Michael Clifford: The 'green jersey' is optional for some

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, in Best Menswear in Dublin. He has described the coronavirus crisis as very unequal. Picture: Aine McMahon/PA Wire

We are not all in this together. The green jersey is optional for some, applied with force to others. The green jersey is also horribly stained since its last outing, when the country previously faced into daunting times.

During the week, Leo Varadkar acknowledged that in economic terms some have been hit far harder than others as a result of the pandemic. Obviously, those hit worst have been the bereaved and the loved ones they have lost. But the pandemic will also exercise a heavy toll among many sectors of society in terms of standard of living.