"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
I see none of you are raising your hands in horror at Trump, your master's puppet-master, rejecting Cuba's offers of assistance and The Morning Star appears to be the only British paper to carry the story - only learned about it because a singer friend put it up on Facebook
I'd have thought that would have sickened all decent people - it is lethal gamesmanship politics and there is a blanket of silence surrounding it
Dangerous times
Jim Carroll