Irish Examiner view: Hard decisions ahead on vaccine refuseniks

Legislation weakens our strongest response to the pandemic — ongoing community solidarity

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar.

As Afghanistan is discovering, winning the peace can exact a higher toll than winning the war. The withdrawal of America has allowed the Taliban retake swathes of that battered country and begin to roll it back to about 1750. 

The prospect of fundamentalists’ retribution is so real that a coalition of media interests has appealed to Downing Street to expand its refugee visa programme for Afghans, to include people who have worked for international media over the past 20 years.