The current restrictions in #Ireland are less severe than Lockdown 1, but more than Lockdown 2.
Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports also suggest a major escalation of activity in December, greater than pre-pandemic Christmas 2019.
https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/

The graph shows the 7-day moving average of 5 domains of community mobility, excluding "Parks". The three lockdowns are overlaid at 27 Mar - 8 Jun, 21 Oct - 1 Dec, and 1 Jan - present. This is a simplification of the measures in place both within and outside these dates.

Note that 'the public', as measured in activity data, precede government guidance at every date point. People seem to be attuned to and to respond to the state of alert presented by media messages, irrespective of the guidance. This cuts BOTH ways, in early relaxation as well.

School & work closures and travel restrictions preceded the first lockdown, which also ended in a set of evolving phases. Level 3 in December appears to have had no effective meaning, with mobility equal to or exceeding summer. Retail & Recreation were excessive.

Each activity line is overlaid by bold, dashed segments, showing where activity within that domain exceeded the whole-pandemic mean for that domain. E.g. dotted "Transport" means higher-than-mean transport mobility (government mandated, the only domain closely tracking lockdown).

"Residential" is dashed and emboldened where it is *below* mean, i.e. #StayHome is desired, the opposite direction of "Retail" etc which are emboldened *above* mean.

Mobility data confirm a very high (above pre-pandemic Christmas 2019) activity in December. Activity also preceded the end of lockdown, with increases in transport and workplace attendance, but especially increased grocery and retail mobility in the last few weeks of Lockdown 2.