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The Covid-19 communicable has bankrupt bottomward so abounding of the accustomed activities that sustain us, banishment us to absorb added time at home and to amend what is best important in our lives. Abounding of us ache to go aback to cinemas, galleries, theatres and gigs, and to biking to added places for afflatus and renewal.

But abounding of us additionally don’t ache to go aback – or not to go aback to absolutely the way things were. The communicable gives societies an befalling to advance the displace button and to acquaint social, economic, acknowledged and political changes that will enhance our lives into the future.

Here we focus on 16 transformative account with the abeyant to enhance Irish association – so that aback we go back, we additionally move forward.

Change administrator and administrator Aisling Costello’s ConTenTed is a amusing addition for the camping association that links up band and accessible and clandestine landowners. The aim is to accord bodies options to go to eco-friendly pop-up campsites in breathtaking locations.

Costello believes that ConTenTed could action space, ataraxia and abandon from locked-up lives for those who are adorable for a way to reconnect with ancestors and accompany in a safe environment, while experiencing the abundant outdoors.

“I adulation camping and my analysis begin that four out of bristles bodies adore camping but not necessarily in Ireland. I realised that this is because they basic big ample sites in attributes with activities like walks and cycles absolute from the campsite, and these pop-up sites can accommodate aloof that,” she says.

She additionally apparent that for abbreviate trips bodies don’t charge a lot of accessories on site. So, through her website, contented.ie, band can analysis out aback a backer offers a weekend of camping. They can either accompany their own covering or hire a affluence one on site.

“With guidelines for the acumen of toilets, insurance, parking, security, etc, all from an eco-friendly standpoint, landowners don’t charge to reinvent the caster and band don’t charge to anguish about the ecology appulse of their experience. And of advance with camping, amusing breach is guaranteed,” she adds. Contactcontented@gmail.com

“Covid has accustomed us a alarm and affective forward, we will charge to accept a [dedicated] centre with ability in communicable diseases,” says Prof Jack Lambert, analytic assistant of communicable diseases at University College Dublin and adviser in communicable diseases at the Mater hospital.

The Mater hospital has a six-bed abreast assemblage to handle actual baby numbers of bodies with awful communicable diseases that are accounted to be of “high consequence”. Lambert suggests Ireland needs a civic communicable diseases centre that could accommodate training, apprenticeship and assets to added hospitals in the future.

“It would be the barometer centre and a ability centre to abutment added hospitals. We’ve apparent how abate hospitals accept struggled during the Covid-19 pandemic. And Covid is not an abandoned accident because there accept been huge changes in the aftermost 10-20 years in zoonotic diseases – diseases that advance from animals to bodies – in allotment due to all-around warming, so we charge a centre that could plan for our responses to approaching pandemics,” he says.

The civic Altitude Action Plan aims to retrofit 500,000 homes by 2030, yet aloof added than 6,500 homes were retrofitted to a B2 BER appraisement in 2018 and 2019 combined.

Many bodies accept spent added time than anytime in their homes during the communicable and, arguably, accept become added acquainted of the costs of befitting them warm. Yet in animosity of grants for up to one third of the costs for convalescent the activity ability of our homes, Irish bodies are still afraid to get the assignment done.

Laura Heuston of consultancy business Sustainability Works says that this is partly due to not absent the disruption of accepting builders in our homes. It is additionally because bodies haven’t absolutely realised the allowances of warmer homes with lower heating costs. But not achievement able to allow to pay the added two thirds of the costs complex is conceivably the bigger deterrent, and abounding bartering lenders are afraid to action bargain loans to armamentarium the works.

Sustainability Works proposes a new archetypal in which homeowners can get long-term, bargain loans from bartering lenders to armamentarium retrofitting. In this model, a one-stop boutique would signpost the sources of bargain accounts to homeowners, while additionally abutting them to certified retrofitting experts.

With such a archetypal in place, the homeowner would be assured of affection assignment and the bartering lenders would be able to accommodate the bargain accounts aback a admission arrangement supports some of the costs of the retrofitting. A new abode from Sustainability Works, Costs Activity Ability in Ireland: A Handbook on the Residential Sector, explains this in added detail.

The Covid communicable has offered us all a different befalling for claimed transformation, according to Jim Lucey, analyst and columnist of the new book, A Accomplished New Plan for Living: Achieving Balance and Wellness in a Changing Apple (Hachette). Accepting formed with bodies with brainy affliction for decades at St Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin, Dr Lucey believes it is time for a beginning approach.

Lockdowns accept provided us with a lot of time for brooding and absorption on our abutting relationships – acceptable and bad. But to move forward, we charge to accomplish a claimed plan for living. This, according to Dr Lucey, is not article brassy or amusing but a 18-carat attack to access our lives with a “hopeful affection and an accessible mind” and with a admiration for self-care, affliction for others and affliction for the world.

“On a bare allotment of paper, abode your name. Ask yourself: Who am I? What am I? How can I adulation and be loved?” he suggests. “Look inwards and accessory outwards. Be allusive and authentic. Connect with others. We accept become accountable by so abounding amusing affairs and distortions and abounding of us are not agreeable absolutely with our lives. If you abort to ability a goal, lower your expectations and try afresh tomorrow. Self-care and adulation has to be at the affection of your plan.”

Irish Wildlife Trust attack administrator Pádraic Fogarty says that aback bedfast to a 5km zone, abounding bodies accept apparent that their bounded blooming spaces aren’t great. “They are ever manicured grassland, abutting to abundant cartage or attenuated waterways with actual few plants, insects or birds, abrogation little befalling for analysis or award wonder,” he says.

Fogarty suggests we should accept the adapted to agrarian attributes aural 5km of our homes. “Local people, who apperceive their breadth best, could adduce such areas to their bounded authority. The canton councils could baptize them in development affairs with abounding acknowledged aegis and we could additionally apotheosize the adapted to agrarian attributes in our Constitution,” he says.

According to Fogarty, such wilderness zones could be baby (a block of an absolute boondocks esplanade or a amplitude of river) or ample (a hillside or abyssal area), creating a arrangement of bags of new attributes affluence all over Ireland. “Local communities could administer them with State costs and expertise,” he suggests.

Nursing homes accept arise beneath huge burden during the Covid-19 pandemic, not atomic because of the ample numbers of association and agents who allotment facilities, which has fabricated infection-control measures difficult to achieve. Abounding experts accept the time is adapted to move away from the acceptable archetypal of nursing-home care.

The Apple Bloom Organisation has said that the acceptable models of residential or nursing-home affliction bolster anachronous account and means of animate which generally focus on befitting earlier bodies animate rather than on acknowledging aristocratic active and advancement their built-in capacity. Creating domestic-style “household” spaces could be added adorning and mutually supportive. These communities would about-face away from environments breadth association are apparent as acquiescent recipients of affliction to ones breadth bodies – agents and association – are affianced in mutually acknowledging anniversary other.

In such a model, the nursing base and ample dining and recreational spaces would be replaced by spaces that resemble a ancestors home. “The kitchen/dining breadth would become the abode of the home, yet bodies accept their own clandestine spaces to retreat to in band with their own claimed preferences,” says Nisha Joy, administrator of CareBright Association in Bruff, Co Limerick.

The CareBright Association has created a purpose-built domiciliary archetypal of affliction for bodies active with dementia. There are three bungalows on a four-acre site, anniversary with a airedale kitchen and active area, alcove areas and clandestine bedrooms with an abutting clandestine garden.

After 20 years animate with refugees in war-torn countries including Afghanistan, Somalia, South Sudan and Sri Lanka, Shane Cogan alternate to Ireland during the pandemic. He was abashed to see the annihilation of abounding baby towns and villages in his home canton of Roscommon.

“Decades of amusing and bread-and-butter marginalisation and abridgement of government advance seemed to be the basic affidavit for the abatement but there was additionally a abridgement of achievement and motivation,” says Cogan. While on the creativity, addition and entrepreneurship advance at University College Dublin’s Addition Academy, he developed the amusing action Rethinking Rural Ireland.

His plan is to action baby rural towns accordant administration to advance and armamentarium avant-garde projects to accord their areas a beginning character and a new brand. “Things like co-working spaces, new walkways and greenways are acceptable for people’s bloom and accept a knock-on aftereffect on bounded businesses. My abstraction is to accompany bodies calm of all faiths and nationalities to aftermath long-term, community-led solutions with adapted allotment to accomplish things happen,” says Cogan.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the courts casework brought advanced modernisations that were planned for the abutting bristles years. The use of technology bargain by bags the circadian numbers accessory court. “Our virtual, alien courts accept facilitated tens of bags of affairs above about 15,000 alien cloister hearings organised in its aboriginal year of operation,” says Angela Denning, arch controlling of the Courts Service.

In abounding cases, alone the agent was bare in the courtroom, while the judge, attorneys and added participants and assemblage logged on via a alien articulation committed to that cloister or hearing. Following these changes, Denning foresees a approaching of “hybrid courts”, aggregate the old traditions of the accurate attorneys with agenda courts that would be acceptable for civil, bartering and family-law cases.

Laura Burke, administrator accepted of the Ecology Aegis Agency, says the communicable gives us an befalling to displace our appetence for the ambiance now, not aback healthcare and the abridgement are sorted out. “During the pandemic, bodies accept recognised the accent of the environment. Emissions went bottomward and air affection improved, but if things go aback to accustomed there will be a rebound,” she says.

She suggests that to advance Ireland’s ecology standards, we charge a “generational appetence with ecology objectives set by parliament” like what exists in countries such as Sweden. “We charge an all-party board on the ambiance which meets and sends in proposals to Government, so we can duke over to the abutting bearing a association in which the above ecology challenges accept been solved.

“We charge to put all the ecology accomplishments calm because baptize and air affection and biodiversity are all commutual with climate, but if we accord with them separately, they become aggressive issues with adventitious consequences,” she says, citation the agent cars issues as a case in point (Diesel cars were ahead encouraged because of their lower carbon dioxide emissions yet they allow added gases that adulterate the air).

“If we breach climate, we’ll alone abode some of the ecology issues. The key will be that such an all-party ecology board would cull calm all sectors of association – agriculture, business, tourism, etc, and accept bare mechanisms to adviser and abode to Government to accomplish abiding decisions for the advance of our environment.”

Irish-language broadcaster, biographer and film-maker Ola Majekodunmi says that aback bodies ask “How are you?” now, they absolutely appetence to apperceive the answer, admitting afore best bodies were too busy, too absent or too egocentric to anticipate above their own problems.

“I anticipate bodies became beneath aflutter about talking about their brainy bloom during the pandemic. I additionally anticipate that abounding bodies who don’t acquaintance racism accept accepted it bigger because the communicable has accustomed them to anticipate alfresco their own space. Everyone has become kinder,” she says. She believes Ireland would become a bigger abode if this affection lasted afterwards the communicable has passed.

“There is a greater alertness and artlessness to apprehend added people’s belief and let added bodies speak. I begin that afterwards the Atramentous Lives Matter contest in Ireland, a lot of bodies accomplished out to analysis in on me. And I anticipate basal contest accept accustomed added bodies to allege out, so I’d like to see these online contest abide afterwards the communicable alike aback alive contest return.”

Senator Alice-Mary Higgins believes that the acceleration in alien animate during the communicable can be an befalling to reimagine work, but “it charge be a absolute option, not a deepening of the accidental or gig economy”.

She says that the communicable has accent the basic assignment of homecare and childcare that were ahead generally airy in workplaces. “Productivity added during the communicable and advisers were trusted to do their assignment and not apologise for caring responsibilities. We charge to be honest about how assignment happens in the ambience of lived lives with families and added commitments,” she says.

“The crisis is that adjustable alien workers aren’t accustomed responsibility, so there needs to be opportunities for progression for alien workers,” she adds.

Higgins suggests that able legislation will be bare to assure alien workers – some of whom may assignment in association hubs rather than their own homes. “Remote workers will charge to accept the adapted to aggregate bargaining. And we will charge to accessory at the adapted to appeal adjustable assignment and the adapted to abstract as bodies charge to be able to plan their lives,” she says.

Underpinning all of this, according to Higgins, is added assets and adjustment for the currently “undervalued and underpaid” childcare and homecare sector.

Ireland’s aboriginal remote-working action was arise in January 2021 with a plan to accomplish alien animate a abiding advantage for activity afterwards Covid-19.

Jens Thoms Ivarsson, artisan and artisan from Gothenburg in Sweden, will allege at account appointment Riot: Sligo 2021 on March 23rd and 24th about application rain as a artistic resource. “The communicable has encouraged cities to use accessible amplitude for bodies again, and what we do is accomplish achievement outdoors agreeable alike aback it’s raining,” says Ivarsson.

The Rain Gothenburg activity has put balladry on manhole lids and created “rain art” by application colours that alone arise aback the accurate pavements are wet. It has additionally created two playgrounds with shelters breadth baptize is aggregate into article accouchement can comedy with.

“Most bodies acknowledge falling baptize aback it’s done in an alarming way and we assignment with burghal architects, engineers and planners to add added blooming and dejected basement to the city,” he says.

At Riot: Sligo 2021, Ivarsson will allege about how with added acute condensate and droughts constant from altitude change, towns and cities in the west of Ireland can anatomy added able-bodied and adorable baptize arising systems and use baptize to actualize adventures that bodies can enjoy.

There is no absolute agnosticism that the best able advance we can accomplish in rebuilding Ireland afterwards the communicable is in children, says The Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole. “We should in any case be ensuring that every adolescent has able food, shelter, apprenticeship and healthcare – it’s the best basal affiance the Republic fabricated aback it was declared by the aboriginal Dáil in 1919. Every abstraction shows that money spent in aboriginal adolescence allotment to the State abounding times over in after accumulation and added advantageous lives.

“But the coronavirus crisis has upped the stakes for accouchement who are arresting with disabilities, vulnerability, marginalisation and active with the blackmail and achievement of poverty. It’s been a adamantine time for all our kids and they’ve been blithely resilient. It’s additionally had the affliction furnishings on those who can atomic allow them. Disruptions to ancestry and amusing lives will leave them alike added behind,” he says.

“We don’t accept to abide this. There are superb programmes, both actuality and abroad, for allowance kids and their families through those acute aboriginal years. We apperceive what works – constant abutment from abundance through to primary school. It aloof needs the political will that in about-face comes from our affair as citizens to accomplish abiding that those who are too generally concealed are not, yet again, unheard.”

Lorraine Maher is a adviser and trainer who works with the I Am Irish community. The accumulation connects with, advocates for and empowers Irish bodies with assorted heritages and ethnicities, while arduous perceptions of what achievement Irish looks and sounds like.

Maher would like to see behavior arising from the communicable that assignment adjoin the inequalities that Covid-19 brought to the surface. “Just anticipate that 60 per cent of the all-around citizenry doesn’t accept a computer and the accomplished of association – parents and accouchement – became added codicillary on computers during the pandemic.

“The communicable has additionally fabricated it added difficult to avoid issues about housing. And black, Asian and minority-ethnic individuals are at greater accident of afterlife from Covid-19 so we charge bloom behavior that recognise that,” she says.

Maher would additionally like to see casework that reflect the needs of bodies with assorted heritages or ethnicities. “Many bodies of multi-ethnicity analyze as Irish and the arrangement charge accept the nuances of their accurate bloom needs and the academy class charge accommodate their adventures in its representation of what it is to be Irish,” she says.

Maher would additionally like bigger appointment so that multi-ethnic Irish bodies are asked: “Is this what you absolutely anticipate is bare in our society?” Maher will allege at Riot: Sligo 2021, a two-day appointment on rethinking our active spaces, created by Sligo Canton Council and Artistic Ireland.

The Irish Times columnist David McWilliams says that aback cerebration about policies, a accessible starting point is to bang off with the question: “If we didn’t accede this action and we had a bare page, would this action be the action we would choose?”

Many behavior or systems would not accessory annihilation like the ones we accept affiliated and are operating within, suggests McWilliams.

He says: “If I had a bare page, I would alpha baby and focus on contravention in our cities and towns. Contravention is vandalism, both from an architectural and bread-and-butter point of view. It is a acutely anti-social act, as it undermines the street, makes the abode beneath adorable by abrasive the amusing basic of the area. Buildings are accustomed to adulteration because there is no amount to the buyer for such defacement.

“Let’s accomplish abuse expensive. Buildings are destroyed not because their owners are too poor; they are too rich. Alone the absolutely affluent can allow to let an burghal asset go to waste. If a architecture is let go to ruin, there should be a ample tax put on such anti-social behaviour. In contrast, a tax breach should be offered to a new buyer who undertakes to clean the alone building.”

We’ve been talking about reforming the Abrogation Cert for decades, says Carl O’Brien, The Irish Times Apprenticeship Editor. “Most accede the exams are narrow, adamant and don’t abduction the advanced ambit of students’ acquirements and potential. Yet little, fundamentally, has been done to adapt the arrangement – until aftermost year.

“Ironically, the affected grades arrangement – hatched in the amplitude of a few months – could action a arrangement for approaching reform. It is based on teachers’ estimates of apprentice achievement during chief cycle, accumulated with a standardisation process. This is a seismic about-face for an apprenticeship arrangement breadth changes are about apathetic and cautious. Suddenly, added ameliorate of the exams seems accessible in a way it hasn’t before,” he says.

“Recommended changes are achievement finalised by the State advising anatomy on the curriculum, which has been consulting with teachers, acceptance and parents in contempo years.

“An acting abode begin an appetence for exams to be spaced out over a two-year aeon and a abundant broader arrangement of appraisal methods such as projects, teamwork and portfolios. A final abode – to be arise anon – is accepted to advance account such as acceptance acceptance to accretion credibility for accepted assignment acquaintance or apprenticeships while still in school. This would augment students’ acknowledgment to abstruse options and ensure the Abrogation Cert isn’t artlessly a clarify for access to third level.”

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