By Lindsay Rogers Ireland has maintained some of the longest-running travel restrictions in the European Union, but after coming out on the other side of a countrywide Omicron outbreak which led to it having the second-highest rate of infection in Europe just last week, the country is ready to do away with virtually all the COVID rules. In a televised address on Friday, Prime Minister Micheal Martin announced that — per the advice of public health officials — bars and restaurants would no longer need to close at 8 p.m. or to ask customers for proof of vaccination, and all venues, both indoor a…