Founder of airline Cityjet believes people will be able to travel abroad this summer 

It's after the EU announced plans to create a vaccine passport, to help restore freedom of movement within the bloc for citizens.

The Irish Government's advice remains that no non-essential travel can take place.

The digital certificate will show if a person has been vaccinated against Covid-19, received a negative test result or recovered from the virus.

Pat Byrne of Cityjet claims travel is now looking more likely: 

"I think there's a huge pressure building out there from people [who] have a demand and need to travel. And I think that is eventually going to hold sway on political leadership, I think, yes, I am hopeful that there will be travel this summer, maybe from mid-summer on but I think we are going to see travel this summer."