Irish Examiner View: Island best with a single strategy

So coronavirus has done what generations of ardent feminists failed to achieve. The Rose of Tralee Festival has been, for the first time in its 61-year history, postponed. It was hoped to stage an autumn festival but it proved impossible to stage selection events around the world because of social distancing.

As pandemic setbacks go, this may be one of the more surmountable ones but it is nevertheless an indication of how blind the epidemic is. It is callously indifferent to its consequences, who it might infect or what tradition, grand or trivial, it might disrupt. Or even where it might strike. It is indifferent to borders, especially borders between jurisdictions where different preventative strategies are in place.