Five years on: Frontline workers reflect on how covid changed their lives and careers

Five years after covid first arrived in Ireland, Sharon Ní Chonchúir speaks to five frontline workers about its impact on their lives and the workplace improvements that followed

Some of the frontline workers who join us in reflecting on the five-year mark of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Cast your mind back to early 2020. Covid-19 was sweeping across the world. Nobody knew exactly how it was transmitted. Medics seemed powerless to stop it, and thousands were dying. 

The first case of coronavirus was diagnosed in Ireland on February 29. The first death occurred on March 11 in CUH.