Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar's ‘strong view’ is that bonus payments or extra leave should not be limited to frontline workers in the health service. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Concerns rise in Government that pandemic rewards for public sector may wipe out budget resources
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Ireland to push UN on link between climate change and global conflict Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the UN Council for Foreign Relations in New York: Ireland’s diplomats are “working very hard” to get agreement on the link between climate and security. Photograph: Don Pollard/CFR/PA 3:47

Taoiseach to use Security Council presidency to mobilise international diplomacy on issue

Covid-19: Teachers call for easing of close contact rules for primary schools to be delayed Irish National Teachers’ Organisation general secretary John Boyle said the changes should be deferred ‘until reliable data on outbreaks in primary schools is available’. Photograph: Alan Betson

Thousands of children without symptoms set to return to class from Monday

Coveney and Pelosi to discuss NI issues as British row back from criticism of Biden on protocol The British government has sought to row back from a minister’s suggestion that US president Joe Biden does not understand the issues surrounding the Northern Ireland protocol. Photograph: Adam Schultz/The White House/AFP via Getty Images

US president understands Northern Ireland protocol ‘very well’, Taoiseach says

Delays in accessing abortions in Ireland are violating women’s rights, says expert Yes campaigners during the abortion referendum count at Dublin Castle in May 2018. ‘If you legalise abortion, that right to abortion must be practically available to those who are entitled to it,’ said human rights expert Máiréad Enright. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins 3:20

Major violations 'embedded' in legislation must be addressed in review, expert states

Brexit and NI protocol to the fore as Balmoral Show returns David Lester with his daughter Lily at the Balmoral Show on Wednesday. Pedigree breeders have been virtually ‘wiped out’ by Brexit, he says. Photograph: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker 3:30

At North’s largest agricultural show, ‘everyone is your brother or your friend’

State cybersecurity centre ‘underresourced and overtasked’, warns report A ransomware attack in May on the Health Service Executive’s IT systems wreaked havoc across the health service. Photograph: iStock 3:10

NCSC does not have ‘capacity’ to meet goals and faces ‘strain’ over planned EU initiatives

Three Garth Brooks concerts at Croke Park are approved by council Garth Brooks at Croke Park, Dublin, in January 2014. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Application for two additional dates has also been received by Dublin City Council

Seven people injured during brawl at Tuam cemetery A man is airlifted from a field adjacent to Tuam Cemetery after a fight broke out in the cemetery.

Gardaí arrested a male juvenile who attempted to flee the scene with a knife

Early Talent programmes designed to develop industry-leading professionals An investment in and commitment to inspiring and encouraging early talent has been a strategic decision by the MSD leadership for a number of years. Photograph: Getty Image
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Moderna vs Pfizer: Both jabs are knockouts, but one seems to have the edge Efficacy of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against hospitalisation fell from 91 per cent to 77 per cent four months after second shot. Moderna vaccine showed no decline over same period. Photograph: Rory Doyle/The New York Times

A series of studies found that one vaccine seems more protective over the long term

Sex Actually TV review: ‘I guess I was thinking … is Kayla enjoying it?’ Alice Levine parachutes into the story

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‘My partner wants to manage the building of our new home, but he is dreadful at DIY’ ‘He thinks that I am being unreasonable; I beg to differ.’ Photograph: iStock

Tell Me About It: ‘I am terrified we will waste money on what could be a vanity project’

Michael McDowell: A rail feasibility study is always good for a positive headline The people of Lucan got their very positive Luas feasibility study 10 years ago – and nothing since. Finglas and Charlestown on Dublin’s north side are due their Luas feasibility study too. Light-rail feasibility studies are due in Cork and Galway. Photograph: Getty Images

We really do need a truthful feasibility study on the many planned, shelved, semi-shelved and promised rail projects

‘Our aim is to retire somewhere warm, which we know will take planning’ Alan and Emma Henderson, with cat Fitzroy and Chihuahua Eric, at home in Drumcondra. Photographs: Conor Mulhern
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