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A man wearing a face mask walks past a mural depicting a coronavirus Covid-19 cell in Dublin on Saturday. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/EPA Coronavirus: 14 more deaths as list of essential workers published by the Government
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Waste collection is one of the services deemed essential by the Government during the coronavirus crisis. File photograph: Alan Betson Coronavirus: Government publishes list of essential services
Paramedics are seen attending an incident in Belfast as the spread of coronavirus continues. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Reuters Stormont introduces ‘extraordinary powers’ after 15th Covid-19 death
Minister for Health Simon Harris said the first of upwards of ten flights carring PPE, including surgical masks, gowns and eye shields for health service workers, would arrive into Dublin on an Aer Lingus flight from China on Sunday afternoon. Photograph: iStock Irish flight arrives in China to collect PPE as stocks begin to run low
Don Marcello Crotti, blesses the coffins with Don Mario Carminati in the San Giuseppe church in Seriate, Italy. Photograph: Antonio Calanni/AP Coronavirus: Italy’s death toll passes 10,000
‘Ross, from this morning, you’re going to be home-schooling Honor.’ I laugh out loud Honor: ‘What the fock could you possibly teach me?’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Home-schooling? Me? But I’m a complete focking dunderhead’

Brushing up on your high culture? Forgive my scepticism A scene from Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s film The Platform, a recent Netflix release – “a gloomy shocker set in a prison that operates like practical moral conundrum”.

The crisis has allowed people loudly signal rediscovered their commitment to highbrow classics

Mental health: How to mind yourself during the shut-down If you find it difficult to self-correct, you may need to talk to someone. Photograph: Getty Images

Part of the stress is that we have lost structure to our days, so try to set up a new routine

Late Late Show with Miriam O’Callaghan: The most surreal primetime TV I’ve ever watched Miriam O’Callaghan

Scraggly Hozier gave a preview of what everyone’s hair will look like post-shutdown

Coronavirus: Older people who leave houses may be asked to go home - Harris In every local authority, community supports are being mobilised to assist older people and medically vulnerable people remain at home - or ‘cocoon’. Photograph: iStock

Local authority to lead community support service for people cocooning

Driving and NCT tests suspended as Minister looks to extend validity Shane Ross and the Road Safety Authority RSA) confirmed on Saturday that the National Driver Licence Service (NDLS), the National Car Testing Service (NCT), as well as the Commercial Vehicle Testing System are suspended until further notice. Photograph: iStock

Shane Ross says people ‘need not worry’ but focus on abiding by coronavirus measures

Clocks go forward one hour on Sunday morning The sun setting in Galway Bay. The clocks go forward on Sunday morning, providing an additional hour to daylight in the evening. Photograph: Getty Images

‘Is there anything to be said for setting the clocks forward to 2021,’ asks Colm Tobin

David McWilliams: We need to totally reimagine economics The ECB has opened up the taps and indicated it will do whatever it takes to prevent a recession becoming a depression. Photograph: Lisi Niesner/Reuters

Our Central Bank has unforgivably abdicated in this crisis, precisely when it was needed

Beauty, skin and nutrition insiders reveal the tips they swear by for healthy skin Each guest received a goodie bag of La Roche-Posay products worth over €50. Photographs: Conor Mulhern
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To celebrate La Roche-Posay’s Skin Health Month, The Irish Times readers gathered at The Dean Hotel in Dublin for a panel discussion with a host of skin, nutrition and beauty experts

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Coronavirus: Italy’s death toll passes 10,000 Don Marcello Crotti, blesses the coffins with Don Mario Carminati in the San Giuseppe church in Seriate, Italy. Photograph: Antonio Calanni/AP

World round-up: Fatalities surge in UK while Spain reports 832 further deaths

Coronavirus: No funeral Masses to be held in Clogher diocese Funeral Masses will no longer be held, while baptism and marriages will not be celebrated “until further notice” in the diocese of Clogher. Photograph: iStock

Bishop announces bodies of the dead will be taken directly to the burial ground

Coronavirus: Galwegians adjust to a new traffic-free reality Michael Herron at Blackrock in Salthill, Galway. ‘You do feel the general anxiety. Personally, I feel I am dealing with it okay.’ Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy

On a sunny Thursday in Salthill’s near-empty promenade, the mood is quiet and terse

Trump considering mandatory quarantine in New York as coronavirus spreads President Donald Trump stops while walking to Marine One to depart the White House, Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP
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A lot of states who don’t have a big problem have asked me about it, US president says

Pat Leahy: Five reasons a government of national unity is a bad idea At a superficial level, the GNU sounds great: it is the political equivalent of the round of applause for the healthcare workers. Photograph: Alan Betson

Having everyone in government would make decision-making harder, not easier

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