Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has confirmed that there will be an exemption to hotel quarantine for elite and professional athletes.
But he added that governing bodies of elite sports would have to "put in place equivalent situations". The regulations exempting elite athletes from the requirement to quarantine in a hotel were signed into law on Friday morning.
When asked by RTÉ's Prime Time if other exemptions would be introduced after confirmation of the status for fully vaccinated individuals arriving from designated states, Minister Donnelly said: "Yeah we will.
Another exemption that came in tonight for sports for elite and professional athletes. Now there is a very important part of this which is their governing bodies can put