Irish Examiner view: Please explain vaccine threat

Teachers in conference

Teacher unions have primed their members to consider strike action over revised Covid-19 vaccine priorities.

It is surprising that an inventive bookmaker has not offered, as a kind of post-Cheltenham methadone, its customers an opportunity to bet on which issue teachers might threaten to strike over as their Easter conference season begins. As unquenchable as Mayo’s All-Ireland dreams, that annual threat, like Mayo’s longing, is a part of our national furniture. The threats, like Mayo challenges, may not have the sting those who offer them imagine.