Alison O’Connor: Easy to blame politicians but the public abandoned common sense

In truth there were always going to be problems with Christmas when faced with a population sick and tired of the restrictions endured in a pandemic. Picture: Denis Minihane

If I had a euro for every daft spreading-Covid-over-Christmas story that has pinged into my WhasApp in recent days I could buy myself my own vaccine. 

The mood I’m in it’s gives me some pleasure to mull over all the detail and properly exercise my outrage — from the safety of my own home, obviously.