At home with... RTÉ Newsroom`s Karen Creed
(WorldNews Entertainment)

My approach in general would be glass half full but this last year has tested even the most optimistic, writes RTE journalist Karen Creed. "Alexa, when will Covid be gone?" That is a question I recently overhead my five-year-old daughter Simone ask the speaker in our bedroom. In the early days of the pandemic when I tried to explain to her and my seven- year-old daughter Faith that we needed to stay apart from friends and we couldn't go to playgrounds, it didn’t make any sense to them. Now, ten months later they understand a lot can be blamed on Covid. Our home life, like many others, is a juggling act without school at the moment and childcare....