Authors: Eilish Balfe

Walkie talkies and ‘Dancing with the Stars’ – maintaining IG friendships through COVID

April 7, 2022 |  Eilish Balfe

One of our regular TOY blog contributors is Eilish Balfe, from Happy Days Early Years Service, Ireland. In this blog she describes the creative strategies the children and residents in the local nursing home have been using this past year to maintain their friendships.

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Happy days: innovative ways to promote IGL during COVID-19 in Ireland

February 1, 2021 |  Eilish Balfe

Europe is amid the third wave of the COVID pandemic. Luckily, there are many very committed early years and care professionals working tirelessly to connect generations in creative and imaginative ways during this the third Lockdown. Read Eilish Balfe’s blog about how Happy Days Early Years’ Service in Ireland has been maintaining intergenerational relationships in the village community of Ratoath, in Ireland over the past year.

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