Matt Cooper: The coalition of the unwilling fumbles its messaging yet again

It looks doubtful whether the majority of the public will have the patience for another nine weeks of this Covid-19 confinement

David Drumm, the former Anglo Irish Bank executive, might find it hard to get a job, but he still has a €4.4 million pension pot PIc: PA

Last Thursday evening, I tweeted how Eamon Ryan, the Green Party leader, in an interview I had just conducted on the Tonight Show, refused to be drawn on a date for the beginning of the lifting of Level 5 restrictions.

At much the same time as I was pressing Ryan on the likelihood that it would most likely be the May bank holiday weekend, Taoiseach Micheál Martin was indicating to the Irish Daily Mirror that ...