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Yesterday marked the anniversary of the establishment of Cumann na mBan in 1914

For the second year, our Easter celebrations will be curtailed due to Covid-19 restrictions. There won’t be any big family gatherings, well-attended church services, public commemorative events, or collective Easter egg hunts.

The general public will, as it has done so many times before, dig deep to find resilience and ingenuity to mark this time of renewal in an attempt to raise flagging spirits at a difficult time. And it has been an incredibly difficult week as we have seen the privileged and entitled flout Covid-19 restrictions to train at dawn or jump the vaccine queue to administer “jabs for boys”.