Covid-19: Virus toll soars as ten more people die

The number of people who have died having contracted Covid-19 in Ireland has more than doubled to 19, after ten new deaths were confirmed.

The sculpture in Tralee Town Park of poet William Pembroke Mulchinock and Mary O’Connor, who inspired his love song, ‘Rose of Tralee’, now wearing masks. Picture: Domnick Walsh

- with reporting from Daniel McConnell, Paul Hosford, and Liz Dunphy