God, I do like people who speak sense, plain and simple, so it was a pleasure to listen to Professor Jack Lambert on Drivetime on Thursday ramming home the fact that wearing masks will stop the spread of the virus.
Now to a matter that has been exercising my mind of late – Race. A few years ago we had dinner in Boston with friends, a mixed race couple, and I was very shocked to hear that they felt frightened sometimes when they were out and about because they were a mixed couple. I have an awful feeling such behaviour is a daily occurrence somewhere in our Republic. This demeans us all and it is dangerous.
Then in 1970 I went to Harvard. Somehow the America of then was different to Trump’s America where racial tensions have boiled to the surface - an America where a policeman shot Jacob Blake, a 23-year-old black man seven times in the back. Every day we'll send you a roundup e-mail of all the latest news. Local Irish news, UK and international news, local and national Sport and entertainment news , all in one handy e-mail.