Terry Prone: Nphet members will have to learn to deal with the fickleness of fame

It can be difficult to shake off, especially if you become famous in a way that defines a period of public life

Faces of the pandemic: Dr Tony Holohan, Professor Philip Nolan, and Dr Ronan Glynn. Picture: Paddy Cummins /Collins Dublin

THE Government is reported to be winding down the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet), although the precise nature of that wind down is, as yet, unclear.

What is clear, however, is that some members of Government would love if some of the more famous and vocal members of Nphet would just go away, stop being famous, stop appearing on media, stop sending letters influencing, if not dictating, Government policy — essentially, just go gently into the dark night of silence. Exercising their right to be forgotten would be good, too.