Dr Holohan said that Ireland now has the second lowest disease incidence in the European Union, and it is falling rapidly.
He said the implication of this is that in the weeks before Christmas international travel could become the dominant issue concerning the spread of the virus as the relative risk of picking up the disease from someone returning to Ireland from abroad will increase.
For more details see https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/1113/1177879-coronavirus-ireland/