Seven people returned to Ireland today after being evacuated from Libya to Malta by sea.
An Air Corps Learjet carrying the passengers from Valletta landed at Baldonnel at about noon.
The Department of Foreign Affairs said there is a "small number" of Irish people left in Libya, but declined to give an exact figure.
"There is a very small number of Irish people left in Tripoli," a spokeswoman said. "Evacuation sites are being wound down."
She said Irish citizens remaining in the country had been advised that they must decide today whether or not they are leaving the country, which has been hit by violence and protests as anti-regime demonstrators defied a security clampdown to demand Col Muammar Gadafy’s overthrow.
The Irish emergency civil assist team arrived in Tripoli yesterday morning but was forced to withdraw to Malta as the situation at Tripoli airport worsened. The team returned to Valletta with a view to considering the situation this morning.
British prime minister David Cameron and other European leaders have agreed the United Nations and European Union should take urgent action to deal with the Libyan crisis, including tough sanctions, Britain said.
Mr Cameron's office said he had spoken separately to German chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan in the last 24 hours about Libya.
"There was clear agreement that the actions of the Libyan regime were totally unacceptable and that brutality and intimidation would not be tolerated," a spokesman for Cameron said.
"Mr Cameron) agreed with counterparts that urgent action was needed through the EU and UN, including a tough sanctions package targeting the regime directly," he said.
The United Nations will debate imposing sanctions on Libya today after Col Gadafy told loyalists he's prepared to arm them to fight opposition forces holding the eastern part of the country.
"When needed, all the weapons stores will be opened," he told a crowd in Tripoli's Green Square. In New York, Libya's ambassador to the UN, Mohammed Shalgham, pleaded for the Security Council to act and "save Libya".
Britain and France yesterday circulated a draft resolution that would impose an arms embargo on Libya and would refer reported violence to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
The Security Council has scheduled a meeting for 11am in New York for further talks on the text.
"There isn't a clear end-game here," Shadi Hamid, director of research at the Brookings Doha Centre in Qatar, said in a telephone interview. "There isn't a rebel army marching on Tripoli attempting to take it over from Gadafy."
Col Gadafy is digging himself into the Libyan capital after army units defected in the east of the country and Al Arabiya television reported yesterday that his forces shot at worshippers leaving prayers. Libya's Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Ibrahim Dabbashi, told reporters that security forces killed hundreds of protesters yesterday and "thousands" more fatalities were expected.
Additional reporting: Bloomberg, Reuters