Irish Examiner View: Climate crisis denial makes us all cranks

Firefighters watch the Bear Fire approach in Oroville, California, last week. Picture: AP

Something short of 2,000 people marched through Dublin on Saturday afternoon protesting against health measures designed to contain the pandemic. Many carried the Irish flag, others carried banners urging us to “take off your mask”. 

Others still, offering a degree of certainty unusual even among the world's top scientists fighting the pandemic, assured us that C19 is no more than "a common cold”. Those protestors may not be the only people unsure about some C19 advice but the vast majority of people are, nevertheless, willing to hedge their bets by wearing a mask - hardly a Stalinesque denial of the liberties Connolly and Pearse died to secure for us all.