Top-level world athletics has been put in cold storage for the next eight months. So Irish athletes fretting over missed opportunities to achieve the qualifying standard for the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics can effectively pause their careers.
As I type, it's been just over one week of our extended restrictions. I'm trying to be as glass half-full about things as I can, especially as I have essentially won the pandemic Lotto - I am not working on the frontlines, I am still (touch wood) employed, my loved ones are still (touch all...
It came as no surprise that Australia's High Court quashed Cardinal George Pell's child sex abuse conviction.
Stuck at home with no visitors and not much else to do, a pair of pandas in Hong Kong finally decided to give mating a go after a decade of dodging the issue.
Back in 2009, I launched a web-based social initiative called 57 Million, which was aimed at sharing our experiences of simple acts of everyday human kindness and thereby encouraging others to follow suit. It's rather counter-intuitive key message was "to plan your acts of spontaneous kindness".
Business activity in Dublin has fallen to a seven-year low, as the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the economy.
New York City's death toll from the coronavirus has eclipsed the number of those killed at the World Trade Centre on 9/11.
