"Eight days is a lot less than two weeks."
The decision was made a week before as was the British one, and the schools prepared to close - as I said, two weeks
The decision to close the schools in Northern Ireland were even later, even though it was suspected that a teacher had died of the virus


Stop wriggling and nit-picking - your Government had lagged behind behind from the word go
So you want to calculate the "two weeks" by taking the time between Ireland making a decision, and England implementing a decision. Definitely 'creative accounting'. And I think it should be clear who is doing the 'wriggling'.