Frightened cleaners are refusing to redeploy to hospitals and nursing homes, leading to fears of a shortage of cleaning staff at healthcare facilities.
Ann O'Rourke died alone in a nursing home, social distancing restrictions a cruel and necessary burden on her and her family. Days later, her son Ciaran poured his grief across the airwaves.
Irish billionaires who were in Ireland the day the lockdown came into place will get a free pass to stay here for as long as it lasts.
Benjamin Franklin famously quipped that there are only two certainties in life - death and taxes. It's beginning to look as if the Department of Education is determined to add the Leaving Cert to the short list of things that can't be avoided.
After a few short weeks of this pandemic, it's hard to imagine life will return to normal. For many that is scary. It is hard to grasp. Our mental wellbeing depends largely on the 'status quo', none of us do 'change' well.
The property market may be in what one commentator calls 'a short-lived Ice Age', but there is widespread confidence that as the threat of Covid-19 recedes, construction will pick up, and prices will rally, and buying and selling will continue more or less where they left off.
Last week in lockdown, my household got some pets. Some stayed with us a lockdown length of time, which is short. In that case, they were born out of the text that arrived via one of my WhatsApp groups, promising hours of fun for the children as they brought 3D animals into our home via...
