From postmen to wedding photographers: Covid stories after a year no one will forget 

With hope on the horizon from the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines, Maresa Fagan and Joyce Fegan talk to health care workers, frontline workers and a student about a year that no one will ever forget.

Mercy Hospital nurse Emma Murphy, who works in the emergency department (ED), there are two crises at present — the third Covid wave that is beginning to subside and the non-Covid care crisis that is only beginning to break through. Photo: Denis Minihane.

It’s a year since health authorities confirmed the first case of Covid-19 in the Republic.
In the following 12 months, our worlds have been turned upside down.

More than 4,000 people — mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters — died from the infectious disease, and we’ve been bounced from lockdown to lockdown.