Irish Examiner View: 24,000 reasons to be optimistic during coronavirus pandemic

As the Dáil reconvened to enact emergency coronavirus legislation, as the first death was recorded in Northern Ireland, and as oral and practical exams for Junior and Leaving Cert students were cancelled it might be all too easy to fret, to be sceptical about our capacity to overcome this threat.

In the great Cresta Run plunge towards something that might begin to look like resignation, any good news or light at the end of the tunnel is invaluable.