Training puppies over Zoom: how Covid-19 impacted Irish Guide Dogs

Erin McDonald, shared services supervisor at the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind, Model Farm Road, Cork, with two of their new dogs Ezra and Bubbles. Picture: Dan Linehan

For the Irish Guide Dogs, it has been a year like no other.

In March, the dogs, usually housed on Model Farm Road in the west of Cork city, were put into temporary homes, and training resumed in May once the initial lockdown was over.