Restrictions may be easing, but the pandemic continues to take its toll on children with special needs. Take 14-year-old Jack Stewart from Finglas in Dublin.
The teenager was diagnosed with dyslexia when he was seven and dyspraxia when he was nine. He has endured stressful spells during the pandemic.
He said: "Everyone is in the same boat. But some people have a harder time than other people. My brothers and sisters have partners and they go out camping and go to the beach.
They have someone to talk to and to hang out with while I have no one, except my parents. It was a hard time. I couldn't talk to my friends." Music has been an escape for Jack and he has taught himself how to play the ukulele. "I got lucky.