The February 2020 general election was not a pleasant or ideal time to enter Dáil Éireann as the world quickly turned upside down during the onset of the covid-19 pandemic.

Within a few months, the Dáil had relocated to the soulless glass barrel that is the Convention Centre — a venue supposedly more appropriate for political discourse by social distancing in comparison to the squeezed corridors of Leinster House.

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