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Acting chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn (above) Prof Philip Nolan and Dr Cillian de Gascun are due to attend the Oireachtas special committee on Covid-19. File Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin NPHET officials to join Donnelly at Oireachtas Covid-19 comittee
Students complete a temperature check before entering their first day of the school year for elementary classrooms at Public School 102 in Queens. New York City. Photograph: Sarah Blesener/The New York Times Coronavirus: New York City to impose fines for refusal to wear face covering
There’s a lot to be learned from the ongoing effort to eradicate polio. Photo: A health worker administers polio vaccine to children during a polio vaccination door-to-door campaign in Peshawar, Pakistan, 22 September 2020. Pakistan is one of the last two countries, along with Afghanistan, where polio is still endemic. EPA/ARSHAD ARBAB Bill Gates: A three-part plan to eliminate Covid-19
The HSE received an average of 48 reports a month concerning food establishments in March, April, May and June. Photograph: iStock Hundreds of reports over possible Covid-19 breaches in food outlets – HSE figures show
Acting chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn at a Covid-19 update press conference at the Department of Health on Tuesday. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin Recurring Covid restrictions will kill off many viable businesses
Michael Harding: The woman at the checkout said my mask made me look constipated Michael Harding: ‘I never touch the dishwasher.’ Photograph Nick Bradshaw

I confessed that for a few days I had felt like a washing machine with a blocked hosepipe

‘Why am I the one always left alone?’ People always keep me out of plans, including my cousins. I have no friends right now. Photograph: iStock

Tell Me About It: I exaggerate things in my mind and often end up being hurt by others

Michael McDowell: There needs to be greater oversight of the Covid-19 response The Dáil has been advised to ‘remove itself to the sepulchral vastness of the Convention Centre in Dublin [above] where it is almost impossible to conduct meaningful debate’. Photograph: Maxwell Photography/PA Wire

The State powers are largely exercised with little or no democratic accountability

Gordon D’Arcy: If South Africa moves up north, it could all go south Tendai Mtawarira of the Cell C Sharks is tackled by Malcolm Marx (L) and Tyrone Green (R) of the Emirates Lions during their Super Rugby clash in April. Photo: Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images/Getty Images

With Springboks on Pro14 turf, you can be sure there will be unintended consequences

Economic slump less serious than feared but jobs crisis looms Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe said economic conditions this year were ‘exceptionally difficult’. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Export sector still strong but Department of Finance predicts slower growth

Bloody Sunday families look to judicial review after setback Mickey McKinney, whose brother William was killed on Bloody Sunday, in the Bogside on Tuesday. Photograph: Margaret McLaughlin

‘As long as we are able to walk, we’ll go after them,’ pledges brother of killed teenager

Gardaí to share locations of student house parties with NUI Galway authorities Gardaí were called to a site close to the river Corrib at the Engineering Building on the NUI Galway campus

Large gatherings of students in city centre and at parties condemned as ‘insanity’

Targeting Government and regulators core responsibility of Michael D’Arcy's role Former minister of State at the Department of Finance Michael D’Arcy resigned from the Seanad to take up the post. File photograph: The Irish Times

Ex-minister did not inform ethics watchdog of move to association of investment managers

Let's be creative and use this budget to stimulate the economy Financial analysis: the Government faces the fallout of the pandemic, a no-deal Brexit and the uncertainty of a US election as it prepares to frame Budget 2021. photograph: Getty Images
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€9.1bn capital project budget for next year may increase, Minister signals Michael McGrath told Sinn Féin spokeswoman Mairéad Farrell to ‘reserve final judgment until you see the actual allocation on Budget day’. File photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons /Irish Times

SF express concern that if pandemic lasts two to three years allocation is ‘real cut per capita’

Consumer sentiment still ‘overwhelmingly gloomy’ despite September rise A near-empty Grafton Street in Dublin in April. A modest rise in consumer spending plans in September may have been helped by discounting and the drop in VAT. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Irish people ‘struggling to make sense’ of economic picture, finds KBC Bank Ireland

Invest in more social housing to avoid Covid-related supply shock, says ESRI The Economic and Social Research Institute predicts that in the short term, as State pandemic income supports are unwound, demand will decrease in the housing market. Photograph: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

Once pandemic ends, elevated savings could potentially cause ‘a surge’ in demand for housing

Bus Éireann to suspend Dublin to Belfast service in November Bus Éireann bus on Dublin to Cork route arrives in Cashel, Co Tipperary. Photograph: John D Kelly

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3 Miriam Lord: Another dog’s dinner as D’Arcy jumps on the gravy train
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7 ‘Insane’ gathering of hundreds of students in Galway condemned
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10 Economic slump less serious than feared but jobs crisis looms
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