Sources: The Irish Times
Ireland introduces an 8:00 p.m. closure time for bars and restaurants, restricts the capacity of most indoor and outdoor events to 50%, and allows a maximum of 100 guests for weddings in order to reduce the spread of the Omicron variant. 2021-12-19
Ireland opens registration for children between the ages of 12 and 15 to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Around 280,000 children will be eligible for vaccination with the Pfizer–BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, with more than 50,000 already registered. 2021-08-12
Ireland begins to implement a EU Digital COVID Certificate and eases non-essential international travel restrictions for those who have been fully vaccinated, tested negative, or recovered from COVID-19. 2021-07-19
Ireland reports its first three cases of the B.1.617 variant originally detected in India, with two of the three cases linked to travel. 2021-04-19
Ireland reports its first three cases of the Lineage P.1 variant in people who travelled from Brazil. 2021-02-19
The German Ministry of Interior bans entry to all travellers from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil, Portugal, and South Africa from tomorrow until February 17 in order to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants. In addition, travellers from Lesotho and Eswatini will also be banned beginning January 31. 2021-01-29
Ireland reports a record 8,248 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 135,884. 2021-01-8
Connecticut reports its first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in two people, aged 15 and 25, who live in New Haven County. One had traveled to Ireland and the other to New York. 2021-01-7
Ireland surpasses 100,000 cases of COVID-19 after a record 4,962 new cases are reported in the past 24 hours. 2021-01-3
Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces that beginning December 1, the country will move to Level 3 restrictions with some modifications. Hotels, places of worship, gyms, and museums with protective measures will be allowed to reopen beginning on Tuesday, followed by restaurants and gastropubs on December 4. 2020-11-27