Two Irish people injured in the explosion in Bali on Saturday were being treated in hospital last night, but their injuries were described by the Department of Foreign Affairs as "not life-threatening".
Attempts to contact all Irish citizens known to be on the island were continuing, but a Department spokesman said there was no reason to believe any Irish were among the dead. The Department has advised Irish people not to travel to the Indonesian resort "for the time being".
About 200 Irish holidaymakers who booked their trips through travel agents, as well as an unknown number of Irish backpackers, are currently in Bali.
Mr Barry Walsh, a director with Joe Walsh Tours, said the travel trade would take directions from the Department today and act accordingly.
Bali is a popular destination with Irish honeymoon couples, most of whom stay in the Nusa Dua or Sanur areas, some distance from where the explosion occurred. However, tourists not staying in Kuta usually spend at least some evenings in the popular night-spots of that area.
An Irish bar particularly popular with Australian tourists, Paddy's Irish Pub, was destroyed in the explosion.
A consular official from the embassy in Singapore will travel to Bali today to offer advice and assistance to Irish citizens.
The Foreign Affairs spokesman said the families of the two people injured had been contacted, but he declined to give any further information about them.
Mr Fergus Kilkelly, a Castlebar-based travel agent and director of the Irish Travel Agents' Association, said he believed a number of Irish backpackers were among those at the airport in Bali yesterday attempting to get flights home.
It was not possible to estimate the number of independent Irish travellers on the island, but about 200 people who had booked through travel agents would be on the island at any one time.
The bombing was condemned by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Cowen. The attack, he said, would achieve no purpose other than to strengthen the resolve of the international community to fight terrorism.
A 26-year-old Derry woman who is in Bali contacted her parents yesterday to say she was safe. Ms Jennifer Neff, an advertising executive, arrived on the island just hours before the explosion and was in her accommodation just three blocks away from where the car-bomb exploded.
