Ordinarily, daily ticket sales at the pantomime held each year in Ireland's National Stadium are in the hundreds. On Monday, just six tickets were sold.
The latest Government advice is that parents should restrict their children's indoor socialising for the next two weeks. At one point on Monday, it seemed like the advice was for pantomimes to go ahead – but for children to stay at home.
The gymnasium in the stadium, located in Dublin's south inner city, is normally home to Ireland's high-performance boxing team.
But, right now, the boxing ring has been cleared away and the only sparring is of the verbal kind. On Tuesday, Sammy Sausages and Buffy – played by Alan Hughes and Robert Murphy – ran through lines with Jake Carter and Johnny Ward