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A priest in Ireland toured the countryside in a vintage popemobile on Holy Thursday, April 9. offering blessings to people amid the coronavirus pandemic and the country’s nationwide lockdown, a video shows. Father Malachy Conlon, who works in the Cooley Parish, in County Louth, can be seen waving from the back of a popemobile used by Pope John Paul II when he visited Ireland in 1979. As of April 9, there have been 7,329 COVID-19 cases and 228 related deaths on the island of Ireland. Strict quarantine measures have also been introduced requiring people to stay within a two-kilometer radius of their home and not to travel during the Easter holidays. Credit: Lily Finnegans Pub via Storyful