Aaron Brady (29) denied the capital murder of Det Garda Adrian Donohoe. Photograph: Collins Courts. Aaron Brady found guilty of capital murder of Det Garda Adrian Donohoe
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A man walks through Naas town centre in Co Kildare. An immunologist has warned that Kildare, Laois and Offaly could face a longer partial lockdown if Covid-19 case numbers rise. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times. Lowest numbers in two weeks as one more Covid-19 related death and 35 new cases reported
Taoiseach Micheál Martin confirmed the new testing programmes following a two-hour meeting of the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 on Monday. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Wider Covid-19 testing aims to reach 60,000 people a week
Capacity issues in Ireland’s neonatal services are compounded by severe consultant shortages, the IHCA claims. Photograph: Barry Cronin Newborns may be at risk due to pressure on hospitals, warn consultants
Police officers ride their bikes through the Southbank district of Melbourne on August 12th, 2020. Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images Coronavirus: Australia suffers deadliest day of pandemic
Like a multi-headed hydra, the virus is crushed in one place only to arise someplace else. This is likely to be the pattern for the foreseeable future, with local outbreaks requiring targeted, short-term restrictions while states scramble to limit their spread. Photograph: Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie The Irish Times view on resurgence of Covid-19 in Europe: adapting to the new normal
Supergarden sweeps to the sea in Balbriggan for €745k The garden rolls down to a sandy beach

Beautiful garden puts the finishing touch to enterprising horticulturist’s charming four-bedroom home

Brianna Parkins: Staycationing just means paying through the nose to sleep in someone else’s uncomfortable bed Staycation: I get to pay through the nose to sleep in someone else’s uncomfortable bed somewhere a few hours’ drive away. Photograph: E+/iStock/Getty

Holidays are for drinking cocktails coloured unnatural blues and reds next to a foreign pool

Covid-19: Restrictions an attempt to prevent State going back to ‘beginning’ A general view of Naas in Co Kildare, one of three counties where movement restrictions have been imposed to try slow the spread of Covid-19. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times.

Varadkar expects funding for businesses in Kildare, Laois and Offaly to be announced soon

Michael McDowell: Free the Shelbourne Four from ‘woke’ activism An empty plinth: “Now that it has been conclusively established that the statues are not slave-related at all, it seems only right that the ‘Shelbourne Four’ should be liberated from storage and allowed to resume their pedestals without wasting the courts’ time.” File photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos

Let’s get one thing straight – the banished statues do not depict slavery in any way

Cyrus Christie recalls racial abuse from a child at Ireland training Ireland’s Cyrus Christie says he was racially abused after Ireland training. Photo: Ryan Byrne/Inpho

The Fulham fullback said group of children were with a teacher who said nothing

Sunny spells forecast with high temperatures of 26 degrees Portmarnock Beach, Co Dublin: Met Éireann has forecast high temperatures for Wednesday. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times/File

Warm weather on Wednesday will be followed by unsettled and humid conditions

New Zealand considers freight as possible source of new Covid-19 cluster New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to media during a press conference at parliament on Wednesday in Wellington after Covid-19 restrictions were reintroduced across the country after four new cases were diagnosed in Auckland. Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images.

‘Going hard, going early with lockdown is still the best response,’ Jacinda Ardern says

UK economy slumps into deepest recession on record after 20% drop in GDP There were signs of a recovery in the month of June alone when gross domestic product grew by 8.7 per cent from May

Pandemic hits world’s sixth-biggest economy harder than other developed economies

Seán Moran: It won’t take much before cancelling All-Ireland looks like a solution Croke Park director Peter McKenna said that to limit crowds at the stadium to 200 would be play them to all intents and purposes ‘behind closed doors’. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho

Covid-19 has cut through previously untouchable importance of intercounty game

Kamala Harris an assured performer but past record faces scrutiny California senator Kamala Harris, who has been selected by Joe Biden as his Democratic Party running mate in November’s US presidential election. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images
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Critics say Joe Biden’s running mate took insufficient action against police misconduct during legal career

'They won’t find any spot of fire': Bolsonaro denies existence of Amazon blazes An area consumed by fires sits scorched near Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil at the weekend. Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has said reports of forest fires are a ‘lie’. Photograph: Edmar Barros/AP.

Official government data shows thousands of fires surging across rainforest region

Madigan’s primary goal is Ireland caps after switch to Ulster Ian Madigan is determined to reignite his Ireland career after joining Ulster. Photo: Andrew Surma/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Dubliner is now 31 and knows he’ll face a lot of stiff competition at his new province

Standoff ensues over Minister’s unavailability at Covid committee Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly: the Oireachtas Committee’s preference was that the Minister and acting chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn attend together if possible. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Donnelly unable to attend at ‘short notice’ but happy to attend next week, spokeswoman says

An Garda Síochána criticised for Irish-language law non-compliance ‘I would estimate that I have more dealings with An Garda Síochána than with any other public body as regards the implementation of recommendations.’ Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Insufficient number of gardaí in Gaeltacht stations with language skills, watchdog finds

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