Our pandemic response cost everyone on this island so very much – that’s why need an inquiry with teeth into what went wrong

I want to know why draconian rules lingered, by all accounts, without question when the consequences, both human and economic were so devastating. When women gave birth alone and the sick died alone. Stock image

Lorraine Courtney

It’s been interesting watching reaction to Matt Hancock on I’m a Celebrity from here in Ireland. His mere presence in the jungle left Boy George in tears. “I don’t want to be sitting here, like, I’m having fun with him,” he said to a group of likeminded celebrities.

Boy George explained that his mother, (who is happily still alive), caught Covid and was unable to see her son during lockdown. Hence his contempt for the UK’s former health secretary, exposed for restricting Britons as he was canoodling his aide during office hours.