Tourists ask Government to get them home amid misinformation claims

Irish tourists in Tunisia have pleaded with the Government to get them home amid claims they were not fully informed about the impact of the attack on their holiday destination.

In calls to RTÉ Radio’s Joe Duffy, holidaymakers said they were barricading themselves in their rooms at night and were too afraid to leave their near-empty hotels or go near the beaches because of the lack of visible security outside.

While they had been told about the attack before they got on the plane to Tunisia last Friday, they said they were assured it was not a terrorist related incident and that everything was back to normal.