Cybersecurity officials are monitoring the dark web for evidence of data from the HSE ransomware attack being dumped online. Photograph: iStock 3:25 Cabinet to be briefed over fears patients’ data will be ‘abused’ by cybercriminals
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Pandemic runners: Will you keep it up and resist temptation? ‘It is easier to maintain the fitness than let it drop and have to find motivation and fitness again.’ Photograph: iStock

To continue running over the summer, make it fun and explore new routes

Fintan O’Toole: Brexit explains Ireland’s sleepy response to the Indian variant UK prime minister Boris Johnson. Photograph: Matt Dunham/Pool/AFP via Getty

Ireland blindly followed Boris Johnson but failed to notice the game he was playing

Biden’s support for Israel-Hamas ceasefire seen as significant shift Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and US president Joe Biden. File photographs: Jack Guez & Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty

US reluctance until now to urge ceasefire seen as way of giving Israelis time to go after Hamas

Pressure mounts on Coalition to overhaul corporate tax rules The EU plan comes weeks after US president Joe Biden promised a 21% rate on the international earnings of American companies, well above the Irish 12.5% rate. File photograph: Getty 2:59

Plan be adopted by European Commission embraces measures long resisted by Dublin

Dark web ‘dump sites’ being monitored for HSE data after hack ‘If the criminals are attacking targets in the West, Putin is not going to stop them.’ Photograph: iStock 3:20

Expert says it is ‘highly unlikely’ gang believed to be based in Russia will be caught

Covid-19: Mandatory hotel quarantine to remain in place for some throughout summer Members of the Defence Forces await passengers in order to enforce Covid-19 mandatory quarantine measures, at Dublin Airport. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins 4:10

Government is working on plans for resumption of international travel

Easing Covid rules: ‘Our last day of trading was Christmas Eve, so this is like our new year’ Brendan Lynch in his fiddle shop, Byrne’s Violin Shop, on Parliment Street, Ennistymon. Photograph: Eamon Ward 4:10

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Up to 30% of housing schemes to be set aside for first time buyers under O’Brien plan Cabinet is expected to consider proposals from Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien to reserve 30 per cent of new new developments for first time buyers. File photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Wire 3:30

So-called cuckoo funds would be restricted from bulk purchasing in specified developments

Swearing of religious oaths is hypocritical as Ireland becomes more secular The 10th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Ireland is tomorrow, Wednesday. File photograph: The Irish Times

What if an elected president declined office due to the religious oath required by our Constitution?

Una Mullally: Huge housing protests will follow end of pandemic Housing activists outside Apollo House in 2017. Photograph: Elaine Edwards

When people can gather safely, a movement akin to anti-water charges protests will begin

As yet another shop closes, can Grafton Street survive? Tommy Hilfiger’s Grafton Street store will not be reopening today. Photograph: Damien Eagers

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Thirteen members of ‘Davy 16’ named in High Court Davy has claimed that developer Patrick Kearney lawsuit is ‘entirely opportunistic’. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Developer takes action against firm and named employees over 2014 bond deal

Is your workplace ready for a hybrid future? “Employers should have a policy in place to govern current practices but it needs to be flexible and iterated as the situation evolves,” she says.
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