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		</div><p>Ryanair has announced it will remove up to 1,000 flights from its UK-Ireland routes in August and September as Ireland “maintains a defective quarantine restriction on EU visitors”.</p>
<p>The airline said that the Republic has become the only EU country with a 14-day quarantine restriction on all arrivals from other states in the bloc, most of which have lower Covid-19 infection rates.</p>
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<p>The company plans to cut the flights between Cork, Shannon, Kerry and Knock airports and the UK.</p>
<p>The airline said in a statement: “Last week when the UK and Northern Ireland removed travel restrictions on short-haul flights to/from the European Union, Ireland became the only country in the EU with a blanket 14-day quarantine restriction on all arrivals from EU countries, most of which have lower Covid case rates than Ireland.</p>
<p>“Air travel between Ireland and the UK is being badly damaged by this ineffective 14-day quarantine.</p>
<p>“Ryanair will significantly reduce its flights between Ireland and the UK in August and September, to reflect this suppressed demand.”</p>
<p>Earlier on Tuesday, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said tourists should be told “don’t come this season” and that anyone arriving in the country should face mandatory 14-day quarantine.</p>
<p>The island of Ireland cannot be left exposed and it was not enough to accept “on a wing and prayer” that people were self-quarantining, she told RTÉ radio’s Today with Sarah McInerney.</p>
<p>The Republic&#8217;s acting chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn said on Monday that, from a public health perspective, a mandatory quarantine for incoming travellers would be a “desirable measure” but it was up to the Government to decide given the wider implications.</p>
<p>Ryanair has previously criticised the &#8220;poor travel advice&#8221; of public health officials in the Republic, saying the National Public Health Emergency Team &#8220;failed to deliver&#8221; an effective track and tracing system.</p>
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