Irish Examiner view: Cry freedom  — just say it softly

Covid restrictions set to unwind but we still need to tread cautiously 

Chief medical officer Tony Holohan. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

By any yardstick the manner in which citizens of Ireland have responded to the burden of the regulations imposed to combat the transmission of Covid-19 has been exemplary.

Ireland has implemented one of the most rigorous regimes among democratic nations while having the good sense to recognise that zero Covid, as Australia and New Zealand have been discovering, is unattainable.