Irish Examiner view: Planning is key to sustaining solidarity in fighting pandemic

If versions of Covid-19 will be among us indefinitely we will have to find a way of living with it that recognises but minimises threat

More than 22,000 fans were in the National Arena in Bucharest for the Euro 2020 soccer championship round of 16 match between France and Switzerland on Monday. Picture: Robert Ghement/Pool via AP

It can hardly have escaped the attention of those at Monday night’s Cabinet sub-committee meeting that just as they began to consider harrowing Covid predictions that a great number of their peers were enthralled by France and Switzerland’s European Championship thriller from Bucharest, just over 3,000km from where they sat. 

The game, and the crowds at it, certainly did not escape the attention of those whose hopes of a return to face-to-face business were long-fingered yet again yesterday afternoon.