Biggest repatriation in history of the State as 4,600 Irish citizens return home

Tanáiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has spoken of the “biggest repatriation ever in the history of the State” as 4,600 Irish citizens have been helped “in one way or another.”

Mr Coveney told RTÉ radio’s Today with Séan O’Rourke show that the Department of Foreign Affair's helpline had received over 16,000 calls.