Tánaiste Leo Varadkar arriving at Government Buildings for a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times Ireland ‘on track’ to ease restrictions on May 4th, says Varadkar
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Nico Bühler, his wife Justine and their 3-month-old daughter Lucille travelled back from Strasbourg. Photograph: Ronan McGreevy Air travellers rush to beat new quarantine restrictions for 16 countries
The decision will push back the scheduled conclusion of Denmark’s vaccination scheme to early August from July 25th. Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Denmark stops using AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine entirely
The number of positive Covid-19 cases among healthcare workers has fallen from 10 per cent of all cases in December, down to just two per cent. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters Covid-19 cases in healthcare staff fell dramatically after vaccines – Government
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Health sources say the rapid rollout of AstraZeneca to the 60-69-year age group would be considered, in an effort to keep momentum in the programme. Photograph: Alan Betson 3:35 Scramble to fix problems with vaccination and mandatory quarantine
Hyundai i20: Korean overtakes some of its rivals in the supermini race Impressive: Hyundai’s new i20 is on par with the class-leading Peugeot 208 in terms of driving dynamics

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Rosita Boland: I stood under a tree in case Goldilocks showed up The unsolved mystery of the porridge in the park. Photograph: iStock

A pot of steaming porridge in a Dublin park and other mysteries found while walking

‘Our mother is volatile and is causing rifts in our family’ When your mother is blaming or defensive it is most likely that she is coming from a place of fear and insecurity

Tell Me About It: ‘It is obvious that she is suffering deeply. What can we do?'

Data watchdog writes to Sinn Féin over collection of Facebook users’ information Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald. Party members were told that members should elicit more information from users so they can ‘tag them as a social media engaged and follow up with a canvass on their doorstep’, according to an internal document. Photograph: Collins

Helen Dixon’s office raises concerns over use of online data to match with home address

Gordon D’Arcy: Béibhinn Parsons is the gift, IRFU must now do the giving Ireland’s Béibhinn Parsons goes past Elinor Snowsill of Wales during the Women’s Six Nations match at Cardiff Arms Park. Photograph: Robbie Stephenson/Inpho 9:23

Professionalism is only way forward for women’s rugby and it must avoid previous pitfalls

Biden announces plan to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by September 11th Joe Biden announces plan to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan. Photograph: Screenshot/ABC
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US president says it is time to end ‘America’s longest war’ as he confirms move

Friends rally to support family of girl (3) who died when hit by bus Sophia Melnychuk (3), who was killed in the incident pictured with her parents and brothers Andre, Maria, Maxsum and Denis. Photograph: gofundme

Fundraising campaign set up for ‘devastated’ Ukrainian family living in Carrick-on-Suir

‘They could have killed me’: Man pushed off bicycle while cycling at Sally Gap When asked if he would be prepared to press charges, ‘John’ said he would, but acknowledged that he ‘would be fearful’ of the individuals involved who ‘had the mentality to do that’.

Another man leaned out of car and pushed cyclist off bike in incident which was filmed

GP temporarily suspended after allegedly saying Covid-19 is a ‘hoax’ The patient told the Medical Council the GP had a pamphlet in his office called ‘No Pandemic is Killing us’. File photograph: Chris Maddaloni/Collins

GP allegedly told patient the Government was ‘scamming’ people about pandemic

Tributes paid to ‘fantastic entrepreneur’ Galen Weston Galen Weston pictured outside Brown Thomas on Grafton Street in Dublin in 2008. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

Brown Thomas Arnotts owner Weston died on Tuesday

Permission granted for first co-living scheme following Minister’s ban An illustration of the planned co-living scheme in Phibsborough by MM Capital, owner of the Phibsborough shopping centre.

Phibsborough shopping centre will have 297 co-living units

Nphet seeks to ensure people in home quarantine are adhering to rules The hotel quarantine system has ceased accepting any new bookings until Monday as it emerged the system was reaching capacity. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Several Ministers support mandatory quarantine exemption for vaccinated people

Investigations to be launched into death of man (71) in workplace-related incident The man, who is from the area but has been named until all next of kin are notified, suffered serious head and neck injuries when he fell over 8m onto a gravel driveway into the property.

Man fell off the roof of a two-storey detached house he was cleaning in west Cork

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