Aoife Moore: How a week that promised clarity turned to calamity

Ministers were called on to fight so many political fires this week, it's a pity the fire services aren't on the priority vaccine rollout list

Labour leader Alan Kelly was taken aback at the minister's cool attitude to a missing 140,000 vaccines, saying they could 'do the whole of the county of Limerick'. Illustration: Harry Burton

With lockdown going nowhere in a hurry, figures stubbornly around 600 new cases a day, and all the Government's eggs snugly in the one basket of vaccine rollout, a week that promised clarity soon turned to calamity.

Road to nowhere