Irish Examiner view: The need to 'take a break' from doomscrolling

Motto will live on amid what appears at times to be unflinchingly negative news

Two fishermen relax on shreelane lake outside Leap, Co Cork, Ireland. Sometimes we need to take a break from all the negative news. Picture: David Creedon

‘I can’t watch it anymore’, is becoming a familiar refrain in households fed up of the endless images of war and Covid-19.

As the pandemic rears its ugly head once more and war in Ukraine beams devastating images onto our phones and televisions each evening, it is understandable that people would look to switch off.