Call for Government to change 'blunt' road map to reopening Ireland

Some aspects of the road map don’t make sense, said Prof Morgenroth. Books can be bought in supermarkets, but book shops cannot open and petrol stations were selling potted plants before garden centres could reopen

Economics professor Edgar Morgenroth has called on the government to change the ‘road map’ to reopening the country.

The current restrictions impose more costs, without the benefit Prof Morgenroth told Newstalk Breakfast.