"We have not seen our families since July 2019." "Working from home is slowly driving me insane." "Due to these measures my partner broke up with me." Three striking sentences from the hundreds of emails and letters people wrote to the Taoiseach during the first two months of the year.
The correspondence is laden with pain and no little exasperation as the country grappled with the pandemic and the lockdown.
The central theme concerns the issue of mandatory hotel quarantine, which was discussed at length politically throughout January and February.
The conflicting and often emotional views on the subject are set out in clear terms over many emails. They give a detailed insight into the factors considered by Government before deciding on the