There’s more to romance than finance...

Denis Lehane returns to basics as lockdown prevents him from spending money!

Celebrating Valentine’s Day in the middle of a pandemic, lockdown was a stiff test for the romantically minded. File Picture. 

You’ll find a lot of fellows have lately begun to talk bitterly, and moan loudly about the length of our present lockdown. Wondering if it will ever end. Wondering if it will eventually drive us all out of our minds. Wondering if Boris might come over across the pond and finally sort things out.

Well I have to laugh, for I have never heard such balderdash. We don’t need Boris. Far from it. The reality is that this long, lingering lockdown has been the greatest thing to ever happen to Ireland, and particularly in rural Ireland.