It was not your typical Friday night in the pubs of Dublin.
This week, as foodies scramble to realign their offerings with the 'new normal', I speak to another talented bunch, about how they and their businesses are coping with the ongoing global crisis.
So, are we out of the woods yet? With many of the restrictions lifted over the past couple of months, it is timely to gauge how the public perceives where we are on our Covid-19 journey, and how we feel about our progress.
When Johnny Depp decided to take his ongoing libel case against News Group Newspapers it was, presumably, a considered decision. As he has said, it wasn't about money, it was about vindication and proving that The Sun was incorrect and libellous in calling him a "wife beater".
Scanning through leaked flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein's private jet between 2001 and 2006, an unfamiliar name crops up time and again - 350 times, to be precise. The name is Sarah Kellen.
Michel Barnier has mocked a Tory MP's protests about the EU's aims for a post-Brexit trade deal - pointing out that the MP actually voted for the measures himself.
In 2017, psychologist Jean M Twenge decided to look at the first generation who had never known life without a smartphone. She coined the term 'iGen' for the group, born between 1995 and 2012, who lived most of their lives online.
