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When Susan Moriarty drew the curtains in her home at around 8.30am yesterday her eyes were met with a disquieting scene.
It was time for the school-run, when the main road into the small estate where she lives would normally be busy with carloads of children being ferried to school.
Overnight, it seemed, something had dramatically changed everything.
“It was like ghost estate,” she told the
Irish Independent.
“Normally you would see the cars zipping in and out but there wasn’t a car on the road. There was no movement. I went through the town a few hours later and it was dead and the businesses were more or less shuttered. It was soul-destroying.”