Man fined €2k over Portugal trip seeks to challenge Covid travel laws

EU citizen living and working in Ireland took the trip to help renew his family's permission to remain there

An EU citizen living and working here is seeking to challenge Covid-19 public health regulations under which a €2,000 fixed penalty notice was issued to him after he travelled to Portugal to help renew his family’s permission to remain there.

Imran Ali, who has Portugese citizenship, claims the regulations breach Irish and EU law in being insufficiently clear to enable him foresee the consequences of his travelling to an airport to leave the State to assist his wife and two sons to extend their immigration permission.