The number of foreign residents who arrived into Dublin Airport increased by nearly 66% last week.
It was the first full week of mandatory hotel quarantine.
🆕The number of non-Irish residents who arrived into Dublin Airport increased by 66 per cent last week - despite the introduction of hotel quarantine pic.twitter.com/QVZ9seCDcu
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Non-Resident Arrivals Up Over 3,400 Week To Week
Mandatory hotel quarantine was introduced here on Friday, March 26th.
And these new figures, from the Department of Justice, relate to the following week.
That's Monday, March 29th, to last Sunday.
14,105 people arrived into Dublin Airport during the seven days - up 17.5% on the previous week.
There was a much bigger increase in the number of foreign residents who flew into the airport.
That figure increased by two thirds - to 8,560, which is over 3,400 more than the previous week.
The number of Irish residents who arrived into the airport dropped by 19%, to 5,545.
Up to 70% of people were travelling for non-essential reasons.
