Queueing continues at a vaccination centre at the St Mary’s Hospital grounds at the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on Saturday. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire Covid-19: 60 more deaths, 3,231 new cases as Holohan warns too many still breaking rules
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Paramedic with the National Ambulance Service Stephen O’Neill administering the Moderna vaccine to Eleanor Rossiter-Wallace of GPN Faythe Medical Centre, at the vaccination centre in Phoenix Park in Dublin on Saturday. Photograph: PA Almost all GPs receive first dose as mass vaccination centres open
Used vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. File photograph: Sebastien Bozon/AFP/Getty Deaths spur Norway concern at Covid vaccine safety for vulnerable elderly
Covid-19 probably arose in a horseshoe bat. But the biological and ecological steps it took to reach humans remain obscure. Photograph: Conor Kelleher Q&A: Covid-19 new variants in Ireland - everything you need to know
Naomi Osaka arrives in Australia ahead of the year’s first Grand Slam. Photograph: Morgan Sette/EPA 47 players isolating before Australian Open after Covid cases on chartered flights
Senior managers in Dublin hospitals have been told that they will not receive any further first vaccine doses ‘for the coming week or two at least’. Photograph: Vladimir Zivojinovic/AFP via Getty Images Covid-19: Nursing homes to be prioritised for vaccination for 10 days amid supply shortage
Irish GPs fighting third-wave Covid: On the front line of the world’s worst outbreak

Doctors in some of the worst-hit areas are noticing marked change in early symptoms

Is paying someone to clean your house the last word in middle-class privilege? Nowadays, there are an estimated 67 million domestic workers worldwide

Tanya Sweeney: In Ireland, we have a funny relationship with the idea of house cleaners

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Honor has been, like, homeschooling me’ “So aren’t you even curious?” Honor goes. “In terms of how you did in the Christmas exams that I set for you?”

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The Irish Times Winter Nights festival: Full line-up revealed

Gabriel Byrne, Nicola Sturgeon, Emma Dabiri and more to appear at the Irish Times festival

Pete Lunn: We need to tackle Covid-19 differently after this lockdown. Here is how A view of Dublin city during the Covid-19 lockdown. Photograph: Tom Honan

We must get used to acting more slowly, carefully monitoring infections and compliance

David McWilliams: What a Doc Martens boot can teach us about the wealth gap The private equity company plans to float Doc Martens at a valuation of $4 billion. This means that a finance company will, in the space of a decade, make more than 12 times its original investment.

The company that made boots for punks and skins is floating on London’s stock exchange

Deaths spur Norway concern at Covid vaccine safety for vulnerable elderly Used vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. File photograph: Sebastien Bozon/AFP/Getty

Official reports of allergic reactions rare as governments rush to roll out vaccines

Nationwide curfew in France as Covid death toll reaches 70,000 French police officers staff a checkpoint on the Champs Elysees in Paris to check drivers’ authorisation to be outdoors beyond the 6pm curfew this evening. Photograph: Ian Langsdon/EPA

Anyone travelling to France from outside EU as of Monday must show a negative test

Rathcoole Co Dublin is within city reach but has all the calm of the country There is plenty to keep you occupied in this southside village ad if you want, town is just a hop and a skip away. Illustration: Aoife Dooley
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Special needs schools: Families ‘deeply upset’ at reopening stand-off Advocacy organisations AsIAm, Down Syndrome Ireland, Family Carers Ireland and Inclusion Ireland criticised the lack of clarity being provided to children with additional needs and their guardians. File photograph: Getty

Department and Fórsa union issue contradictory statement over reopening plans

Church ‘more complicit than most’ in mother & baby scandal - McAleese Mary McAleese has said she was “surprised” by the “speed and humility” of the apologies offered by bishops and religious orders following the publication of the report by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes this week. File photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Ex-president ‘surprised’ at speed of apologies offered by bishops and religious orders

Abbvie wins appeal against €500m-plus Irish stamp duty US pharmaceuticals giant AbbVie has won an appeal against an unexpected €500 million-plus Irish stamp duty bill. File Photograph: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty

Bill resulted from move by Minister of Finance to slap 1 per cent stamp duty on so-called scheme of arrangement takeover structures

Uganda’s Museveni declared winner of presidential poll, rival alleges fraud Uganda’s Museveni declared winner of presidential poll, rival alleges fraud. Photograph: Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty

Wine accuses Museveni of fabricating results, calls poll ‘most fraudulent election in the history of Uganda’

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