Daniel McConnell: Every vaccine delay means an extra week of business and school closures 

While there may be a reluctant acceptance to stomach the latest and hardest lockdown, the obvious question which needs to be asked is – where is the vaccine and why are we so slow in rolling it out?

Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan briefing the media on Wednesday following a Cabinet meeting at Government Buildings, Dublin. Picture: Julien Behal Photography

While we knew what was coming, the news when it came was brutal.

Three weeks of a full-scale national lockdown, the third escalation of restrictions in as many weeks.