Lockdown views: Aisleen Clarke

Galway City

"I am looking forward to visiting family and friends. I miss my little nephews (aged one and four ) and my parents. I’d be hiking up Croagh Patrick in the good weather with my parents and I miss being able to call into them. I’m looking forward to going out on my motorbike, going dancing, hitting the gym, and getting back to my pole dancing classes, and gymnastics.

"I like to do a lot of strength conditioning and have been getting very lazy and putting on a few unwanted pounds being stuck inside. On that note, I’m looking forward to drinking socially outside the house again. I’m supposed to be moving to Australia later this year and had planned on spending a month in Vietnam beforehand. I’m looking forward to being able to plan trips again and more importantly, be allowed into Australia.

"I’ve learnt that we need to appreciate our healthcare system which needs to be reformed. Also, countries like ourselves are not invincible; these things don’t just happen in Third World countries. We need to appreciate the freedoms we enjoy, being able to go to work, visit people without restriction. I think my generation definitely takes these freedoms for granted."

 

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