The Delta variant may yet have other ideas, but if the weeks radio is anything to go by, blanket coverage of the pandemic seems to be gradually giving way to all those other issues that used to fill the airwaves. Such a scenario may be difficult to imagine for listeners who have developed Stockholm syndrome with Covid news, but Newstalk Breakfast (weekdays) provides a glimpse of what could be.
Interviewed by Shane Coleman on Wednesdays programme, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly sounds more rattled by questions about the ongoing National Maternity Hospital fiasco than he does when quizzed on the new strain of virus. Given the torrid time the Minister has endured over his handling of the lockdown (not to mention the inexcusable personal threats he has faced), this is quite an achievement.