"Nothing is going to bring Mammy back to me but I need answers and I need closure." Loretto Gaughran is fighting back tears as she tells me about her mother who passed away just over seven weeks ago, after contracting Covid-19.
The sun is shining and the birds are singing when we meet at her home yet there's a darkness hanging heavy in the air. Covid-19 has visited this house and left an indelible mark.
Originally from Co Monaghan Lily McArdle is one of the 1,518 people who have died in Ireland from this deadly virus. She would have celebrated her 90th birthday on 8 June.
She was one of the first residents of Dealgan House in Dundalk, Co Louth to die from Covid-19. She had been living there for the last 18 months. "She loved Dealgan House.