Kodaline’s lead guitarist Mark Prendergast has opened up about his experience of contracting coronavirus and urged Irish people to take it seriously.
The musician spoke on 2FM’s Breakfast with Doireann & Eoghan and asked people to ditch the ‘be grand mentality’ to the virus.
He thinks he contracted COVID-19 coming through Heathrow Airport as he explained: ‘I am guessing I may have picked it up two weeks ago in Heathrow because I was in London… About 10 days ago I felt this very, very dry cough.’ ‘I was in my parent’s house and it was quite obvious that it was a new cough.
I just kind of got up and said to my Da, “I am going to go home, just in case!”‘ Discussing his symptoms Mark said: ‘I have never had a cough like it before.
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