Clodagh Gill sits outside her guesthouse on Inismór on the Aran Islands overlooking the spectacularly situated graveyard below and the lagoon beside the small airfield.
Her cheerful demeanour hides the deep anxiety most on the islands feel about the current Covid-19 emergency. On the one hand, the business she has spent a lifetime building up is in limbo, but she also shares the anxiety of many islanders about opening up again to visitors. "There are those people … that think, if there's a cure, or if there's a vaccine, then yes.
Do open. And they are worried. They're generally worried for themselves", she said. She thinks of her mother and aunt, both cocooning and vulnerable.