Today's Cabinet decision amounts to a significant easing of Covid-19 restrictions. What was absent, however, was the usual fanfare - including the Taoiseach's TV address to the nation.
Maybe that's due, in part, to the fact that the detail is still being hammered out. This wasn't a day for black and white declarations.
Instead, it was a case of shades of grey - and possibly more than 50 shades. Take nightclubs, for example. Taoiseach Micheál Martin informed us, reassuringly, that "what traditionally happens in a nightclub, will continue to happen". (On that issue, he wisely steered well clear of what he felt that might mean.) While he maintained "people will be able to dance in a nightclub, of course", the Taoiseach added he couldn't go