It wasn’t so much a question as an aphorism, one of those remarks Irish people come out with so naturally. Today the plains are flooded, the fields are lakes, the sky is grey, and a clouded mist sticks to you like depression. It feels like I’m on the depression express. Is it any wonder depression filled the mental hospitals while our abusers handed out plenary indulgences? As the actor and writer Stephen Fry says: “Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather”.

Source: Irish Examiner February 21, 2026 01:14 UTC