President Michael D Higgins spoke for everyone yesterday when, via local radio stations, he acknowledged the growing debt we owe to thousands of frontline workers battling the pandemic. In a bespoke address, President Higgins said that this virus will pass and when it does we can celebrate that by supporting what is local.

Terry Prone continues her isolation diary for Covid-19

Many of us have heard of Bernardo O’Higgins and Admiral Brown, but a new book looks at the impact, good and bad, our fellow countryman have had on a far-flung continent writes Noel Baker.