Lessons I learned from the last lockdown

Eating barmbrack and parenting at maintenance level: How Ciara McDonnell will approach Level 5

Ciara says she will not be getting up at 4am to cook loaves of no-knead bread for her family, as she did in March and April. Picture: PA

Last night, while preparing ourselves for An Taoiseach's address to the nation, my colleague Eoghan O'Sullivan proved himself to have his finger on the pulse of what is important, decreeing Barmbrack to be the Banana Bread of Lockdown Mark 2. 

Forget banana bread - barm brack and Christmas cake will be the booze-soaked baking stars of lockdown 2 https://t.co/MKiL30oEfm

— Eoghan O'Sullivan (@OSEoghan) October 19, 2020