'I cried for days': The businesses that shut for good in 2020
16 min read Nearly all Irish restaurants, pubs, shops and cafes closed in 2020. But some will never reopen. Business owners talk about the year Covid-19 closed their doors for good There are few â if any â who have been unaffected by the pandemic. Lives have been taken and jobs lost. People have been effectively trapped in their homes for weeks on end, weddings have been cancelled or curtailed, church services forced online and holidays at home and abroad abandoned, sometimes at an enormous cost. Far too many people have even been denied the chance to properly mourn their loved ones...