George Lee was an Economics Editor with RTE when the financial meltdown happened in 2008 and the economy fell off a cliff.
After a brief stint in the Dail, he moved back to RTE as Agricultural Editor and we saw a near national emergency with farmers having to beg for silage and hay in 2017 before a drought hit them hard in 2018.
Roll on a year and he moves from Agriculture to Environment and Science correspondent. He’s not in the job a wet week when we are hit with an unknown and new virus which could fuck up our lives and as one Doctor said could potentially have an effect on Ireland like the Spanish Flu, the Civil War and the 1929 financial crash altogether…