"In a world where you can fly off a message of a goodwill with the flick of your thumb on your channel of choice, WhatsApp, Facebook or old school text, there is something now sacrosanct about the Christmas card, especially the Covid Christmas card"

The wild Atlantic waves took our breath away — but also gave us a few days of the special peace that is to be found in certainty

We don't have to give each other an orange for Christmas, but maybe if we cooled the jets a bit and took this much-needed festival back from what advertising Inc says it should be

'I've tried everything these 20 months: I've walked, I've crafted, I've swam in the sea, I've meditated and I've done yoga, but all of them combined do not compare to listening to this Cork man read a poem into your ears, and hear him confess his own human, but universal struggles, to fit in, to forgive or to bother finding hope'

Scratch below the historical surface of conspiracy theories and you'll find they have always been used to create a radicalising pathway by far right movements globally

"To some her life might have been extra ordinary, but zoom out the lens and you'll see a woman who just wanted to live, who wanted to swim in the sea, to blow out candles on birthday cakes, to talk to her husband and who wanted to retire, read the paper and watch her kids grow up"

Reframe is the name of the game — giving peace of mind that we are at least doing something at an individual level

It's difficult to change minds with words like 'disaster', 'crisis', and 'radical', but appealing to common values like making the world a better place for our children are what bring the story home.

How we can go from 20 months of living under restrictions and high alert, where our nervous systems got strung out in a state of hypervigilance, to just being 'back to normal'?

"So when you worry that your house is a mess or that you could never run 5km, or that you're not bringing enough cash into your home, it is in this context — the context that women, mothers predominantly, are plugging the chasm in childcare where the State will not"