Irish Examiner View: Beating the pandemic - Be resolute, stay at home this weekend

How we behave over the coming days will reveal more about what we are really like, what values we really hold dear, than any moment since Pope John Paul II visited Ireland in 1979.

That visit was planned as a catalyst to rejuvenate a waning Catholic church but it was, as history, empty churches, and parishes without priests confirm, a dramatic swansong.