Picnics in Glendalough in mid-March, tailbacks near major parks and just a handful of patients waiting in hospital emergency departments.
The landscape of Ireland has changed utterly. The usual bustle on Dublin's Grafton Street has almost been replaced by tumbleweed.
It’s the same around the country, towns and cities virtually silent. To borrow from Joyce, silence is general all over Ireland.
Welcome to the new normal. It has now been 21 days since we had the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland.