This week I have talked to a food retailer, an adventurous food producer, a hot chef and the owner of one of Ireland's best-loved hotels, who have all adapted to new ways of doing business.
The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who predicted, by analysing raw data, that Ireland's death and infection rate would "burn itself out" over the last two weeks is back with more good news.
The US death toll from Covid-19 has hit 100,000. A staggering figure. A figure larger than the American fatalities in the Vietnam, Korean and Iraq wars, combined. A figure that shouldn't become acceptable through met expectations or familiarity.
When Paddy Grant was given a Garda escort home from University Hospital Galway (UHG) last week, neighbours, friends and soccer players lined up to greet him in a state of wonder and disbelief.
The art of grafting has become second nature for jobbing actor, TV presenter and now home-cook Simon Delaney.
Watts 1965, Detroit 1967, LA 1992, Ferguson 2014 - and now Minneapolis 2020.
It has always been an intriguing story... and it was back in the news last week. Namely that Steve Bannon, the man who masterminded Donald Trump's unexpected US victory four years ago, is sponsoring an academy for "cultural warriors" in a 13th century former Carthusian monastery, 60km south of Rome.
