A collective sigh of relief will have been breathed by many school principals as their facilities - both primary and post primary closed on Friday evening for the weekend.
There will have been sighs of relief from parents too, and others. After months of preparation and anticipation around half of the nation's primary schools reopened this week, and the majority of secondary schools.
The vast bulk of the rest will reopen on Monday and Tuesday. There was massive trepidation among those responsible for the reopening as to how it would all work out, but now it’s done.
By and large it has gone as smoothly as anyone could have hoped for, on the surface at least. It’s been a mammoth task - the past few weeks have seen many schools