This time last year, Co Kildare emerged from an extended lockdown – a restrictive quarantine on a population of over 220,000 people sparked by an outbreak of Covid-19 in just four meat factories.  The result of the outbreaks was the first local lockdown in Ireland, with enhanced restrictions for Laois, Offaly and Kildare for a two-week period. The measure was later extended again specifically just for Kildare, where there had been the highest number of Covid-19 cases in meat factories. For people in the three counties, there was anger, pubs were closed and staycations to other parts of the country…

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