Kodaline’s Mark laid low by virus
KODALINE guitarist Mark Prendergast has revealed he tested positive for the coronavirus.
The musician described how symptoms left him with ‘no energy’, and spoke about the stress of waiting to find out if the virus had been passed on to his family.
Speaking on RTÉ 2fm, Prendergast said he believes he caught Covid-19 two weeks ago at Heathrow Airport in London. He said: ‘About ten days ago, I felt this very, very dry cough. I was in my parents’ house... It was quite obvious it was a new cough. It was very, very, very dry. I’d never had a cough like it before... I was a little bit panicked. I just got up and left.’ It was confirmed he had the virus after he attended the drivethrough facility at Croke Park.
He added: ‘Maybe three, four days later I got a fever that lasted for four or five days. Overall, my experience wasn’t as bad as it can get. So I’m kind of lucky.’
He said of being at his parents’ house: ‘I didn’t give them a hug, just got up and left. I went home.’
The member of the popular Irish band said it was ‘like a bad flu... you have no energy – you’re sleeping for about 12 hours each night’.
Prendergast said he took paracetamol, which helped, and drank around five litres of water a day.
At one point, after several days on the sofa, he went for a run, which he said was a ‘terrible idea’.
He said: ‘I haven’t seen my dad since March 12. Nobody in my circle has shown symptoms yet. It’s a horrible waiting game really to see if people around you are sick.’