Lockdown abroad - Michelle Vearncombe Carmody

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

"Sending big massive hugs to all my family in Ireland, UK, and Australia and other parts of the world. I am in France where lockdown is lockdown. Permission forms are required to leave the house. The gendarme are checking forms and ID and issuing fines with the possibility of a six month prison term for repeat offenders without forms. A curfew has also been imposed. Stay in and be safe everyone."

Lockdown abroad - Arlene Coughlan

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

"Howdy from north west Houston, Texas. So things here are ok so far. Everyone is working online from home. The children were on spring break from school two weeks ago and have been off since. The school districts have provided online timetables with classes and tutorials for the children to stay on track with studies plus help parents keep an everyday schedule.

Lockdown abroad - Laura Daly

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

"I live in the south west of Spain and we have been on full lockdown for 10 days now. I am keeping busy by baking, following online workouts, pretending like I am finally going to read all the books on my shelf, and having lots of video chats with friends and family.

Lockdown abroad - Rosieta Hynes

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

"I am in the south of Germany on the Swiss/French border. It is crazy times here. We are only allowed out in twos and there are strict controls everywhere. I have been let off work temporarily so I planted the garden and have started getting the wardrobes sorted.

Lockdown abroad - James Mahon

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

"I am a university lecturer and run a BA journalism degree at the University of the west of Scotland. We are moving into online lecturing and remote teaching equipped and aided by Microsoft teams, Skype business, and Facebook and WhatsApp group calls.

Galway lockdown views: Frank O'Connell

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

"To keep ourselves busy, and to relieve boredom, The Kinlay Hostel has decided to focus on one thing each week to help others.

Galway lockdown views: Monica Mac Donald

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

"Luckily for some of us, we work from home and I can see this way of working will become more the norm (and it is greener) once broadband is rolled out to all corners of the country. So I have been catching up on the boring stuff and becoming a domestic goddess (oh and doing laundry); baking muffins (and sharing but also eating them); and binging on TV; sorting photos; and cutting the grass. My travel crossword book is getting a bit of use (as we won't be flying for a good while) and I also sang on a video to my sons for Mother’s Day (not for the public as cats and dogs may run for cover). We are keeping our spirits up and praising our front liners and all those going to work to help us through this. Stay safe and please mind yourselves."

Lockdown abroad - Martina Geraghty

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

"Greetings from Cornwall. I am working on the frontline in NHS and it feels like the calm before the storm. Massive hugs to my family and friends in Headford and cousins in Galway city and county. I cycle every evening on my indoor trainer to exercise and pass the time. Stay strong and stay safe."

Lockdown abroad - Eduard Antoniu

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

"I am extremely busy at home as usual lately, no time or place for boredom and not enough time to do what I want, just stressed out by idiotic noisy neighbours. I'm not leaving the house even if it is postatomic (except for just running away back to Galway again) - I wish I never left it and now I cannot even run away back there.

Lockdown abroad - David Browne

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

"I am in lockdown in Lanzarote. There is no walking the prom here. The weather is lovely and I am in a bungalow beside Playa Chica. It is boring but safe. God bless everyone and take care."

Lockdown abroad - Daragh O'Fiannaidhe

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

"I am in Manchester and just moved into a new house yesterday afternoon. Luckily we moved everything in one day. My boredom will be filled with finding a place for everything in the new house."

Lockdown abroad - Adrienne Leader

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

"I am living in San Francisco. My work has shut down and I am home with the children. To pass the time we are going for drives by the water, gardening, and avoiding watching Trump on TV."

Keeping hope alive in challenging times

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

We can learn a lot from previous generations. Think about our ancestors who survived the Famine, wars, high child mortality rates, poor medical care and working conditions, the scourge of TB, and shortage of money.

Seeing light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel

Thu, Mar 19, 2020

Mary Tierney has a hand sanitiser and a notice appealing to visitors to wash their hands attached to her front door at her home in Castlegar.

Free initial HR and recruitment consultation from GHR Consulting

Thu, Mar 19, 2020

GHR Consulting is a Human Resources and Recruitment consultancy based in Galway City and was set up by Ruairi Guckian in October, 2019.

A challenge that is alien to many of us

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

"Rodders, my son, this end of the world could be the making of us..." — Del Boy, Only Fools and Horses.

It's a sense of entrapment to which we are not accustomed. The releases to which we would normally look at this time of the year are not an option for us. An island nation, there was always the option to get to where the sun shines, where the headspace is clearer, to a place sufficiently different from our own that it would class as a break from the normal worries and stresses of human life.

Fantasy Football round 30 preview

Wed, Mar 11, 2020

So what has round 29 done to the top three of the Advertiser Tribal League in association with Monroe's Tavern?

WilliamsKate Street — for a day

Thu, Mar 05, 2020

There’s nothing like a good aul’ visit to focus the mind. Whether it’s the Royals or the Yanks, it sort of makes you stand up, puff out the cushions, throw a lick of paint on the doorpost and reach up to the dresser for the best Willow design cups.

There must be a whole generation of Americans who think that the entire population of Ireland pre-1970, instead of being perceived as the mucksavages we were, supped our tea every evening from dainty little cups with blue designs, and ate salads consisting of a slice of ham, a leaf of lettuce and a solitary tomato the size of a sliotar.

Fantasy Football round 29 preview

Wed, Mar 04, 2020

Liverpool have been beaten. Yes, the runaway league leaders finally suffered their first Premier League defeat as they were humbled 3-0 by relegation threatened Watford at Vicarage Road on Saturday evening.

Living on a volcano — putting a price on what matters

Thu, Feb 27, 2020

“Being a football manager is like living on a volcano: any day may be your last” - Arsene Wenger

At night his heartbeat gets faster when he hears it, the drip drip; the wind getting up; the words from the forecast ringing in his ears; his mind a mixture of warnings yellow and orange of wind and rain. He twists but sleep doesn’t come because there is always a worry that it will happen again; like before. The forecast said rain...heavy rain...torrential rain...rain that will swell the river below.

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