Irish Examiner view: Property market has become a loaded dice

Public needs and rights regarded as secondary to commercial ambitions

Even as the Government extends lockdown to at least March 5 and works to better control travellers to try to contain Covid-19, it is possible to see the fight against the virus as a conflict between sustaining economic norms and public well-being. 

If airports could be closed without destroying struggling but vital airlines, that defence would be in place.