Clodagh Finn: You can tell the story of a lifetime in how you see a bright May day

If the pandemic has highlighted the need to value older people. In every older person, there is a collection of younger selves who have seen and done so much more than we think

Margaretta D’Arcy in 'Mad, Bad, and Dangerous, a celebration of 'difficult' women', showing as part of Age & Opportunity's Bealtaine Festival. Picture courtesy of Cathy Dunne

I USED to think it was hilarious when my mother looked out the window on a bright May day and said: “It’s a great day for drying.”

What a way to think of a fine day, I used to think, when you could be out under that blue sky doing so many other things.