A Dublin Farewell in a Covid-19 World

The pandemic ended an important chapter in my life far too soon

Samuel O'Brient
6 min readMar 12

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Image Credit — Gabriel Ramos on Unsplash

“This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection.”

As I boarded my plane at Dublin airport on March 15th, 2020 already delayed almost three hours, the words of my country’s former commander in chief continued to echo through…

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Samuel O'Brient

Financial news writer by day, political commentator by night. Former economic policy analyst. Founder and Publisher of My Side of the Aisle.