All destinations on the country’s list of designated states have now been removed, Ireland’s health minister announced on Saturday (25 September). 

According to the BBC, around 50 people were in hotel quarantine at the time of the announcement and they have since been released. 

Those arriving in Ireland without vaccination proof or a negative PCR test will have to quarantine at home.

Health minister Stephen Donnelly said the "successful operation" of the country’s hotel quarantine policy played a "central role in protecting the population". 

"The system was introduced as an exceptional public health measure at a time that our country was contending with the very serious risk of importation of variants of concern that had the potential to overwhelm our health service and, in particular, to undermine Ireland’s Covid-19 vaccination programme," he added.