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  • A State of Emergency

  • The Story of Ireland’s Covid Crisis
  • By: Richard Chambers
  • Narrated by: Richard Chambers
  • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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The incendiary untold story of Ireland’s response to the most significant public health emergency of the past century, woven from a wealth of original research and dozens of interviews with ministers, politicians, public health experts, essential workers and ordinary people on whom the crisis exacted a personal toll.

Ranging from the halls of government buildings, where a new cabinet riven by personal acrimony found itself beset by a series of unprecedented crises, to the frontlines of the containment effort itself, where medical practitioners and the communities they serve were pushed to breaking point, A State of Emergency is a landmark work of investigative journalism and the defining account of an extraordinary time in Irish history.
©2021 Richard Chambers (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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"Absolutely riveting." (Marian Keyes)

"The last thing I thought I would want to read at the end of 2021 was a book about Covid-19...I was wrong. At times it reads like a thriller with larger-than-life characters we all think we know, who are all just human in the end." (Rick O’Shea)

"An absolutely fascinating read." (Claire Byrne)

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I flew through this book. Narration was easy to listen to. Bought it after Stephen Donnelly said he wouldn't be reading it as that obviously meant it'd be good. Didn't disappoint. Scathing of Donnelly's role. Extremely sad at times with a real lump in the throat at multiple points. Overall I felt it was very good without being great but maybe I'm just saturated with covid news.

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