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Watch: news2day Friday, 14 March 2025

An early St Patrick's Day Parade in Cherry Orchard! Five years on from the Covid-19 pandemic we talk mental health and schoolkids share their memories. Plus, a polar bear gets named in Berlin!

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With St Patrick's Day right around the corner schools and groups from across the country are kicking off festivities of their own. So, Barry skipped on down to Cherry Orchard in County Dublin, who were having a community wide celebration of their own

This week we have been marking 5 years since schools closed and the country went into lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

So to talk about some of the effects it may have had, Florence was joined in studio by author and psychotherapist Dr Joanna Fortune. Plus, we chat to some schoolkids who share their memories of the global pandemic.

And, we finish in Berlin where a polar bear has been named.

Have a great long weekend and see you all on Tuesday at the usual time of 4.20pm on RTÉ2 & RTÉ Player.

And you can look back on more from the show on the official news2day website here!