The €9bn Irish tourism and hospitality sector, which employs 260,000, is now staring into the abyss.
As the stock market crashes, supermarket shelves are fleeced, streets deserted and millions placed under lockdown, officials across the globe are racing to put a halt to the spread of Covid-19.
Wandering through Dublin's city centre on Sunday afternoon was an undeniably surreal experience.
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Maybe it's a feature of the kind of company I keep online, but I was struck on Sunday morning when I opened social media by the number of priests who were offering live-streamed Masses for all those affected by Covid-19. Some were solitarily preaching to a webcam in big barracks of churches. Others had made...
Paddy Power owner Flutter Entertainment is assuming that Covid-19 restrictions will remain in place until the end of August, resulting in the cancellation of events such as Euro 2020 and leading to a hit to its earnings of between £90m and £110m (€99m and €121m).
Primark's sales across Europe have seen heavy declines due to lockdowns and other measures introduced in countries including Italy, Spain and France because of the coronavirus.
