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Drinks And Hospitality
2020 Charles And Camilla Thank Industry Calls For Tax Cut

7th, Nurses In Belfast Industry Group of Ireland (DIGI) C
A new report by the Drinks
October shows that Ireland continues to President & Founding

have the second highest overall
he Prince of Wales
Publisher
she said, ‘look there is a
and so excited to be recog-
and the Duchess
| Tof Cornwall have it with great enthusiasm Spiderman costume, and rate of excise tax on drinks in the Paddy McCarthy
EU, something which the group
real life hero there’,” she
nized as being able to sup-
EXAMINER thanked a number of port the workforce,” she said. able” with the Level Three restric- Associate Publisher
labelled “completely unsustain-
Editor
Grahame Curtis
said.
young nurses in Belfast
“It’s nice to be appreci-
tions that came into force again
completed
their
who
ated.”
Bronach
Best,
who
this week.
Inside
the
museum,
is
the
on
calling
DIGI
IRISH training early to assist in works in mental health, Charles and Camilla were Government to reduce the tax bur- Marc-Yves Tumin
the battle against coron-
said everyone had pulled
News Editor
avirus.
together as a community
shown an exhibition mark-
David Carter
The royal couple arrived of staff in the effort. ing the 200th anniversary den on these businesses. Arts & Entertainment Editor
“We’re in a situation where the
at the Ulster Museum in “I think the public have of the birth of Florence hospitality industry is unfairly and Brad Balfour
south Belfast on been great, there was one Nightingale, which also disproportionately impacted as a
Wednesday morning at the occasion when I was going celebrates the contribution result of Covid-19. Wet pubs in Sales Director
John O’Rourke
start of a series of engage- shopping in my uniform, of nurses since the First Dublin have yet to reopen – seven
ments in Northern Ireland. and met a mum with her World War up to the pres- months later – and the Level 3 ban Classified Advertising
They spent time speak- son who was wearing a ent day. C on indoor seating for every other John O’Rourke
ing with nurses outside the licensed premises mean many will Art Director
building, who transitioned shut their doors. Allowing these Heidi Gross Kelley
early from Queen’s businesses to reopen, whenever Contributors
University Belfast and the that might be, with exorbitantly Joe Kavanagh, C.S. O’Brien, Mike
Fitzpatrick, Seamus Kelleher, John
Open University into clini- high rates of tax to pay is indefensi- Mooney, Neil McDaid, Aine Fox, Sean
cal roles amid the health ble,” said Liam Reid, chair of DIGI. McCarthy, Mike Bowen, Marc-Yves
crisis. Ireland has the highest excise on Tumin, Jack McGrath, Charley Brady,
Patrick Hurley, Catherine Wylie, Alicia
Fiona Pierce, who will wine in the EU, the second highest Colon, Jason Gallagher, Jackie Cahill, Bill
qualify as a midwife at the on beer (behind Finland), and the Daly, Jim McKeon
Royal Victoria Hospital, third highest on spirits (behind Contributing Photographers
said it had felt nice to be Leo Doyle, Danny McCabe, Roger
thanked for their contribu- Sweden and Finland). C Wong
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