Michael Moynihan: We've survived worse things than Covid-19 — and life is looking up

Past experiences have shown Corkonians to be strong in the face of adversity — and better times are on the way, writes Michael Moynihan

Winthrop Street and Patrick Street after the Burning of Cork in 1920. Picture: Cork Public Museum

Farewell then to 2020, which has now lasted roughly 22 months by my calculation. It ends this evening, thank God: after midnight it will never be 2020, or twenty past eight, again.

At this stage, one of the many lessons taught by the pandemic revolves around presumptions – as in all of those comfortable presumptions about what 2020 held for us, which didn’t survive past March. We won’t be making that mistake again.