If I did this book in two years time after it was all over, so I can do the whole,

here's exactly how it all happened from start to finish.

Well, then people sanitise their own accounts.

That's very obvious.

That will happen.

That people will be like, ah, was that?

Was my experience with ex-person that bad?

Ah, no, I think he's alright, you know. Or the people as well, once we're all through this, that we might go, I don't want to

go back there again, I don't want to talk about COVID.

Again, I want to mentally close the chapter on that, which is completely understandable.

I think that a lot of people will do that.

So I think it now is the time to sort of get out there, sort of have a look at how this was managed in its early stages, how it affected people right across this country, how it affected our frontline healthcare

workers, and really do this before we start to do the real unpacking and putting it away

really, you know? So I think that's kind of the real justification to it, and people seem

to have gotten that. Richard Chambers has written a one-of-a-kind book dedicated to the Irish healthcare workers

who saved countless lives and the memory of those who are no longer with us.

It's called State of Emergency, the story of Ireland's COVID crisis.

And it really is a story that is continuing to be told even this week as government officials back home started the process

of reeling back in the lifting of restrictions announced just last month. I can tell you,

it's a massively frustrating time for people at home and abroad. And can we really have perspective on

something we're living through in the moment? Well, Richard doesn't just contend that we can.

He maintains we have to. This book has caused a bit of a stir since Stephen Donnelly went on TV

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