Ring does not support 5km rule for rural Ireland

Fri, Oct 23, 2020

Businesses and organisations across the county have had to lock their doors for a second time this year following the move to Level 5 of the Living With Covid plan for six weeks introduced by the Government from Thursday of this week.

A raft of new measures and restrictions were introduced as part of this move to Level 5 of the plan, one of them being for people to restrict their movement to within 5km or their homes, with penalties put in place for those caught outside of the 5km radius without an exemption for work or essential purposes.

Fine Gael TD Michael Ring told the Advertiser this week that he would not be supporting the 5km rule, saying that it was impractical for people in rural Ireland and that he had stated so at his party's parliamentary party meeting this week.