Today is the last day of February. It was the final day of the month, 29 February, last year that the first case of Covid-19 was recorded in Ireland.
As she reflects on the year we have all witnessed, here are the words of journalist and broadcaster Olivia O'Leary. It felt like our generation's war.
The troops at the front line. The rest of us at home, often separated from our loved ones. Suddenly old wartime songs like 'We'll meet again' made us want to cry.
Real life was being lived somewhere else, on the other side of a pane of glass. Not for the frontline workers. It was all too real for them.