With the Taoiseach signalling this week that high levels of restrictions will remain until after Easter, how do the public feel about that prospect?
Early last year, we spoke to the people of Marino in Dublin about how they were coping with what were then the relatively new restrictions.
Ten months on we have been back to see how they are doing. The seasons have changed, but Covid remains constant. We first met the Cheevers in the sunshine of last April, when the concept of cocooning was brand new.
Back then they found it tough, and they say it hasn't got any easier. Dolores Cheevers says: ''I feel a bit more down this time than I did the last time we talked.