Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan has said foreign holidays are "not realistic" this summer, and advised people not to book them.
He added that NPHET would be advising against non-essential travel "for the foreseeable future".
Is he right, or is there a chance that vaccination will have improved the situation significantly?
Anthony Staines, Professor of Health Systems at Dublin City University, and Ciaran Mulligan from thefabuloustraveller.com joined us to discuss this.