Irish government's authority frays amid fears of new Covid wave
by Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5G3NK)
U-turns, infighting and vaccine blunders cast sense of disarray over Dublin's pandemic response
When Ireland's taoiseach, Micheal Martin, gave his latest Covid-19 address earlier this week there was none of the poetry or literary allusions that have peppered previous speeches.
Sensing the nation was fed up and in no mood for high-brow quotes, Martin appealed for patience on what he termed the final stretch of a terrible journey. A lot has been asked of everyone ... it has been, and continues to be, exceptionally difficult."
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