A family living on the Great Blasket Island say it's easy to forget about the coronavirus with little change to their lives in Europe's most westerly point.
Billy O'Connor, 31, his partner Alice Hayes, 28, and their two kids Joey and Harry, four and five, can live their lives with little chance of picking up the virus.
Except for a few odd trips back to their home in Dingle for supplies, the family of four are cut off from the mainland.
Billy told the Irish Mirror: "We've been out here now for the last three or four weeks except the odd trip back into Dingle for supplies, it really is lovely here with just us the kids and the dog.
"You would definitely forget about the whole coronavirus out here we are so removed from it all.
"We haven't seen a huge difference to our lives just working away doing a few jobs that need to be done, there are a few hundred sheep out here grazing too so looking after them as well."
Unlike the rest of the country, there's no checkpoints on the Great Blasket Island, no gardai and with the islands area a little over 4km it's not actually possible to break the 5km essential travel limit.
Billy added: "We do have our house in Dingle that we do have to go in and out of every week or so but really I don't think there's any real way a virus could be spreading amongst us out here.
"I do bump into people when we head back for a day who stop me and say we are so lucky to be out here, and we are but I suppose even Dingle is lucky in it's fairly removed from the whole thing."
The only real difference with the coronavirus is the lack of tourists which is the family's main income.
Billy said: "Usually at this time of year we would be flat out, under a good bit of pressure, bringing people in and out of the island, getting groceries, cleaning and picking up rubbish. We're nearly getting tired of just doing maintenance at the moment.
"Our business is such a small one that we are used to running everything tight, we will be down this year but it won't be disastrous.
"Hopefully this doesn't go on for too much longer because the main industry here and around Dingle and these parts is tourism so it could destroy it." Just before the coronavirus surfaced, Billy and Alice advertised a job to come out to the island and run it which got thousands of responses and to which they are "still getting emails daily".
But the pair did find a suitable couple from Dublin who hope to get started as soon as this all ends.
Mr O'Connor said: "Once things calm down we'll be delighted if they are still able to come along and get going."
