North America, just like the rest of the world, has been severely affected by the outbreak of Covid-19. It is an ever-evolving situation across the continent. There are work-from-home requirements in place in the majority of US and Canadian jurisdictions. Travel is heavily restricted, there is some disruption to supply chains and firms are busily...
You know you are in totally new economic territory when it becomes apparent that nobody has a clue what is going to happen next with the coronavirus lockdown. 'It will be a V-shaped recovery' said most economic commentators about a month ago. 'It will be the biggest economic fall since the Great Depression' (IMF). 'It...
It is undoubtedly true that there is a new civil war going on in America, a war which is basically the same as their old civil war - except this time the South is winning.
I've been having these dreams. Covid dreams. Sorry, have I mentioned them before? I'm on the road. Travelling. Familiar faces. Strange events. In the latest - Tuesday's to be precise - I'm at home and it's late and the doorbell rings. A man clad from head-to-toe in a beekeeper's suit, or what's now called PPE,...
The loneliness of the coronavirus patient is what most strikes David Hall. On their journey through this cruelly isolating disease, Covid-19 patients travel solo. There are no family members seeing them off when he collects them in his ambulance, none travelling in the back on their way to hospital and no one to receive them...
If you're going to be left stranded in Ireland after your block-buster movie goes into hiatus, you can't do much better than an €8m pad on Dalkey's ultra-exclusive Sorrento Road.
With the sun splitting Dublin's stones for most of last week, Máire Ní Mhaolie, co-owner of the temporarily closed 57 The Headline Bar, was cursing her luck. It would be an ideal time for serving her thirsty customers some refreshing Aperol Spritz.
