Covid-19: Government to help Irish truckers stranded at UK ports, says Coveney Some Irish hauliers will have to look at other routes to Europe, says Eamon Ryan
Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 09:30 Updated: Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 11:32 Vivienne Clarke
File photo dated December 11th of lorries queuing to access the Eurotunnel site near Folkestone in Kent. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said that everything possible will be done to repatriate Irish truck drivers stranded at UK ports trying to get to the Continent.
Up to 250 Irish lorries stuck in England face returning home and dumping product after France banned road freight from Britain due to a new Covid-19 strain.