Government urged to let people break 5km travel restriction to buy Christmas trees

Noah Chase who just received a delivery of two hundred potted living Christmas trees at the Deelish Garden Centre, Skibbereen, Co Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

People should be given a special dispensation to travel beyond 5kms from their homes to buy a real Christmas tree, it has been argued. 

Independent TD from Sligo, Marian Harkin, and the owner of a West Cork garden centre have appealed to the Government to allow extended travel for the purchase of 'real trees' under Level 5 restrictions in the run-up to December 25.