âTheyâre so used to hearing âyou canât go here or you canât go there because of the virusâ, they know that there is something in the air. theyâre very aware of it and the restrictions. Their other grandparents live in the UK unfortunately so they havenât seen them for a long time.
âLike everybody, we all started with Zoom group meetings and Zoom quizzes but mostly phone calls. some of the older grandkids might stand at the gate and say hiâ.
âThe Zooms are a bit unreal because the younger kids donât really understand them so itâs hard really to get a grasp on that.â
Flowers delivered to elderly ladies cocooning in Limerick parish for International Women s Day
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COVID has made the chairperson of Kilfinane senior citizens Christmas party currently redundant but she certainly hasn t sat back and waited for December.
Marie O Connor came up with the idea of delivering purple flower pots to every elderly woman cocooning in the Kilfinane area to mark International Women s Day. It was just to tell them they are not being forgotten. They are still a part of the community, said Marie, who contacted Hennessy Nurseries who loved and got behind the idea.
The flower pots have been delivered to women in Glenosheen, Ardpatrick, Glenroe, Ballyorgan, Ballinvreena and Kilfinane over the last few days. They came complete with a card from da Vinci Creative.