Sixteen-year-old Harold Paulino, a Fifth Year student at Clonakilty Community College, is trying to remain positive that Covid will be dealt with by Christmas next year. “Hopefully there is a vaccine by then,” he says optimistically. “I’m hoping that the virus won’t be a problem by the time I am […]
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Ballinascarthy native and UL student Matthew Hurley plans on going to as many GAA matches as possible when life does return to some form of normality post-Covid. “What I’ve learned from Covid is that life is too short,” he says frankly. The 19-year-old sports enthusiast is in his first year […]
Teachers at St. Joseph’s Girls National School in Clonakilty share some of the highs and lows of ‘school in Covid times’ How has Covid impacted on the way you teach now? We have incorporated some online homework once a week since we returned to school – for example the children […]
Pádraig Ó hEachthairn, Principal at Gaelscoil Mhichíl Uí Choileáin in Clonakilty reflects on how the pandemic has affected school life. It would be very difficult to start any piece about the start of the current school year without first reflecting on the six months, which preceded it. Despite all the […]
With Christmas approaching and the current restrictions making life so difficult for so many, Rector of the Kilgariffe Union of Parishes, the Reverend Kingsley Sutton says we need to find and focus on what gives us hope. As the winter evenings draw deepening darkness around us, what helps to give […]
Upheaval, pause, stressful, loneliness, isolated, chilled, normal, surviving, mindful-paradox are some of the words used to describe life in the midst of the pandemic by people in five different European countries. As we are past the six-month mark of living with SARS-CoV-2, better known as Covid-19, freelance journalist Tania Presutti […]