The bill for cleaning and provision of hand sanitisers in schools to prevent the spread of Covid-19 would run to a massive €24m for the period between September and Christmas.
Children's summer camps with a difference may be on the horizon after all despite the limitations of the Covid-19 pandemic. But many parents are questioning how public health experts can draw up guidelines to permit some organised play and leisure activities for children - even though schools have had to remain closed.
In my final speech as Hong Kong's governor on June 30, 1997, a few hours before I left the city on Britain's royal yacht, I remarked that: "Now, Hong Kong people are to run Hong Kong. That is the promise. And that is the unshakable destiny."
The US has become the first country whose coronavirus death toll has passed 100,000, a grim milestone that exceeded some of Donald Trump's early estimates and triggered a wave of condolences from political leaders.
Donald Trump has escalated his war on social media companies, signing an executive order challenging the liability protections that have served as a bedrock for unfettered speech on the internet.
China's parliament approved a decision yesterday to go forward with national security legislation for Hong Kong that democracy activists in the city and Western countries fear could erode its freedoms and jeopardise its role as a global financial hub.
Even down the phone line it is possible to hear the birds chirping in the back garden of Jason Quigley's home in Ballybofey, which he shares with his partner April and her daughter Sierra.
