“If you had told me two years ago that we would live in a country where it was illegal to leave or enter the State for non-essential reasons, that one could not have visitors to one’s house, or could not meet outside with more than 15 people, I would have thought you were absolutely bonkers. What has happened in the past year or two is unprecedented. We overuse that term, but what has happened in the past year really is unprecedented.”
Those are the words of then-Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, who was speaking in the middle of the Covid-19 lockdown in 2021.
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