Susan O’Keeffe: This has been a year of profound change, and 2022 will be no different

Covid-19 and climate change have dominated the news all over the world in 2021, while at home the rise of Sinn Féin has brought about an increased debate about a united Ireland

And there went 2021, staggering off the calendar, and it couldn’t go fast enough. From beginning to end, it’s been a battle with an invisible enemy, that has cost more money than any one event in the history of mankind.

Hardly the kind of record that people would have wished for or will want to look back on either. It’s an instinctive and intuitive response to record everything that we do, even if it is ...