Irish Examiner View: Hear the cries of the homeless

The country has a temporary government, political parties are still unable to create a working coalition, and a public health emergency is changing the way we live and threatening to turn the Finance Department’s public spending calculations inside out.

It’s likely that the economic consequences of the Covid-19 trauma will be as grave, in the short term at least, as those of the financial meltdown in 2008. Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin are right when they say the crisis will pass, and that, as the Taoiseach said during his short stay Washington DC, “… in time, our lives will go back to normal”.