As resignations and apologies mount over the so-called 'Golf Gate' scandal, members of the public have had their say.
It comes following an event in Galway on Wednesday, which saw some 80 people attend a function for the Oireachtas Golf Society.
Current public health guidelines say that no more than 50 people should gather indoors.
Deborah in Meath told Lunchtime Live: "I'm incensed like the rest of the nation."
Referring to now-former agriculture minister Dara Calleary, she said: "On Tuesday, this man sat in the Cabinet for three hours to impose restrictions on people's livelihoods, people's health and well-being.
"And then on Wednesday he goes on with Pat [Kenny] to defend it and tells us that we'll just have to get used to this for the next 12 months".
"And then he went to this thing, and I think it's just an absolute kick to people who have been put through so much.
"People have done funerals on Zoom, what we have been put through has been despicable.
"I'm asking myself this morning: 'What was the three months for? What did we all put ourselves through that for?
"My Dad's in a nursing home, he's terrified he's going to get this, he's terrified the numbers are going back up.
"What was it for?"
"It's been an absolute mess... we still have the ports open, we're opening schools next week.
"People are actually terrified."
"Micheál Martin has a real credibility problem now because he's not showing any leadership, even to his own Cabinet, they're disregarding the rules.
"What is the plan here? We keep being told - and I'm sick of listening to it - we have to live with this: people cannot live like this".
"People have lost jobs, we've stopped cancer screening - there's been so many sacrifices.
"And for these people to just show that actually 'the rules don't apply to us'.
"Everybody's shoulder is meant to be behind the wheel in order to get rid of this damn virus".
Shauna from Dublin says this shows young people have been unfairly targeted.
"One of the most important elements that I hope comes out of this is that it clearly shows that it isn't just young people who are flouting these rules.
"We've been grouped into this idea that young people are the only ones breaking the regulations.
"I'm a 25-year-old and I've been adhering to the regulations and this rhetoric has really left me feeling so frustrated throughout the whole crisis.
"Phil Hogan is 60, Jerry Buttimer is 53, Dara Calleary is 47 - and the very nature of a golf society is that it's not usually young people.
"So now I'm really seriously debating whether I should continue to following the regulations in place so rigorously, so that I can officially add myself to the group of supposedly young, and now obviously old, people who have zero respect for the regulations that have been put in place for public health".
"I've been invited to many parties, and things like that, and I haven't gone - my friends are probably thinking that I'm being over-cautious - and that young people will be grand.
"And that's not the way I like to look at it.
"So I've felt a huge amount of personal responsibility to stay within the regulations, and it's really cost me: I feel socially excluded because I see things are still going on.
"I see things going on with my young friends, but I also see things going on with their parents as well - it's not just young people, it's older people as well who are breaking these rules".
"It's really worrying that the people that are making these rules, can't even follow them themselves".
