Aoife Moore: Holohan and Reid say much, but reveal little

On a day where our public officials were supposed to shed light on the inner workings of our pandemic response, many could attest to their brain socially distancing from their body while watching it.

Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan, Secretary General Jim Breslin, and HSE chief executive, Paul Reid, appeared before the Oireachtas special committee on Covid-19 and deftly spoke at length for four hours, without saying very much at all.