News media review

Photo – Misprint of the Century ?
Author and speaker, Shane Paul O’Doherty, here examines the activities of the IRA before, during and after what is known as “the Irish peace process”
[[] https://irishpeaceprocess.blog/ ]

Coronavirus: Pressure on Finance Minister Conor Murphy after failure over order for vital health worker equipment
Belfast Telegraph
[] https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-pressure-on-finance-minister-conor-murphy-after-failure-over-order-for-vital-health-worker-equipment-39101824.html
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Sweden refused to impose a lockdown to tackle coronavirus. Now its scientists believe the end may be in sight
The Times and The Sunday Times
In a wine bar by the Nissan river in western Sweden, Susanne Andersson and her friend Canita Dagard were starting Friday night with a glass of champagne. It was cocktail hour, and across the town of Halmstad, bars and restaurants, though quieter than usual, were starting to fill with prosperous patrons heading out for seafood or sushi. Andersson, 47, a glossy-haired businesswoman, was going on to the cinema with her husband. “I’m not worried,” she said. “We’re not having big parties or anything,
[ https://apple.news/AwpwycyCjQZeURXWR5xsCJQ ]

We don’t need ‘gotcha’ journalism now
UnHerd
Comment on commentators behaviour regarding the coronavirus crisis. Not written by a fan of Peston…
[[] https://unherd.com/2020/04/we-dont-need-gotcha-journalism-now/ ]

The data will show whether Government overreacted to the coronavirus outbreak
Daily Telegraph
[ http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/184/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/184/pub/184/page/22/article/30484 ]

We bowed to Beijing but Taipei had the answer to the coronavirus
The Sunday Times – David Quin
[[] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/david-quinn-we-bowed-to-beijing-but-taipei-had-the-answer-to-the-coronavirus-gsdc5lrzx ]

This isn’t the first time our churches have been closed during Holy Week
Daily Telegraph
[ http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/184/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/184/pub/184/page/63/article/30346 ]

I was angry at God when my grandson died aged just 12 days. I said then, if the God I knew and ...
Belfast Telegraph
Rev Carmen Hayes is rector of the Church of Ireland parishes of Errigal and Desertoghill in Garvagh, Co Londonderry. She has been married to Alwyn …
[[] https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/rev-carmen-hayes-i-was-angry-at-god-when-my-grandson-died-aged-just-12-days-i-said-then-if-the-god-i-knew-and-loved-wasnt-big-enough-to-take-my-anger-then-he-wasnt-the-god-that-i-believed-he-was-39101462.html ]

Coverage of choral scholars at Wells Cathedral, all from the same household, who have been singing from their garden to lift the spirits of neighbours.
Independent
[ https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/coronavirus-choir-singers-street-somerset-viral-video-a9441841.html ]

Bishop Stephen Cottrell: ‘A first for Christendom: Holy Week without church’
The Spectator
[ https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-first-for-christendom-holy-week-without-church ]