A State of Emergency: Chambers’ coruscating chronicle of Covid is not for the faint-hearted

The Virgin Media News correspondent’s analysis of the coronavirus crisis in Ireland is comprehensive but disquieting

Richard Chambers: the news correspondent for Virgin Media has tracked and recorded the trauma, desolation and death that swept this country in the pandemic’s wake. Picture: Marc O’Sullivan

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A State of Emergency: The Story of Ireland’s Covid Crisis

By Richard Chambers

HarperCollins Ireland, €17.50

I would like to start my review by warning potential readers to be of stout mind and heart when they pick up this book, a work that would once have seemed the stuff of science fiction, but is sadly an accurate account of the trauma, desolation and death which has swept this country in the wake of the ...