Irish Examiner view: Ireland's Covid inquiry is coming. But then, so is Christmas

Ireland has plenty of legitimate criticisms to make about our next door neighbours — but we really should emulate Britain's prompt and revealing inquiry into its handling of covid-19 

A masked-up woman strides past a mural of a frontline worker in Dublin in March 2022, ahead of a day of commemoration for those who lost their lives to covid. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA 

In the spirit of kumbaya accompanying the political reset with our near neighbours, there are still many adjectives which can be selected to reflect varying views of their national characteristics.

They have abounded in the past decade and readers will have their own favourites — perfidious, delusional, selfish, nationalistic, prejudiced, corrupt, reckless, dysfunctional — to revisit just a smattering from the many miles of commentary applied to the British by the Irish print, broadcast, and social media over 10 years.