An assistant professor in nursing at UCD has said issues around sex and the coronavirus should have been discussed a lot sooner.
It comes as many public STI services are not operating due to the pandemic.
John Gilmore told Lunchtime Live people continued to have sex during the COVID-19 surge.
"It's a conversation that we should have been having a lot earlier - it's information that the HSE should have been producing.
"It was interesting when we were looking at originally the roadmap for re-opening society and businesses sex was mentioned exactly zero times within that."
Young people across Ireland are being asked to do their bit to stop the spread of COVID-19 by having sex online or over the phone rather than in person.
The HSE and the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) are calling on young people to refrain from intimate contact with individuals outside their household.
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