The return of the St Patrick’s Day festival: ‘People have an appetite for it that I’ve never seen before’
After a two-year absence due to Covid-19, the big event is back – and its director of strategy Aileen Galvin promises that this year’s programme is one of its most ambitious efforts to date
When did the Covid-19 crisis truly begin for you? For some of us, it was March 11, 2020, the day that the World Health Organisation officially declared Covid-19 a pandemic. For others, it was the following day, when Leo Varadkar, the then Taoiseach, told us from a podium in Washington that he needed to speak to us about the looming threat of the virus.
For Aileen Galvin, director of public engagement and strategy at the ...
