The new president of the Irish Travel Agents Association doesn’t mince his words on Ireland’s Covid restrictions. “We’d have more freedoms in Myanmar and more democracy in North Korea,” says Paul Hackett.
He’s fired up after a call with Ireland’s National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) the day after it vetoed the proposed reopening of indoor hospitality in Ireland on 5 July.
“We have one Covid case per day and fewer than 50 in hospital," he continues. "Yet Nphet is predicting 700,000 additional Covid cases in the next three months among a population of 4.6 million if we reopen indoor hospitality on 5 July. They are trumping reasonable data.”
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