It was a no-brainer. The legislation increasing fines for non-essential travel and establishing mandatory hotel quarantine for passengers arriving to Ireland either without a Covid-19 test or from high-risk countries (currently 33) is about to come into force after sailing through the Oireachtas in less than two weeks and being signed into law by President Michael D Higgins on Sunday. Evidence has now blown out the spurious arguments making light of the low numbers of cases directly linked to foreign travel. The first wave started when one Irish person travelled back from Italy with the first infection detected here. After…

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