While the government still allows chartered flights to import hundreds of untested foreigners to work as cheap labour while Irish citizens remain under Draconian lockdown restrictions, they have refused to allow hundreds of Irish soldiers to return to their homes and families.
The lockdown measures imposed due to the Covid-19 outbreak are not stopping companies from flying in cheap seasonal labour but a battalion of Irish soldiers in Lebanon, none of whom have tested positive for the Chinese virus, are being kept in country until at least June.
380 troops were due back in Ireland as part of the UN peacekeeping rotation in South Lebanon by the end of April, but this has now been pushed back to at lest June 30th over fears by the UN that the large contingent of troops coming from Ireland to relieve their comrades will bring the disease with them.
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