Failure of imagination is the biggest weakness of Ireland’s policymakers.  Policymakers use heuristics to process all the information coming at them and the easiest way to think about the future is to take the past, and project forward. Most of the time, this is not a bad rule of thumb. But it has its limitations.  In the 2010s, for example, this method would have meant you would not have predicted a global pandemic. And now, if anything, the opposite is the case: people see potential pandemics everywhere. Outbreaks of bubonic plague and monkeypox over the last year have garnered far…

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