The coronavirus has had a devastating impact on the US economy, with 10 million Americans applying for unemployment benefits in the last two weeks alone.
Like in Ireland, the pub and restaurant trade has been hit particularly hard. Tipperary man Mark Kirwan has been forced to close his two Irish pubs in Washington DC but his day job as a police officer has never been busier, enforcing the lockdown currently underway in the US capital. "We've had a huge issue with crowd control.
Unfortunately, the general population hasn't taken heed regarding what they should and shouldn't be doing in relation to the coronavirus," he told RTÉ. "A lot of manpower is being deployed on the streets trying to disperse crowds that have gathered." Mark said there