Recently, myself and my daughter have started to help put mother and baby packs together for the women who contact Gianna Care when faced with an unplanned pregnancy. Everything you could possibly think of and more is included in the maternity bag that volunteers provide to women as part of the Gianna Care service. I’m a single […]
Last week, Taoiseach Michael Martin said he expects Ireland to be living with coronavirus restrictions until late 2021 or early 2022. Deep breaths everyone, remember it’s all only temporary… but let’s backtrack a few months, shall we? Back in March, what seems to have been another life, we were put on lockdown for two weeks. Nobody […]
Since March of this year, or perhaps earlier, it’s safe to say that opinions greatly differ with regard to all things related to Covid19. However, in the midst of much disagreement and what has become a very contentious subject where one can hardly express an opinion that goes against the WHO or RTE without being […]
For months now, we have been living under the fog of a pandemic that seems to stick worse than chewing gum in curly hair. We have seen livelihoods lost through business closures that simply cannot afford to reopen, couples forced to stay apart due to the ever changing safety guidelines of air travel, and the […]
Like many people the world over, lockdown has been an incredibly trying time for most of us and we aren’t out of the woods yet. Only a few short months ago, we were told by many on social media that all we had to do was stay at home and save lives. We weren’t being […]
I will be the first one to hold up my hands and say I wanted a lockdown too. I used the #stayathome #staysafe #quaranteam hashtags that began floating around only a number of weeks ago. I bombarded friends of mine with messages regarding staying home and staying safe. I panic bought Vitamin C and other […]
I remember reading headlines not too long ago, around the beginning of this year, that some virus had broken out in China and they were in the process of building a hospital to deal with the outbreak, and they built that hospital in three days! I remember being in awe at the thoughts of it, […]