Sex in the pandemic: ‘A lot of people are feeling pressurised to meet with people, get on with it and have sex in a car. They’re told by others on apps not to be such a goody-two-shoes...’

How has lockdown affected the nation’s collective libido? From casual hook-ups to forced celibacy and everything in between, we find out how Irish people have been having sex in the time of Covid

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Tanya Sweeney

Mention to anyone that you are writing about Irish people’s sex lives during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the jokes aren’t far behind. “That’ll be a short piece!” notes one colleague. “What’s that again?” asks a friend.