Aoife Moore: Despite the Government's efforts to mess it up, quarantine is working

Their hearts weren't in it, but the Government should have listened to George Michael — 'If you're gonna do it, do it right'

Kirstie McGrath leaving the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Santry on Tuesday. Along with Niamh Mulreany,  she was detained briefly in Mountjoy Prison after refusing to quarantine upon arrival from Dubai on April 2.
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There can't be many Wham! fans in Government, as the words of the late great George Michael: "If you're gonna do it, do it right", seem to have gone right over their heads.

Mandatory hotel quarantine, our long-awaited buffer against more contagious and more deadly variants is here, 11 months late and beset with issues.