The Irish Examiner View: A chance to consider the new ‘normal’

Change is, we are assured, the only constant in our lives. The pace of that change may accelerate at one time or another. It meanders gently at other times. Occasionally, maybe once or twice in a lifetime, we have to deal with change on the tremendous scale we face today.

Some of today’s changes will be permanent. Some versions of those changes - dare they be described as peacetime versions - will become permanent too. Some restrictions will pass in time though when that welcome day might arrive remains anyone’’s guess.