Booking system for hotel quarantine 'paused' — website shows 'no rooms available' 

A passenger is escorted to a coach by a member of the defence forces after arriving at Dublin Airport. 

Online booking of mandatory hotel quarantine rooms has been paused, the Health Minister said.

Stephen Donnelly said the Department of Health had "paused" the system due to the scaling up of the number of countries on the Category 2 list, with France, Italy, Turkey, the US, and Canada added last week.