'We should be opening every place, bar Dublin and Cork': Kerry councillor calls for lockdown end

Cllr Donal Grady in Killarney in 2014. Picture: Eamonn Keogh (MacMonagle, Killarney)

The severe lockdown in Kerry and other rural counties showing low infection levels and low fatality rates of Covid-19 should be lifted and rural areas should not have to wait for Dublin, says a Kerry councillor and former mayor of Killarney.

Comparatively high levels are being recorded in Dublin and the Dublin region which is consistently reporting more than half the confirmed cases. However, Kerry should not have to wait for Dublin to lift restrictions, says Cllr Donal Grady (Ind) former mayor of Killarney.