Gardaí, students, hospital porters, and doctors share their Covid stories one year later

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.

Sergeant Angela Cummins has to split homeschooling with her husband, an essential worker, during the pandemic. Photo: James Connolly

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.