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Fred Johnston, poet, author, critic

ART HAS the ability to resonate with, and speak meaningfully to, situations it was never conceived to address, and there are points on Ezra Furman's new album that feel as though is speaking about the Covid-19 pandemic.

The chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs a number of public hospitals including Portiuncula Hospital, has said this week that while the coronavirus curve is being flattened, there is no room for complacency.

The chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs a number of public hospitals including Portiuncula Hospital, has said this week that while the coronavirus curve is being flattened, there is no room for complacency.

The chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs a number of public hospitals including Portiuncula Hospital, has said this week that while the coronavirus curve is being flattened, there is no room for complacency.

The Covid-19 pandemic has "highlighted the unsustainability" of the State exams "in their current form", and further exposes the "limitations of exams which place so much emphasis on a few weeks at the end of a student’s school life".

ENERVATION AND melancholy have dominated many albums released so far in 2020 - an understandable reaction to last year with Brexit, the continued presence of Trump, and climate change, as well as an uncomfortable presaging of the Covid-19 lockdown.

"I am looking forward to reunions with loved ones. It’s going to be pretty special when grand-parents get reunited with their much loved grandchildren (my own parents can’t wait to cuddle my son Seán, who they’ve been missing these last few weeks). I feel for older people in our communities during these times who love a bit of company, security, and social interaction. I’m looking forward to seeing families reconnect and out and about again.

CHRIS HAZE, the Galway singer-songwriter, has, like so many musicians during the coronavirus restrictions, and more recently the lockdown, not let it stop him from being creative and resourceful in these strange times.

GALWAY SINGER-songwriter Niamh Regan will play tomorrow's Mini Gigs at Mick’s, the new series of online concerts curated by Mick Flannery, in partnership with PlayIrish.