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Maura Ryan said: 'Our last electricity bill was €417 for two months, and that is a summer bill. So I am just dreading the winter'

She continues: “It was not a struggle before Covid. “Our health insurance is costing €141 per month for the four of us and I have switched policies to a cheaper one," she said. I am switching off the switch of the kettle, the toaster. It has hospital cover but that is it.” She is a patient at the Mercy University Hospital’s Long Covid clinic. The couple’s son Dylan is starting college this year in Cork but their daughter Amy is hoping to get a place in Tipperary next year.