Thin patience and low optimism greets government's lockdown exit plan 

The Irish Examiner's readers have described their low optimism ahead of the government's plans to exit the Level 5 lockdown. Picture: Julien Behal

This week the government announced plans for an easing of restrictions in the weeks and months ahead and set out their target goals in the national vaccination programme. 

It comes three months after the country entered its third lockdown in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus.