Billy Lawless: A Former Emigrant Senator's Musings

It has often been said that you don't miss something until it's gone. Under lockdown, I can imagine that there are many 'at home' reminiscing fondly about their last pint in the local or harkening back to a time, when their daily activities had not been curtailed by a global pandemic.
The Irish Famine Memorial on the North Quay in Dublin. Photo:PA
The Irish Famine Memorial on the North Quay in Dublin. Photo:PA

It has often been said that you don't miss something until it's gone.

Under lockdown, I can imagine that there are many 'at home' reminiscing fondly about their last pint in the local or harkening back to a time, when their daily activities had not been curtailed by a global pandemic. It's only human nature, as they say.

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