As restaurants open this week, are rural pubs being left behind? We will be heard from Michael Healy Rae and also Sean Collender, owner of Kinara Restaurant in Clontarf and Jack Lambert, Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Mater, Rotunda and UCD school of Medicine.

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