Public Mass is still banned in Ireland.
Irish journalists are watching webcams and doing headcounts to see if there is even one extra person attending the funerals of loved ones and reporting on them.
Yet former prolifer Simon Coveney, who ended up voting pro abortion, has been allowed to travel to sunny Turkey for a taxpayer funded junket.
The Jesuit educated former Tanaiste touched down in Ankara on Wednesday, soaking up the warmer weather on a pointless excursion of shaking hands and saying hello to random politicians as part of an alleged ‘humanitarian’ trip. There was no evidence of humanitarian work in the photographs, unless one counts making tea as humanitarian.
Churches should reopen as soon as possible, no questions asked as a result of this.
If it’s safe enough for Coveney to travel to Turkey for no reason, and to have photographs taken so that you can see him surrounded by dozens of people in close proximity, it’s safe enough for Mass to be opened to the public.