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‘It should have been mandatory from the start’: Ireland says people should wear masks in shops to stop COVID-19 – but why did it take so long?

DUBLIN – Ireland is a nation of saints, scientists and the status quo. This small island in the northwestern periphery of Europe is ruled by two old enemies: the right-wing Republican Fianna Fáil party and the fellow Christian-Democratic Fine Gael, which since independence in 1922 on opposite sides of ‘ …

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