Mick Clifford: What happens when compassion runs dry?

There is recent experience in this country of how the public moves on from a humanitarian crisis that corrals public attention for a defined spell

Tessa May Stewart Miller, 11, at a vigil outside the Ukrainian embassy in Dublin over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The widespread, genuine compassion for fellow Europeans being killed or fleeing for their lives has been manifest right across society.

TWO questions leap out from the growing crisis in which this country now finds itself. Where have all the savings gone? And what is going to happen when compassion fatigue sets in?

As the full effects of the war in Ukraine feed through, galloping inflation is going to ramp up even higher. The speed of price hikes, particularly in the energy sector, is alarming.