Letters to the Editor: Nphet true to its remit — take note Paul Hosford

The Christmas lights on Oliver Plunkett Street set against the beautiful late afternoon sky over Cork on New Year's Eve, 2020. The government made a disastrous decision to open things up for a feelgood Christmas splurge, according to reader Jim Cosgrove. Picture Denis Minihane.

Paul Hosford’s masterclass in ambivalence (‘Deviating from Nphet’s advice...’ Irish Examiner, Opinion, December 31) mercurially manages to marry salient conjecture and shallow camouflage in a creative alchemy of understatement, contradiction, and ‘par-truths’.

He attempts, at once, to exonerate both Nphet and Government from the inevitable denouement of the disastrous decision to open things up for a feelgood Christmas splurge, despite the obvious well-flagged risk and the majority of citizens against the relaxation of restrictions, as per several surveys.