Damien Enright: Slopes of gorse transformed plain tarmac into golden corridors

Seeing Ireland with fresh eyes... the joys of spring

Returning from La Gomera on the road home to West Cork slopes of gorse transformed plain tarmac into golden corridors. What a welcome home for us, magical for a visitor.

COMING home to Ireland from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, we had reason to be cautious, so we contrived a plan. 

Not wanting to travel via a busy and dangerous hub like Stanstead, we booked seats on the once-weekly direct Ryanair flight leaving Tenerife at 8pm on a Friday and arriving in Dublin just before midnight. All passengers would have had to present a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test result, performed to detect genetic material from a specific organism, such as a virus, before boarding. Proper order, of course, ensuring nobody brought Covid home.