Plaque, made by older people and students, is a ‘lovely’ way to commemorate pandemic, broadcaster says
paid tribute to the people of his hometown in Bandon as he opened one of the country’s first memorials remembering those who died during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Unveiling the plaque outside the Allin Institute, Norton said: “It was terrifying – I was in London at the beginning of it and you thought there were going to be piles of bodies on the streets because you didn’t know how or when it was going to end – that was the scary thing.” Irish Wix worker who was unfairly dismissed for criticising Israel on social media feels ‘blacklisted’Green Party leader: Hackett announces she is entering race against O’Gorman“I only just discovered that there are no memorials to 80 million people who died in the Spanish Flu but it makes total sense because people didn’t want to dwell on it – it’s understandable that we want to move on and never think about the Covid pandemic again,” Norton said.
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