Edel Whelan experienced every parent's worse nightmare when her 18-month-old son Jake was diagnosed with Covid-19.
Jake was the only member of Edel's family to test positive with him still experiencing symptoms because of the virus's impact on his immune system.
Edel explains that she tried to connect with other parents of children with long-term symptoms but that "everybody's attitude is 'Oh, it doesn't affect kids'."
She told RSVP Live: "He was very sick a couple of days before he tested positive. He was in hospital, but they didn't test him for COVID. They thought it was tonsillitis."
Edel and her son were sent home from the hospital with antibiotics, but unfortunately, they didn't help: "The next day his temperatures just kept spiking, they were going 39 and 40 [degrees]".
The Tipperary mum spoke to her GP about his illness; he wanted to check Jake’s condition: "He took a look at him, and his tonsils were bad, and he gave him extra antibiotics."
However, the same thing kept happening; Jake's temperature continued to spike, so Edel contacted the Tipperary Caredoc: "There were windows open, the front door open, put them in a bath, trying to get the temperature down.
"The doctor said to me the important thing is it comes down under 40 [degrees] because it affects the brain when the temperature is so high."
After this, her GP decided to test him for Covid-19, which came back positive: "When we got the diagnosis, the worst of it was nearly over."
However, this wasn't the end of their experience with Covid-19 as Jake continued to deal with symptoms: "Every two weeks we ended up in hospital. We had five hospital admissions between the end of February and April."
Jake had persistent issues with his throat: "What [doctors] were saying was Covid attacks the weakest part of the body, and for him, it was his tonsils."
By the last hospital admission, Edel says she was "nearly pulling my hair out at this stage" because of how frequent Jake became sick: "We got a stage that we could time it."
In April, Jake was referred to a specialist who prescribed a prophylactic antibiotic, which they stopped four weeks ago.
Jake got sick again last week, but Edel says that he was able to fight it himself this time, which she says "is a good sign".
After turning two in July, Edel says he is doing well right now as their "nightmare" was during the time Jake was diagnosed and April as they had 'no real answers".
The mum wants to return to normal and have Jake in childcare so he can socialise with children his age, but feels guilty and nervous if something were to happen: "I'm afraid, like a guilt thing, of putting him in and with his immune system being low, imagine if he got Covid again."
Edel is part of an online group called 'Long Covid Kids Ireland' where parents speak to each other about their children's experience with the virus; the Tipperary native says: "it was great to see that there were others, and relate to them".
Long Covid Kids Ireland run a Facebook support group for parents that have children with Post Viral illness including Long Covid.
The killing happened after two hooded men parked a car near the house on a tiny cul-de-sac in Withington where Mr Logan lived before breaking into the property at around 3.45am.
Mr Logan was in bed upstairs with his fiancee Susan Thompson, whose son was asleep in another room.
A stocky masked intruder, who, with an accomplice had got in through a kitchen window, made his way upstairs.
Mr Logan had heard the pair enter the house and made a 999 call to report a burglary.
As he was making the call one 'burglar' entered the couple's bedroom.
He fired five times from a semi-automatic pistol.
Mr Logan was hit twice at close range in the upper body and was pronounced dead in hospital at 5am.
Two bullet heads made by the Czechoslovakian ammunition manufacturer Sellier and Bellot were recovered from the scene.
The gun used was 'clean'. It had never been used in a crime in the UK before and has never been used since.
The break-in was actually a professional hit.
The gunman and his getaway driver escaped in a silver Vauxhall Vectra which was never traced, despite thousands of checks being made on that make of car.
