Reopening of schools not a signal to return to workplace, warns Dr Glynn

People are now free to travel within their home county or a 20km radius of their address and meet one other household in an outdoor public place.

Ireland's top public health doctor has urged people not to take the return to school "as a signal to return to the workplace".

Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn said there are "many reasons for hope" with the lowest daily number of new Covid-19 infections since before Christmas yesterday.