Max de Laloubie, owner of French restaurant Chez Max, which is adding capacity for customers as existing tables are fully booked for the next three weeks. Photograph: Jade Wilson 3:22 Bank holiday reopening ‘feels like a victory’ – if you can find a table
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There will be strict limits on the numbers of fans who can attend the trial sporting events. Photograph: Inpho Spectators at trial sports events must abide by new code of conduct
Taoiseach Micheál Martin said considerable credit is due to all thosse involved in efforts to vaccinate the population. File photograph: The Irish Times Taoiseach pays tribute to vaccination programme personnel
There will be no time limit on outdoor dining. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Q&A: Restaurants and bars reopen. What other restrictions are being eased?
A customer sanitises the surface of an aerobic training machine at a gym in Milan, Italy. Gyms in Ireland reopen on Monday as Covid restrictions are eased. Photograph: Daniel dal Zennaro/ EPA 3:31 Gyms are reopening – how safe is it to use them during the pandemic?
Charlene Lydon: “I genuinely feel another Saturday night at home watching a new release film doesn’t do it for me. Everyone wants out of their house.” Lights, camera, action: cinemas reopen after five months
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Down and out in New York: How did this Irishman know my name? ‘I knew this lad. I’d worked with him’: writer Michael Fitzpatrick encounters a homeless man outside Yankee Stadium in New York

‘Thanks, Mike,’ he said. I stood there, bewildered, wondering what it was that I’d just witnessed

Ireland’s 21 best food trucks, for great outdoor dining this summer Afuera, at 777 in Dublin. Photograph: Terry McDonagh

Food trucks came into their own during lockdown. We’ve scoured the island to find the best

Northern Protestants: A gravitational pull towards the future Linda Ervine and the rest of the Irish language class pictured on the Newtownards road in east Belfast. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker

Book review: Susan McKay leaves no stereotype of northern Protestants unchallenged

US regulators approve Alzheimer’s drug from Biogen Trading in Biogen’s shares was halted ahead of the decision but shares in Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai, which it partnered with, surged 45 per cent.

Many scientists opposed approval of controversial treatment, saying it did not work

Warm weather forecast for this week with highs of 24 degrees This week is set to be humid. File photograph: Getty

People urged to protect themselves from Ultraviolet radiation as sun at its strongest

DUP members quit amid claims of purge against Poots opponents DUP leader Edwin Poots described the resignation of two of his party’s councillors in south Down as “peripheral” but said he would “continue to reach out to people”. Photograph: Getty Images

Resignations follow vote to remove Glyn Hanna as DUP South Down Association chair

EU warns ‘patience wearing thin’ on Northern Ireland protocol Loyalists took part in an anti-Northern Ireland protocol rally in Portadown, Co Armagh on Saturday. Photograph: PA

EU unhappy at delays in building border posts to check goods from Britain going into North

The fund that’s making a big difference for young people at a Dublin city farm Left to right: Claire Kearns, Coca-Cola Ireland, Kathrina Marsh, of St. Anne’s City Farm and Ecology Centre, champion Irish jockey Rachael Blackmore; and Amy Coleman of St. Anne’s City Farm and Ecology Centre at the 2021 Coca-Cola Thank You Fund launch. Photograph: Naoise Culhane
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All changed in Dublin city centre after restive weekend All quiet on the Dublin city centre front: outdoor diners in Temple Bar on Sunday. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times

Garda Commissioner blames drunken element in the crowds for days of disorder

Burning of Pride flags in Waterford investigated by gardaí Mayor of Waterford Cllr Damien Geoghegan raising one of the flags last week. Photograph: Waterford City and County Council

Mayor of Waterford criticises ‘disgusting’ act and intends to replace flags

Ireland reopening: Pubs booked out and 25,000 staff back at work Conor Potts, Anne Conway , Lisa Brannigan and Kate Daly at Slatterys pub on Capel Street on Monday. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

First day back since pandemic began for many traditional pubs as meal rule scrapped

Taoiseach pays tribute to vaccination programme personnel Taoiseach Micheál Martin said considerable credit is due to all thosse involved in efforts to vaccinate the population. File photograph: The Irish Times

Almost 55% of people have had first dose and nearly 26% are vaccinated fully, says Martin

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