Sinn Féin ministers had ‘one eye towards’ Dublin over Covid schools closure – Peter Weir
Sinn Féin ministers acted with “one eye towards” Dublin when considering whether schools in Northern Ireland should close in the early months of the Covid pandemic, Lord Peter Weir has said.A barrister for the UK Covid-19 Inquiry asked the former DUP education minister how “well served children in Northern Ireland were” when the decision over whether to close schools had become “a political and divisive issue”.