Will we ever get our old lives back? Will our jobs, our homes and the places where we live ever be the same again? What is there for us and our children to look forward to?
At a barbecue recently everyone did the nervy little dance of 'how do we greet each other? Do we kiss? Do we hug? Do the elbow thing?' Mostly, we did the elbow thing. Sometimes we just looked, with affection, at each other.
Four private nursing homes had to wait almost four weeks to get the results of Covid-19 tests for residents during the height of the pandemic.
Lockdown was safe; we knew what to do - no unnecessary journeys, no socialising, stay home. There was a sameness to it; we had to abide by the same rules and we were all pretty much in the same boat. But now that we are coming back to real life, many people dread this more...
US president Donald Trump's intervention into a criminal case connected to his own conduct drew fierce rebukes yesterday from Democrats and a few lonely Republicans, with calls for investigations and legislation.
The Department of Health has abandoned plans to provide regularly updated figures on the spread of Covid-19 across electoral areas of Ireland, claiming there are now too few cases to publish the details.
If you can smell someone else's perfume or aftershave, you're too close to them. If you're near someone and they are speaking loudly because the music is loud, or even if there's no music (how we Irish love to shout after a few drinks), you're in danger of becoming infected. If someone puts their arm...
