Alison O'Connor: Summer 2020 will be remembered for many reasons

In almost every town, there are businesses that shut in March and would not be reopening, even if a vaccine was found tomorrow

Is that a ‘foreign’ accent, you wonder, as you queue for a coffee and strain to hear the language being spoken, while social distancing of course.

The hand written sign was seen stuck on the windscreen of a car in the Co Cork village of Glengarriff this week. The note stated that the occupants had observed a two week quarantine period after entering the country. This vehicle had French number plates.

It may have been a pre emptive strike, but the likelihood is that note was placed there following a few comments the opposite of a Cead mile failte.