New Covid-19 restrictions will be in place until January 31st, including a ban on click and collect and construction work.   For more on this, we heard from by Jean McCabe, deputy chairperson of Retail Excellence and owner of Willow.Ie and Tom Parlon, Director General of the Construction Industry Federation (CIF).

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