A lone biker at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. Berlin defines a risk area as anywhere with a new infection rate above 50 per 100,000 of population in the last seven days. Photograph: iStock Germany to declare Dublin a Covid-19 risk area due to high number of coronavirus cases
Leo Varadkar is fourth Minister currently restricting movements after negative Covid-19 test Leo Varadkar is fourth Minister currently restricting movements after negative Covid-19 test
Covid-19 infection rate falls in Dublin for first time in two weeks Covid-19 infection rate falls in Dublin for first time in two weeks

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Prof Sam McConkey addresses the Oireachtas Covid-19 Committee by video link. Photograph: Oireachtas TV Health experts have insufficient information to establish where people get Covid-19, committee hears
Holy Cross School, Strabane. Photograph: Google Street View School with 1,500 pupils closes after Covid-19 cases confirmed
A teacher wipes a classroom door handle before students return to school amid the coronovirus pandemic. File photograph: iStock Covid response leaves no surprise that tensions are rising across school system
You can ask friends, colleagues, and former employers which soft skills come to mind when they think of you. Photograph: iStock How to identify and develop soft skills in a pandemic
A TV screen in St Stephen’s Tavern displays a feed of British prime minister Boris Johnson making a statement in Parliament in London on Tuesday. From Thursday, hospitality venues across England will have to close by 10 pm. Photograph: Bloomberg Q&A: How do new Covid-19 restrictions in the UK differ from Ireland?
The pick of the Dublin restaurant meals to go The Whole Hog takeaway from barbecue specialist, Baste.

There are many options available, from a Michelin-star meal to fancy fish and chips

Motherhood can be motivation and inspiration for setting up a business Pictured is Samantha Stuart from Carrick-On-Suir, owner of Pretty Bowtique, with her family, husband Alan, daughters Abigail and Aoibhinn and son Alex. Photograph: Patrick Browne

These three women, through having children, successfully identified gaps in the market

Irish company to test vaccines on volunteers deliberately infected with Covid-19 Irish company hVivo is to run the world’s first Covid-19 human challenge trials – in which healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with coronavirus to assess the effectiveness of experimental vaccines.

Open Orphan’s hVivo unit will conduct world’s first human challenge trials of several vaccine candidates

Gordon D’Arcy: Losing such a big game shines a very harsh light on certain players Leinster players after the defeat to Saracens in the quarter-finals of the Heineken Champions Cup at the Aviva Stadium. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho

Mark McCall’s Saracens side played for each other with a devastatingly simple gameplan

Nursing home ordered to pay €150,000 to care workers sexually harassed by 93 year old The €50,000 awards were made up of €30,000 for the distress caused by the sexual harassment and €20,000 for the victimisation and penalisation by the nursing home.

Man at centre of case had dementia and behaviour was ‘alcohol-fuelled’, WRC found

Fifteen sex offenders in NI to have convictions rescinded due to accidental error in law Prosecutors are now considering whether fresh prosecutions should be brought against the 15 defendants.

Offences involved 17 victims, 11 of whom were children at the time

School with 1,500 pupils closes after Covid-19 cases confirmed Holy Cross School, Strabane. Photograph: Google Street View

Holy Cross College in Strabane, Co Tyrone shuts as infection rates rise in Northern Ireland

Former Spurs youth player jailed over thefts to repay ‘feared’ Limerick gang Denis Igoe (26), with an address at Station Court, Ennis, Co Clare, pleaded guilty at Limerick Circuit Court to 25 counts of theft.

Denis Igoe (26), who suffered career-ending injury, developed a cocaine addiction, court told

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Kerry teenager charged with harassing former footballer Ian Wright Former Arsenal and England player Ian Wright . Photograph: Nick Potts/PA Wire

Patrick O’Brien (18) also accused of sending ‘grossly offensive, obscene and menacing’ message ’

Low Pay Commission formally recommends 10c rise in national minimum wage About 340,000 staff across the public service are set to receive a two per cent pay rise in October. Photograph: iStock

Letter sent to Government after unions withdrew from the commission

Plan for 10,000 homes announced in Limerick ‘gateway’ project An illustrations from the plans to redevelop Colbert Station Quarter in Limerick.

Innovative housing development would use Colbert station as central transport hub

Belevedere College student and St Kilian’s German school take Leaving Cert cases St Kilian’s German school in Dublin took a case claiming the standardisation model lead to an “extraordinary” downgrading of results in German and other subjects there.

High Court judge says ‘lead’ case concerning standardisation of grades will be heard next month

The simple, easy way to access government stimulus package schemes The scheme can assist businesses in dealing with the economic turbulence which lies ahead. Photographs: Getty Images
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7 School with 1,500 pupils closes after Covid-19 cases confirmed
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