Irish Examiner view: Reluctance to avail of vaccine bizarre and dangerous

The survey found that 60% of men said they would take a vaccine and only half of the women asked said they would use one.

Back in the day, when a rural parish priest could be anything from a social worker, a matchmaker or a greyhound trainer - many were two of those, some all three - some of them reacted to the advances of today's world dismissively: "When people stop believing in God, they will believe in anything."  

Time, disconcertingly, has proved them right.