The Irish Examiner View: Let us show we are equal to the task

President Michael D Higgins spoke for everyone yesterday when, via local radio stations, he acknowledged the growing debt we owe to thousands of frontline workers battling the pandemic. In a bespoke address, President Higgins said that this virus will pass and when it does we can celebrate that by supporting what is local.

The simplicity of that message, especially the certainty that the crisis will eventually pass, may seem underwhelming but it is far from that — irrespective of who offers it. That it came at a moment of unrelenting challenge made it all the more valuable.