President Michael D Higgins has urged people to do their "almighty best" and redouble their efforts to avoid infection in a special message released six months after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic.
In this evening's address, the President said defeating the virus requires "positive commitments from us all". We should encourage each other to envisage the "light that will surely come from all of our efforts when renewed and redoubled".
He said the fundamental values of solidarity, care, compassion and kindness would help us follow the guidelines and protect others in an "act of good citizenship". "I believe that we must now, with our schools reopened, muster a fresh determination to give our efforts, as the late John B Keane might put it,