Pete Lunn interview: ‘The system is full of people – and an awful lot of them are actually doing a spectacularly good job’

When Covid-19 struck, the head of the ESRI’s Behavioural Research Unit saw an opportunity to make a real contribution. After more than a year observing public behaviour, he now feels that Ireland is having a ‘good pandemic’

Pete Lunn, head of the ESRI’s Behavioural Research Unit: ‘What we know about these kinds of problems [such as the pandemic] is that people behave better and do the right thing more, the stronger the group identity that they have.’ Picture: Fergal Phillips