A Donegal hotel is offering rooms for €2 per person sharing this weekend. In a post on its Facebook page, Beach Hotel Downings wrote that it is open to residents of the hotel and up to 15 non-residents outside.

Counties Cork, Louth, Waterford, Wicklow, Kildare and Galway have been put on alert as a spike in Covid cases has seen Donegal move to level 3 restrictions.

FAI’s interpretation of 'elite' criticised with most underage games, affecting thousands of schoolchildren, halted

'No chance' of restrictions being eased if case numbers do not begin to fall dramatically