Collapse in US visitor numbers: Single day in May saw just eight Americans fly into Ireland

On one day in May, just eight people travelled from the US to Ireland. File picture of a hand sanitising station at Cork Airport. 

The number of people flying into Ireland through Dublin from America dipped as low as eight on a single day since the beginning of the pandemic.

In total, figures released by the Minister for Justice Helen McEntee show that just 15,607 people have flown from the US into Dublin Airport since April 24. In the same rough timeframe last year, that number was over 800,000.