Face coverings to be mandatory on public transport
Face coverings are to be made mandatory on public transport.
Transport Minister Shane Ross will bring a memo to Cabinet tomorrow calling for masks to be mandatory on buses, train and Luas services.
He will tell his colleagues that public transport capacity needs to be increased to 50% as more people return to work.
That would require the scrapping of the two-metre rule, with mandatory masks to be brought in in its place.
Cervical cancer screening to resume
Cervical cancer screening will resume in the second week of July.
The HSE this afternoon confirmed that the first CervicalCheck appointment letters will be sent out on July 6th.
Women who have been identified as a priority will be offered the first appointments.
Meanwhile, BreastCheck and BowelScreen will not be back up and running until September.
Ryanair says Ireland ‘fudging around’ with air bridge plans
Ryanair's CEO has criticised the Government for "fudging around" with plans for air bridges between Ireland and other countries.
He also said the current self-isolation rules here are a 'form-filling exercise' and not a full quarantine.
It's been believed that travel restrictions will only be eased for people arriving here from countries that have got the coronavirus under control - with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar backing such measures.
In an interim report published yesterday, a state-appointed taskforce called for the two-week quarantine rule to be dropped completely.
Both Luke Kelly statues vandalised
Both statues of Luke Kelly in Dublin have been vandalised overnight.
Gardaí are investigating after white paint was thrown on the marble bust on Guild Street at around 11pm last night - the sixth time it has been vandalised.
No arrests have been made in connection with the latest incident and gardaí say investigations are ongoing.
Meanwhile, the other statue of The Dubliners singer - located on South King's Street, beside Stephen's Green shopping centre - was also covered in white paint.
Warning for young people over long-term effects of COVID-19
A Dublin doctor is warning young people that they could be left with long-term effects if they contract COVID-19.
It comes after health officials warned that 76 of the 202 people diagnosed with the virus in the past two weeks were under the age of 35.
Sixteen of those cases involved children under 14-years-of-age.
On The Hard Shoulder this evening, Dublin GP Maitiú Ó Tuathail said all five of the patients he referred for testing yesterday were under 40-years-old.
