'I will finally feel free': Cocooner Nuala welcomes relaxation of restrictions

Mike and Nuala Barry, at their home in Ballinlough. Pictures: Larry Cummins

Her travel plans were ambitious, but her hopes were modest: Nuala Barry just wanted to walk out her gate “and feel free” for the first time in almost six weeks.

Somehow the disappointment of planned but cancelled trips to various parts of Europe over the coming months seemed insignificant compared to the devastation she would have felt had the Government failed to relax its cocooning rules.