Mo Laethanta Saoire: 2020 was the year Ireland was discovered by the Irish

Summer 2020 will be forever remembered as the year of the ‘staycation’. Cónal Creedon recalls his trip to Inishturk off the coast of Mayo with his partner, Fiona O’Toole

Cónal Creedon with Fiona O'Toole on a staycation in the west of Ireland.

Looking back on it, I guess she was of seafaring, Hiberno-Norse extract, if not a daughter of Queen Maebh herself. Out she stepped, hands perched comfortably on her hips. And with a flick of her head, she sent tresses of copper coloured curls, cascading down over squared shoulders.

But I digress … Come with me to 2020; the summer of our discontent. It was a time when pestilence stalked the land and the world as we knew it stopped spinning.