Dublin's four universities have announced that all teaching and learning will be online except for practical workshop and lab-based tuition that cannot be done remotely.
UCD, Trinity College, DCU and TU Dublin have also suspended all on-campus student social and club activity. The measure are being put in place until further notice and in anticipation of the new restrictions for Dublin due to be announced this evening.
Dublin's universities are due to reopen to students over the next two weeks. The county's one Institute of Technology, IADT in Dun Laoghaire, has already reopened.
IADT says it is confident the detailed restrictions it has already introduced should mean that it can continue to operate under new measures for the Dublin