‘Cloud has been lifted’, says grandmother reunited with grandchildren

Grandmother Camilla O’Brien said it felt like “a cloud had been lifted” as she was able to hug her grandchildren Chloe and Jessica for the first time in over a year on Monday.

“Today was the first day we got hugs and kisses, it was different today. I think the kids were thrilled, you could see it in their faces. The way they ran to us and said ‘granny, grandad!’,” Ms O’Brien said. “Like everybody, we all started with Zoom group meetings and Zoom quizzes but mostly phone calls... some of the older grandkids might stand at the gate and say hi’.

Ms O’Brien said all of her grandchildren are located in Dublin except for her 2½-year-old grandson, who is in the UK and whom she hasn’t seen since late 2019.“We’re lucky in that we have the park or the beach or we can go up to walk to UCD [University College Dublin], so we’ve been able to get out and about but it gets very confined after a while. You’re thinking where can I go now that’s somewhere different or who can you see, somebody different to talk to,” she said.

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