Third level students should consider not going home at weekends, says CAO chair

Prof Pól Ó Dochartaigh said where it was possible students should consider staying in their college accommodation for the semester and going home “only occasionally.” Picture: File photo

The chair of the CAO and deputy president of NUI Galway, Professor Pól Ó Dochartaigh has said that third level students should consider not returning home at weekends to stop the spread of Covid-19.

“We've got to think about the movement patterns that are coming into society now with the return to colleges and return to universities up and down the country,” he told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show.