For a brief few hours this weekend, it looked as if our prospects, like the clocks, had changed to usher in sunnier days. The Sunday Times reported that Britain might offer 3.7m badly-needed Covid-19 vaccines to the Republic, almost half the 8m vaccines exported to Britain from the EU in February. We were, almost inevitably, to be hoisted on that uncomfortable cleft stick in the deteriorating relationships between Britain and the European Union. Culture secretary Oliver Dowden said the timetable was on track and that it was “essential” to provide second doses without mixing vaccines. That this is even being discussed suggests that the plan to send 3.7m vaccines here is pandemic boosterism at its most cynical.

Source: Irish Examiner March 29, 2021 07:18 UTC