Irish Examiner View: Let’s not risk a new veto on home visits

It is not hard to imagine that health officials might have been bewildered by the queues from early morning yesterday outside Penneys stores.

Queues this morning outside Penneys in Limerick. Picture: Press 22

It is not hard to imagine that health officials, advisers, and especially those working at the coalface of the pandemic might have been bewildered by the queues from early morning yesterday outside Penneys stores.

They might remember their seven colleagues who died because of Covid-19 as they try to figure out what was so necessary, so urgent that social distancing obligations were spectacularly cast aside so people could buy T-shirts, shorts, and summer clothes.