Taoiseach Micheál Martin addresses the nation on Friday night. Hotels, retail, hairdressers, gyms to open next Tuesday, followed by restaurants and gastropubs on Friday
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Ireland should ’aggressively suppress’ virus transmission and reduce cases to zero, says group of scientists Covid-19: Level 5 restrictions ‘should stay until each county has zero cases’
In the week up to Friday, November 20th there were 100 deaths where Covid-19 was a factor. File photograph: The Irish Times North’s hospitals record highest number of Covid-19 weekly deaths
Milford in Co Donegal has the highest 14-day incidence rate of coronavirus cases in the State. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Coronavirus search: How is Covid-19 spreading in your locality?
A truck unloads dead mink into a mass grave in a military area near Holstebro, Denmark. Photograph: Morten Stricker/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images. Decaying mink resurface from mass grave in Denmark after being culled over Covid fears
People walk past The Kitchen Bar at Victoria Square shopping centre in Belfast. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire North enters two-week circuit-breaker lockdown
Chinese vase valued at €800 sells for €1.2m at Irish auction The 54cm tall Chinese Celado, which had been valued €800-€1,200s

Chinese Celado vase sets Irish record for art object sold at public auction

What will €1.25m buy in the Caribbean, Scotland, Sweden and Rathfarnham? Scotland, Peeblesshire

Take 5: From a Bahamas estate to a Dublin five-bed and a Scottish period house

Brexit talks: UK seeks to strip fishermen of 80% of fish caught in EU waters Serious differences remain between the two sides over the most contentious issues of how to share fish stocks, how to arbitrate any future disagreements, and how to ensure fair competition between companies. Photograph: iStock

Negotiations intensify with time running out to avoid damaging no-deal exit on January 1st

Anti-alcohol zeal of public health experts peppers reopening debate Just 22 of the 9,062 Irish virus clusters identified so far have been attributed to public houses. Photograph: iStock

Caveat: Does the virus have an alcohol problem or is it the other way round?

Public health doctors overwhelmingly back strike action over pay and contracts The doctors voted by 94 per cent in favour of industrial action. File photograph: iStock

Nature and timing of any industrial action to be decided on Monday

Ex-TD seeks orders against Facebook and Twitter over allegedly defamatory posts Frank O’Rourke alleges untrue posts were made on Facebook pages in early February, on pages associated with the Celbridge area, about his family life and his personal financial matters. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons / THE IRISH TIMES

Frank O’Rourke claims posts were untrue and designed to show he was unfit to serve Dáil

Patricia Carrick ‘dignified’ in fight for and against cancer, funeral told Patricia Carrick’s husband Damien and family members during her funeral at Mervue in Galway on Friday. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy.

Children will carry ‘spirit’ of mother with them after her at 51 from cervical cancer

Ryanair customers may face charges of up to €100 to cash refund cheques Ryanair is issuing cheques to Irish customers who booked now-cancelled flights through a travel agent. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP

People will have to go to bank branch to cash cheques drawn on a German bank

Conversion tactics: making the most of unused space in your home “Garage conversions make great teenage dens, home offices or playrooms, where you don’t need huge amounts of space,” says architect Denise O’Connor. Photograph: Getty Images
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Homeless man found dead in laneway had suffered major injuries to the head Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Inquest told Claudiu Robu was formally identified as a result of matching a DNA sample from his brother, Emmanuel

Businesses can show ‘Dunkirk spirit’ by taking new direct ferry to France A DFDS ferry on a British Channel route. The Danish shipping line is to operate a new daily service between Rosslare Europort and Dunkirk that will bypass the UK. Photograph: Charly Triballeau/AFP

Danish shipping line to run daily service to French port from Rosslare

Austria bids farewell to Fucking after a millennium of misunderstandings A road sign in the village in western Austria. Photograph: Alexander Klein/AFP via Getty Images

Village of 100 residents near Salzburg – a modern selfie hell – to be renamed Fugging

Child (4) stranded on Luas platform when separated from mother, court hears The boy’s mother had been unable to exit the Luas until the next stop at Blackhorse and get another Luas back to her terrified son. Photograph: Google Street View

Mother forced to go one stop down line after driver closed doors between her and her son

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1 Hotels, retail, hairdressers, gyms to open next Tuesday, followed by restaurants and gastropubs on Friday
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3 Brexit talks: UK seeks to strip fishermen of 80% of fish caught in EU waters
4 Exiting Level 5: What will reopen and when will it happen?
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6 Businesses can show ‘Dunkirk spirit’ by taking new direct ferry to France
7 Covid-19: Level 5 restrictions ‘should stay until each county has zero cases’
8 Child (4) stranded on Luas platform when separated from mother, court hears
9 Chinese vase valued at €800 sells for €1.2m at Irish auction
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