved for it. hundreds came out to bid a fin in appreciation for his eight Glen McHugh Farrelly, 19, sonnel at the scene. We final farewell to Dublin’s big- decades of loyal support for his is now getting the special- gest GAA fan, Tony Broughan.