Helen Brennan

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Multiple groups have sprung up online to support people experiencing unusually long recovery from ‘mild’ or ‘moderate’ Covid-19 and many of their members report being continually dismissed by health professionals. Photograph: iStock
Covid and the brain: ‘This has taken almost everything that is me away from me’

On St Patrick’s Day 2020, after a weekend on call, Linn Järte, an outdoorsy, 33-year-old doctor, developed flu-like symptoms. After two weeks in bed s(...)

Fianna Fáil candidate Mary Hanafin canvasses resident Frank McGee in the Park area of Cabinteely, in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown constituency. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Election 2016: FF hoping to build on signs of forgiveness

On a cold, wet, dark February night five years ago, I drove out to Blanchardstown to meet a young Fianna Fáil councillor, David McGuinness. I was doin(...)