Customers at a town centre restaurant in Tralee, Co Kerry are being temperature checked and asked if they have been abroad. If they have not quarantined, then they are being politely refused entry.
Two groups of US diners were turned away from the Croí Restaurant in the historic Princes Street quarter of Tralee after admitting they had not quarantined, according to a chef who works there.
Noel Keane said that the tourists were drop in diners, and were turned away last Wednesday and Friday. One group was of three people, and the other was a party of four.
While one group said okay to being turned away, a man in the other group said the Covid-19 pandemic was "over-hyped," Mr Keane said. "Basically they did not believe the pandemic was