With the vaccine programme in Ireland finally cranking up, more older people are feeling more comfortable leaving their homes for the first time in a long time.
This return to a form of normality can be quite emotional, and Ryan Tubridy, for one, admitted he ‘nearly cried’ when he saw an elderly man out walking.
The Late Late host and radio presenter opened up about the incident on his RTE Radio One show. ‘I nearly cried the other day,’ he confessed. ‘I was walking along by the sea and I saw an old man and I could tell he hadn’t been out for ages just like so many people hadn’t been out.’ Ryan then set the scene. ‘He was standing and he was looking out at the sea and he had his sandals on and his jacket on and he got dressed up for his walk
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