Taoiseach doubtful restrictions will be lifted on May 5 as virus to take a 'large toll' on nursing homes

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says that he does not know if the country can relax restrictions on May 5 and said that restrictions could be reintroduced.

The additional three weeks of movement restrictions ends at midnight that night, but speaking in the Dáil this afternoon, the Taoiseach said he wasn't certain they would be, with the process set to take months.