THE extremely good weather of last weekend and earlier this week may have abated temporarily, but there was the beginning of a blue sky with a different hue yesterday with the Irish Government announcement of an earlier than expected ease in restrictions.

Not every sector has benefited from the new changes, though most people will feel some effect of the moves. This steady rather than radical approach will hopefully see us benefit in the long term. Having travelled the journey we have been on for so long, it would be reckless to do anything now that would jeopardise the sacrifices everyone has made.