Fighting a pandemic is a bit like fighting a war. There are different fronts where battles need to be waged. For ordinary people, the battle plan is clear (I hope) and composed of three key things.
All secondary students should have been starting their Easter holidays this Friday. A time for a bit of freedom, with Leaving Cert students in particular using it as a time for a more relaxed study regime. Instead, we are caught in the half light, not knowing whether school will resume at all or maybe on...
Last week saw a quiet death. A song-thrush taken by the cat died, warm in its rescue-box, in a dawn it saw but did not announce.
The Government and institutions of the State are to be commended on their response to the economic fallout of the Covid-19 crisis. Time-limited mortgage forbearance, rent freezes, deferred tax payments and the provision of financial support to workers are essential measures. The speed at which Government departments have been refocused to ensure these supports are...
Ian Morey ends his 12-hour day by stripping off his clothes at the side door of his home. He puts them in the bag his girlfriend will have left out for him. He dashes inside to the shower for a thorough soaping, dons clean clothes and gloves, retrieves the bag from outside and shoves its...
We do not normally fly the Italian flag from the front of our house. However, for the last month, during what has been a traumatic moment for Italy, a huge Italian tricolour has danced about in the March tramontana winds.
Over the past decade, nothing has defined us more than the cult of individualism. From the little to the large, it infects every aspect of our lives. Headphones cancel out the person next to us on our commute, many neighbours barely know each other's names, and screen time has replaced connection within our shared beds...
