Emer McLysaght: Letting go of the lockdown
Getting back to ‘normal’ will be strange and, for some of us, downright scary – so let’s just take it one day at a time
It’s been a year since most of us did anything “normal”. Over a year, in fact. This time a year ago, Leo Varadkar was taoiseach and had just ordered the schools to close. We weren’t wearing masks yet, but we were washing the knuckles off ourselves and beginning the now reflexive practice of coughing into our elbows.
We felt a bit dopey doing it, but the government would not give over about it. You could ...