It's 22 months since the Taoiseach of the time stood in New York City on 12 March 2020, to announce the first raft of Covid-19 restrictions for Ireland.
This included school closures and limits on indoor and outdoor gatherings. Leo Varadkar said the pandemic would bring big changes to how we live our lives, but that one day the time would come when they would go back to normal.
It seems now could be that time. Taoiseach Micheál Martin has announced that almost all of the Covid-19 measures introduced to limit the spread of the virus are being lifted. "Today is a good day," he told.
And while the prospect of a return to normal will be met with relief and elation in some quarters, for others, there may be apprehension and anxiety.