Passengers arriving into Ireland from outside EU + Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland.
Please note: This includes those arriving from Great Britain.
If your journey originates in a country which is not a designated State.
If you are travelling to Ireland from abroad you must fill out a Passenger Locator Form before departure.
If you have valid proof of vaccination (see above), no travel-related testing or quarantine will be necessary.
If you have valid proof of recovery from COVID-19 in the past 180 days (see above), no travel-related testing or quarantine will be necessary.
If you do not have valid proof of vaccination or recovery, you will need to:
- present evidence of a negative result from a RT-PCR test taken within 72 hours prior to arrival into the country.
- self-quarantine for 14 days.
If you receive a negative result from a RT-PCR test taken from day 5 onwards after arrival into Ireland, you will be able to leave quarantine.
Proof of Vaccination (other than an EU DCC)
Proof of vaccination’ means a record or evidence in written or electronic form in the Irish language or the English language or an official translation that contains the following information:
- confirmation that the person to whom the record or evidence refers is a vaccinated person;
- the date or dates on which the person was vaccinated;
- the body in the state concerned implementing the vaccination programme.
Vaccinated Persons
For the purposes of travel, you are considered vaccinated if you have been vaccinated with a vaccine approved by the European Medicines Agency with recommended number of days after the final dose, as below. Currently mixed doses and one dose plus recovery are not recognised as a vaccinated person.
Full course of any one of the following vaccines: |
Regarded as fully vaccinated after: |
Pfizer-BioNtech Vaccine : BNT162b2 (Comirnaty®) |
7 days after 2nd dose |
Moderna Vaccine CX-024414 (Moderna®) |
14 days after 2nd dose |
Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine ChAdOx1-SARS-COV-2 (Vaxzevria® or Covishield) |
15 days after 2nd dose |
Johnson & Johnson/Janssen Vaccine Ad26.COV2-S [recombinant] (Janssen®) |
14 days after single dose |
Proof of Recovery
The following is required to satisfy the proof of recovery criteria to enter Ireland:
- an EU Digital COVID Certificate.
- a Covid-19 certificate that has been issued by a state other than a Member State and recognised as equivalent to the EU DCC as set out in the EU DCC regs.
- record or evidence in written or electronic form in the Irish language or the English language or an official translation that contains the following data:
(a) name: surname(s) and forename(s), in that order;
(b) date of birth;
(c) disease or agent the citizen has recovered from;
(d) date of first positive test result;
(e) Member State of test;
(f) certificate issuer;
(g) certificate valid from;
(h) certificate valid until (not more than 180 days after the date of first positive test result). |
