Irish Examiner view: Nphet's unpopular task was well delivered

The 38 members of the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) will see their role reduce next month

Dr Tony Holohan, the chief medical officer, at one of the many Covid-19 press briefings undertaken by Nphet over the past 18 months. File picture: Gareth Chaney

They don’t have the most elegant acronym in the world, but the 38 members of the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet), who will see their role reduce next month, can reflect that they were there when their country needed them, and they were not found wanting.

At times they must have thought that Sisyphus had it easy, such were the relentless waves of bad news and forests of data that confronted them daily.