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FROM MONDAY, THE government’s air travel Green List will be cut from seven countries to four.
Joining Cyprus, Finland and Latvia on the list is new entrant Liechtenstein. In the case of the first three, quarantine, testing or other restrictions are in place for arrivals from other countries including Ireland.
Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Iceland will be removed from the Green List.
Under the green list travel advisory, people can travel to the countries on the list for non-essential travel and return to Ireland without a need to restrict their movements.
However the Level 3 restrictions currently in place in Dublin apply for both domestic and overseas travel, meaning people in the capital won’t be able to go abroad except for essential reasons. People from Donegal will also be encouraged not to travel abroad as it enters Level Three.
The advice for people in other counties is to avoid non-essential travel abroad, other than to countries on the Green List, where the advice is to take normal precautions.
So, until Sunday evening, people will still be able to return to Ireland from Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Iceland and not be required to restrict their movements upon return.
However, from Monday morning, they will have to restrict their movements if returning from these countries.
On 15 September, the government agreed the Green List will be updated on a weekly basis.
The new system will see EU/EEA countries with an incidence rate of fewer than 25 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in the past fortnight included on the Green List.
This system will remain in place until the EU’s new “traffic light” system comes into force. This is expected to happen next month.
Airlines have repeatedly criticised the government for its approach to air travel during the pandemic.
Updates are made to the Green List each Thursday to take effect the following Monday.
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You couldn’t make this madness up! Joke of a Greenlist.
@Its Me: Dubs would have to self isolate and get a test done to get in Germany anyway so just write it off unless these 4 places show up.
@Paul Cunningham: you only have to self isolate in Germany while waiting for the results of your test.
Tests can be taken at the airport, cost 70 EUR and results are ready within 12 hours. You’re free to go to your accommodation while waiting for the results.
Germany has a proper process to deal with arrivals from high risk EU countries, unlike us with the completely pointless green list.
@Gabriel Chagas: Test on arrival is free at all German airports
@Luke Windak: yes, but only for arrivals from high risk countries. Tests were free for all arrivals until the 15th of September. We are on the high risk now so you’re correct, it’s in theory free of charge, but the Centogene lab website does not make that distinction for Frankfurt airport, maybe it’s only free at the Red Cross test centre?
@Its Me: so we’re at 125 and will only accept others below 25? Genius
Michael O’Leary got it right, “a government that couldn’t run a sweet shop”… brilliant!
@JoyMonkey: unlike O’Leary with his sweatshop
@JoyMonkey: o’leary is full of BS. He doesn’t have to deal with the mess after people travel.
Wouldn’t have been easier just to close the airports in March and leave them closed until things improve…
As stated in court last week by Government, there are no Restrictions, only Advisories and Guidelines. No law there to stop you all
So off you all go, book yer flights, go where you feel safe. Don’t mind this pointless Green list bunk, tomorrow and the day after it will be some other country, plenty of flights coming in and out of this country from countries not on their ridiculous unenforceable lists.
Absolute joke. Forget the whole green list if they are going to be so ridiculous about it. What is the actual point of it since, even if you actually want to go to one of the few countries on the list, you can’t plan more than a week in advance in case it gets taken off due to some arbitrary number. Germany for example is doing a lot better than we are and yet you have to quarantine if you come from there. Why? They are going to completely destroy the country with their nonsense
Oh so many choices. We are so spoiled.
@Isabel Oliveira: Liechtenstein doesn’t even have an airport ffs, hahaha
@Isabel Oliveira: yes. So disappointed Greenland is off the list.
On Monday Germany and Poland went on the green list and next Monday it goes of the list.
How do you plan anything within a week?
Look, the government didn’t bother. If someone wants to come back use Belfast airport.
Utterly ridiculous. We need to ensure as many travel corridors as possible are opened as soon as possible.
@CSR: No close them all. Every covid case ultimately came from abroad. We will never get this thing under control if people can freely waltz in here and start a new cluster.
The only reason our borders never shut is because of Ff/fg’s Europhile “nationalism and borders are passé/obsolete” ideology
@Quiet Goer: should we start digging bunkers aswell? Lock everyone in doors.?
@CSR: It’s actually becoming hilarious. We’ve lost our collective minds.
@pcass_1@yahoo.ie: yes but only upto 6 from one household
You’ve to go through Austria or Switzerland to get to Liechtenstein. You couldn’t make this stuff up.
We are lead by cowards – but we’re also a nation of cowards for putting up with all of this.
Most of continental Europe has nothing like the restrictions we have here.
Soon enough there won’t be a single country on the list.
Isn’t this Green List supposed to be the responsibility for the Minister for FA… meaning Foreign Affairs but more correctly meaning Fcuk All, judging by the countries on the list.
At that stage, I think Ireland’s recession will be over by the time is Apes control the planet.
@Claude Saulnier: ‘the’ as opposed to ‘is’, sorry.
But what about Greenland?!
I’m laughing just not to cry…. I was supposed to buy flights for the Halloween week to go back to my folks in Italy…. how can anybody do that?
@Proudly Italian: self isolation is advised and not mandatory. If you can work from home there’s absolutely nothing stopping you from going.
That’s great news! I always wanted to go to Liechtenstein
The Green list is meaningless and can be ignored. Travel where you want and observe the rules.
All them countries youbeither have to isolate their for 2 weeks or have a test done 72 hours in advance and have a cert I think. So essentially they are advising you to go no where. I could get why other countryside might bar us coming but can’t understand why we shouldnt travel to countries that have less then half our incident rate if they are cool with it.
@Seaniecp: excuse the typos.
@Seaniecp: No one should be travelling anywhere. There’s a pandemic going on, worldwide for the past 6 months. Every country is advising against non essential travel. How are people still not getting this?
@Ci: probable because that hasnt been the message from any government.
@Seaniecp: Yes it has, from every government. No govt is advocating non essential travel. Eejits just want to book holidays and continue on as if there isn’t a pandemic going on and then whinge about it
So they didn’t update the green list for over a month when they would have us to add countries and now they’re doing it weekly.
Nobody wants us to visit, green list is a waste of time
Slim pickings
So can I clarify
If a colleague flies in from England he has to isolate?
If he drives in on a van does he?
Why have I seen so many GB reg cars touring Ireland?
@Michael Shannon: nope if you come from the North there is no quarantine. So basically you are ok if you get a bus or train from Belfast but if you get a flight from London then you must isolate for 2 weeks….. Its an absolute joke
They can stick their green list up ….where the sun never shines
Let’s put Germany on the green list because they are doing so good. One week later… Actually let’s remove them because Ireland does a bad ass job at keeping their numbers at bay. Seriously why do you even bother with this green list. I had a flight booked to Germany this weekend. Now I had to abandon my plan once again.
The test takes 48 hours to come back and I would have only been there 3 days.
@Janine Dolan: you can do a test when you leave Germany at the airport and the result comes back in 6 hrs
Finally, sir Ulrich can come visit…
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