Ireland

Ireland is a secondary location within The Suffering. The country had around 80% of the population surviving the plague, with 15% dying from the plague and 5% from murder. Unlike the United Kingdom, it is reported that over half of the population survived by hiding in abandoned castles.

Apocalypse
After the Outbreak of Boston in the United States, Ireland called for all of its citizens to return to the country by July 2021 where they will go under quarantine for 2 weeks. A week after this announcement, they closed their border with the United Kingdom and closed almost all of their airports and ports. Statistically, Ireland would've seen around a 30-45% population survival if they did not undergo these procedures.

Unlike other predictions of a location of an outbreak in Ireland, the first city to have a public outbreak was Waterford in July 2021. Around 50% of the city survived with 40% dying to the plague and 10% to other incidents. Almost all other cities reported outbreaks in August 2021, apart from Galway which reported an outbreak in September 2021 that killed 45%.

It took almost a year for the Irish peoples to start to liberate their island. Unsurprisingly, the last liberated area was Dublin, in which the military took 4 weeks to liberate to cause as little destruction as possible. The Irish government and Taoiseach was re-established in mid 2023 and elections re-started in 2024 after a disagreement on whether to help other European nations to liberate their lands started between the parties. In late 2024, the country was one of the first to be classified as 'back to normal'. In January 2025, Northern Ireland was given back to Ireland as a 'thankyou' from the British for helping them liberate their lands.