'College life is going to be difficult': Strict rules and additional supports for third-level students

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris said he did not want “any messing around” as some students had been treated “shabbily” at the start of lockdown. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris has said that there will always be people “who do stupid things” in reference to scenes of revelry on the streets of Killarney at the weekend.

We shouldn’t lose sight that the majority of people are doing everything that has been asked of them, he told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show.