Shauna Bowers: We were all in it together, but new policy shows that's no longer the case

Younger people, among the cohort worst hit by the economic impact of the pandemic and with the longest wait for vaccines, feel left out of the conversation once again

Signs displaying messages of "All in this together" at the outset of the pandemic. File Image.

“We are all in this together,” then-Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said during his unprecedented speech on March 17, 2020, at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A month later, when launching the ‘In This Together’ campaign, Mr Varadkar reiterated that message: “We’re in this together and we will come out of it together too.”