U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr has donated a whopping $100,000 to the Navajo Nation's coronavirus relief fund.
The generous Dubliner is one of thousands of Irish people who have dug deep to help the Native Americans in a show of solidarity for donations made by the Choctaw Nation during the Famine.
The Navajo Nation is the US jurisdiction with the most COVID-19 cases per capita, exceeding New York and New Jersey
The Choctaw Nation raised $170 dollars - around $5,000 today - for starving Irish families during the Famine in 1847.
Over 25,500 Irish donors have contributed over $870,000 to the relief fund since May.
Relief fund founder Ethel Branch said: "We feel real kinship with the Irish, who have a shared legacy of colonization, and we are truly grateful for Mr Mullen’s donation and all donations that have come from our Irish brethren.
"Go raibh maith agat and ahéhee’! Someday we hope to repay you for these beautiful and meaningful acts of solidarity made during our time of great need."
The veteran sticksman's generous contribution will fund a week’s worth of deliveries of food and water to around 1,000 Navajo and Hopi households with high risk, vulnerable, or COVID-positive family members.
The relief fund seeks to provide each family with two weeks’ worth of food so they are able to stay home and avoid exposure for a meaningful period of time in an effort to flatten the curve for the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe.
A GoFundMe campaign has already raised over $4 million for the struggling families.
