A government chartered bringing Irish citizens out of the Middle East has touched down at Dublin Airport this morning.
The aircraft left Muscat in Oman yesterday afternoon and arrived shortly before five am, after a delay during a stopover in Cairo, with 200 people on board.
Foreign Affairs Minister Helen McEntee says 15 hundred people have returned on commercial flights in recent days, and is urging Irish citizens in the Middle East to register their presence.
These passengers say they’re glad to be back on home soil: