A grief-stricken son has described his woe at not being able to say goodbye to his mother who died after contracting coronavirus.
Ciaran O'Rourke knew his 69-year-old mother Ann was going to die at the hands of the horrendous Covid-19 as soon as she was diagnosed on Thursday night.
But the grandmother-of-five died at her care home on Sunday evening, Dublin Live says. "We were told on the Thursday night that she had contracted the virus.
By Saturday, her situation had gotten much worse and there was a fear that she might not make it," Ciaran, aged 36, said. "She passed away at 5:05pm on Sunday.