On a gloriously warm and sunny Tuesday morning in early June, the city’s premier attraction opened its doors for the first time in almost three months. “They are just so excited,” Ms Leonard said, gesturing toward the children roaring like lions at her feet. Her two-and-a-half year old son “has been asking five times a day every day when he can go back to zoo. This is a gateway to normality.”And then she was through that gateway and into the zoo. “The zoo is part of people’s lives and there is this amazing sense of ownership,” he said.

Source: The Irish Times June 02, 2020 12:15 UTC