While walking in a leafy suburb of Cork yesterday I came across a group of teenagers playing football in a locked outdoor football 5-a-side area. To their credit they appeared to be enjoying themselves. I stopped counting them when I reached 150. None was social distancing and none wore a face mask. A co-walker suggested they were "Leaving Certs" enjoying a break from their studies towards Easter. To be fair to the fairer sex there wasn't a female amongst them.
Then watching the Six O'Clock News last evening and while Mr McGrath was being interviewed (just before attending a government restrictions raising meeting) in the background a group of young ladies were walking together unmasked and not socially distancing. I bet they were "Leaving Certs" too.
The Bottom Line here is that the Covid Death Rate in Ireland is higher in the first twelve weeks of 2021 than it was in all of 2020. I hope the government knows what it is doing. We will find out later today.