The Irish medics using poetry to battle the Covid-19 pandemic

The healthcare workers gather as regularly as they can to discuss, read, and perform their own poetry. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

A group of Irish medics have been prescribing themselves poetry, amid the stresses and strains of working at the front line of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dr Stephen Hatton first thought about starting a poetry society in the depths of winter 2020, as cases began to soar.