I think it was the depressing pictures of the first socially-distanced "gig" that did it. Or maybe the tightening of restrictions that confirmed we were drifting further away from the return of live music, instead of getting any closer.
Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has restored the official titles and military rank to his royal consort, according to a palace announcement, nearly a year after she was accused of being disloyal and disappeared from public view.
Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and prominent Kremlin critic, was deliberately poisoned with Novichok, the German government said yesterday.
It was driving, just a few days ago, through the Wicklow village where I used to live that prompted my particular Healy-Rae moment. And so it was that in that instant of what I can only identify as sadness, I felt myself, probably for the first time ever, in agreement with Michael himself.
It is arguable as to whether even the transmutation of water into wine at Cana provoked as much conversation as the reopening of our pubs.
Daredevil David Blaine performed his latest stunt yesterday - ascending nearly 30,000ft (9,144m) into the Arizona sky while hanging from a cluster of jumbo-sized balloons before parachuting safely back to earth.
A court in Spain has ruled that a palace once used as a summer residence by the dictator Francisco Franco must be handed over to the state, after his descendants fought to have it recognised as theirs.
