Mandatory quarantine laws 'illogical and unreasonable', High Court told

The High Court in Dublin is examining two separate challenges to mandatory hotel quarantine requirements for people arriving in Ireland from designated countries. Counsel for the applicants argued that the measures breach constitutional rights to liberty and amount to unlawful detention. One applicant is a healthcare worker based in Letterkenny, County Donegal, who returned from South Africa on 9 April and has since…