An Independent councillor has warned the Irish public to "cop on and behave themselves" following "flabbergasting scenes" on beaches yesterday.
Councillor Tom Fortune slammed visitors to his local town who ignored the 2km rule on Sunday and travelled miles to the local beach just to enjoy the good weather.
Furious Fortune admitted his disgust as Gardai had to take time out from their busy schedules to "come and get people to go home".
The Wicklow councillor said the car park at the sea front in Kilcoole had around 30 cars in it throughout the day and estimated that at least 50 to 60 people were there at any given time on Sunday afternoon.
He told Newstalk Breakfast: “It was flabbergasting, that people had to be told to go home.”
“It’s unfortunate the guards had to go out yesterday getting people who were there already to move away.
"It's just unbelievable that in the current climate that's what the guards had to do, it's most unlikely that they were all from within two kilometres.
“I think there's a kind of misunderstanding from some people that they think that they can drive perhaps any distance and then it's okay to walk two kilometres.
“That's giving people the benefit of the doubt. It would appear that a lot are not caring about the situation which is a bit frightening.
“It’s a beautiful walk, but with that amount of people it's not easy to keep the safe distance.
“The gardaí were there on two or three different occasions trying to get people to behave and cop on to themselves.
