One couple tell us about leaving Ireland to go house-sitting around Spain while Brianna Parkins outlines some of the challenges facing people who wish to move back
MIKE Kelly, aviation enthusiast and curator of the Shannon Airport Aviation Gallery, has finally launched his long-awaited memoir, Pulling Back the Clouds. At t.
Siobhan McSweeney, actress. From Aherla in Cork, living in London
I am in my flat in London right now, teaching myself embroidery and eating too much. I’m trying to read but ending up watching old episodes of Miss Marple. I was last in Ireland only in January. The Olympia Theatre with Landmark Productions, funded by the Department of Arts, live-streamed Happy Days by Samuel Beckett for one night only with myself and Marty Rae.
I was rehearsing in Belfast in December and it meant that I was in the extraordinarily lucky position of being able to spend Christmas Day and Stephen’s Day with my family. It was the best Christmas because of that. It gave me such a lift. I hadn’t been home in over a year.