She booked the flight last February but if the Canary islands don’t make it onto Ireland’s green list, she will miss the wedding.
Having lived in Tenerife for 37 years, Corridan, who is one of the organisers of the annual St Patrick’s Day gala dinner there, is horrified at what the collapse in tourism since lockdown has done to the economy.With the big hotels still closed and smaller cafes and bars slowly getting back in business, she knows of people who are depending on food parcels. Many workers had to wait six to eight weeks before the local version of a Pandemic Unemployment Payment was paid.
Four months ago O’Flynn was reporting from the hotel in Tenerife where 1,000 guests, some of them Irish, were stranded after an Italian tourist tested positive for the virus. The communications and liaison officer with the local town hall will be prevented from seeing her own family in Dublin if the quarantine laws are not eased. “I’d like to go home to see my sisters for a few days, sit out in the garden with my Dad who is in his eighties. I normally pop over to Dublin in the summer but if it’s not allowed it won’t ruin my Iife. I won’t break the rules”.
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