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Aoibhín Garrihy has said that she has only seen her family “a handful of times” over the past year and that she is missing them dearly. The former Fair City actress is currently living in Ennis, Co Clare while her parents and sisters, Doireann and Ailbhe, are in Dublin. Aoibhín is unable to travel to her home county due to current Covid-19 health restrictions and has revealed that she is missing her family. Speaking on Ireland AM, she said: “I’m definitely missing the gang. They’re ...

Seham Hamu lost her husband, son and grand-daughter on the same night in 2016 when a missile struck their home in Douma, a rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital that saw some of the fiercest fighting of the civil war. Now, aged 74 and confined to a wheelchair because of a heart condition, she looks after her son’s four surviving children, a widowed daughter and a second daughter along with her husband and their children. Their plight is not unusual in a country where hundreds of thousands ...

The pandemic has shown that most of us have a hankering to meet friends in person. The pub and restaurant trades have had their bleakest years in living memory, but they should bounce back, at least in places where they were still in demand before the pandemic. The crisis has shown us conclusively that video-conferencing services such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams cannot replace the immediacy and intimacy of the person-to-person encounter. Nevertheless, the video apps have still become part of ou...

She said she was shocked this was the state of someone’s mind. “It was a really hateful thing for someone to say in response to such positive news. “When these comments get too hateful, I pull them down, I delete them. My mental health is too important to let anyone depress me.” Ms Adenuga mentors women and young people, bidding to “empower” them through the (YAMAL) Yemi Adenuga Mentorship and Leadership Program. Yet, despite this community work, she repeatedly has to block trolls. ...

"Its the cure for everything at the moment," says Aoibhín Garrihy.

Leo Varadkar. Photograph: John Allen “I try to get out for a run at least once a week, especially now that the gyms are closed. There are a few runs I can do within my 5km, and there’s a café I like to stop at where they do really good food. There are a few routes I like to do in my neighbourhood including the Royal Canal, some on paths, and some cross-country when the ground is dry or frozen. “I sometimes go with my partner, Matt, but if I’m on my own, I like to listen to music. I ha...

The family of a murdered Irish businessman have been subjected to a vile campaign of online abuse in the run-up to an appeal by his killers.

The images of 2020 will remain fresh in our minds long after this year has ended. Grief, loneliness, resilience and joy — Covid-19 has tested us in ways we could scarcely have imagined just 12 months ago. Through it all, our photographers have chronicled these experiences, capturing the beauty, poignancy and inner strength of our nation. Powerfully sad image of respect shown to fallen Garda Horkan Mark Condren Ill never forget the night of June 17, 2020. About 1am I was woken by a text: A Gar...