Growing up in lockdown means missing the little things while looking forward to 'just everything'

Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh student Holly Whelan at the school.  Picture: Brian Arthur

It’s the little things that Holly Whelan, 17, misses; going to the cinema, getting dolled up, sleepovers with her best friends, smiling at someone good looking, cups of tea in her granddad’s house, Penneys, sitting on a crowded 301 bus, sharing a salt & chilli chicken box with her friends on a Friday, sitting next to someone new.

A fifth-year student at Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh in Limerick City, the lockdown last March meant her transition year (TY) experience was abruptly cut short.