Ruby Walsh: Making sense of twin threat to horse racing from Brexit and Covid

Robert Watt has been appointed interim secretary general of the Department of Health. If, as all expect, he gets the job, it will be on a salary of about €292,000, meaning he gets a pay hike of €81,000. Picture: Gareth Chaney, Collins

Brexit and the coronavirus: One a threat to life, the other a threat to a way of life.

It has been difficult to figure out what was going to happen with either, the unpredictability of how one keeps changing and mutating and the lack of clarity about what exactly the other means.