Irish Examiner view: Deaths remind us of our own mortality

From the perpetual grief of death in Gaza to the tragedies visited upon families closer to home, each loss reminds us of the tenuous grasp we have on dear life

there was a horrifying account this week of the death of Munster rugby coach Greig Oliver. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Confected news has been displaced this week by the awfulness of human tragedy. In Gaza, that perpetual source of grief afflicting the conscience of the world, people drowned while retrieving aid packages that had fallen into the Mediterranean.

In Baltimore, Maryland, a 1,000ft-long container ship lost power and drifted into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, collapsing it like it was matchwood.