Irish Examiner view: Systems that were tightly strung are now broken

Delays at airport is emblematic of a wider issue in the labour market

Long queues to clear security are expected to worsen in the lead-up to Easter.

Covid’s long tail was obviously always going to have an impact on trade, transport, and travel as well as public health. At the current rate of progress, it may be five years before service levels approach anything like those which existed before 2020. Strange as it may have seemed then, we may look back fondly on that period as gilded days.

The concept of air travel as a pleasurable experience and “part of the holiday” disappeared around the time of shoe bomber Richard Reid in 2001, and the transatlantic liquids terror plot of 2006 ensured that it never returned.