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 our lives, tools we can use when we need them.
More of us have also become used to online shopping, cancelling out the necessity of a weekly trudge around a supermarket and the decline in the use of cash has been dramatic.
8 min read Some suburban areas of Dublin have thrived during the pandemic, with new outdoor facilites creating a tighter sense of community, while other parts of the city continue to cry out for better resources
The south Dublin suburb of Blackrock is a place transformed. Where the affluent seaside village had always been well-presented, if a little bland and uninspiring, since lockdown it is now âbuzzingâ, âthrivingâ and has a ânew-found sense of communityâ say locals.
New benches, picnic-tables, a two-way cycle lane protected by a line of raised-bed planters, and young trees positioned along the main street welcome visitors. Even on-street coffee-tables beckon. Traffic has been reduced to one-way and footpaths have been widened to twice or more of their pre-Covid dimensions.
Calls to include vitamin D as part of a national strategy to tackle COVID continues to gain momentum as health experts have pushed Ireland’s government to consider and act upon the latest evidence.
In an online meeting of the Joint Health Committee this week, Dr Daniel McCartney highlighted a lack of official action in the face of research suggesting a protective role of vitamin D against COVID-19.
“Despite the now dozens of positive studies including tens of thousands of participants, there has been no policy change in Ireland to advance what we believe to be an extremely low risk, readily implemented, cheap and potentially highly effective intervention to mitigate this public health crisis,” he said.
For the past 12 years, the John Molson Undergraduate Case Competition has attracted teams from renowned business schools across the globe.
Hosted by the John Molson School of Business, part of Concordia University, a case competition is an opportunity for students to work together in teams to solve problems and create business solutions for a specific case.
Demanding and dynamic cases, mixed with unique social events, make JMUCC a one-of-a-kind case competition that allows students to put their creative and analytical skills to the test. Throughout the week, each team will be required to apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired in the classroom towards solving live business cases. Their analysis will then be presented to a panel of respected judges and industry specialists who will carefully evaluate the presentations and determine one winning team.