Irish Examiner View: Far too early to call time on closed pubs

Minister for Health Simon Harris echoed that when he said he could not see how people could return to “packed pubs” while the virus was still in the community and in the absence of a vaccine.

One of the still-stinging catchcries from our last economic implosion is that the banks at the root of the catastrophe were too big to be allowed fail.

Another with renewed relevance, one that underlines what too big to fail really means, is that that profits were privatised but losses were socialised.