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County rivalry takes new form in Covid figures table

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County rivalry is part of life in Ireland - we slag each other about where we come from, and really get going when it comes to hurling and football.

Generally, though, it's all a bit of craic. Now however, there’s a new kind of inter-county rivalry or envy perhaps, based on the ranking of counties in the daily list of Covid cases which many of us have become addicted to.

We check to see how the county we live in is doing, followed by the counties where we have relations and friends, and we compare them to other counties.

The issue of county comparisons has been stirred up a bit recently by a number of TDs who have been suggesting that Covid-19 restrictions should be eased on a county-by-county basis, with those showing a low 14-day

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