Irish Examiner View: Easier call may have hard results

As the momentum to ease restrictions gathers pace, we are confronted with a yin or yang choice, and it is hard to remember a decision where the stakes were so high.

In a normal year, some of the more organised among us might have, last weekend, gone to the garden shed and renewed our acquaintance with that high altar of summertime conviviality, the barbecue.

The objective would have been to check if this 21st century campfire could be used to cook for family and friends next weekend, the Whit, or, if you are of a secular bent, the June bank holiday weekend.