Angry, accepting, upset, uncertain, confused and conflicted These are just some of the reactions of Irish people living abroad to Leo Varadkar's advice today about not booking flights home for Christmas.
Dubliner Audrey Eager lives in London and booked her flights to return home for Christmas in March. She had been working out ways to minimise the risk of returning to stay with her mother by avoiding public transport and finding a place to isolate on arrival to Ireland.
She described Mr Varadkar's comments as "careless" and said they made her "absolutely livid". She accused the Tánaiste of "washing his hands" of the diaspora and said Mr Varadkar had "not given any thought to how this would make people feel, not just people abroad but