Irish people have been jetting abroad in their thousands since international travel resumed this summer.
Around ten of the 27 EU nations are facing a Covid situation of "very high concern", according to the European Centre for Disease Control. People who are not vaccinated will only be permitted to leave their homes for limited reasons such as working or buying food. Despite the worrying trend across the bloc, Irish travel expert Eoghan Corry has reassured people that it is still safe to travel in the coming months.
"It tends to be the unfashionable suburbs of the large cities. When you go to the places Irish people go, Alicante, Lanzarote, Palma de Mallorca, the case numbers aren't high, there are exceptions to that but they're rare." "We also have another issue which I didn't see coming and that is that some countries are putting a sell-by date, an expiry date, on the vaccinations," he said.