Minister for Health Simon Harris with kitchen staff Tracy Bailey and Sandra Wynne at the National Council for the Blind of Ireland’s Iona Resource Centre in Dublin on Wednesday. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Covid-19: Further easing of restrictions likely but little change to roadmap
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The approach taken by the Mater was intended to protect confidentiality and respect the dignity of staff being tested, according to the HSE report. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Privacy measures delayed reporting of 250 Covid-19 cases among Mater staff
Sweden’s state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell said his lighter-touch lockdown had “absolutely” claimed too many lives. Photograph: Pontus Lundahl/AFP Europe continues cautious reopening as Covid-19 inquiries loom
Northern Ireland’s Health Minister Robert Swann: said co-ordination between the two jurisdictions was being worked on by the Executive office in the North and by the Taoiseach’s office. Photograph: Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye/PA WireN Swann says cross-Border cooperation on tracing is ongoing
Nursing Homes Ireland has claimed the lack of testing for patinets transferring from hospitals contributed to the spread of coronavirus in residential settings. Photograph: Erin Schaff/The New York Times New care home residents must be tested for Covid-19 under rule change
Members of the Irish Defence forces at a Covid-19 testing facility at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire More than 200 people contracted Covid-19 while in hospital for other conditions
Cleaning up public transport emissions should be priority Prof Frank Kelly: “Ideally I would like to see any vehicles in our large city centres be either eletric or hydrogen.”

Leading Irish researcher says emissions cheating by car companies was flagged in 2010

William James: in praise of the Irish goodbye William James helped found pragmatism, a philosophy of free will, action, individuality and authenticity. It was and remains a way of thinking that almost necessitates one’s abrupt exeunt from the crowd.

The Irish-American founder of modern empirical psychology and philosophy knew how to ghost a party

Newton Emerson: Brussels playing games with Irish sea border In practice, almost every grocery item arriving into Northern Ireland from Britain is in the care of a handful of high-street names and is routed through one of just half a dozen warehouses.

Hard line on checks at odds with EU commitment to peace process

Mortgage approvals tumbled in first full month of lockdown – BPFI The number of mortgages approved fell by 41.1 per cent compared to March and was down by 46.5 per cent compared with April 2019. Photograph: iStock

Warning of challenging period ahead for housing market due to economic uncertainty

Migrants better educated than Irish but more likely to be jobless, study shows Minister of State for Equality, Immigration and Integration David Stanton: ‘This gives us a better understanding of who is more likely to face barriers to integration.’ File photograph: Nick Bradshaw

ESRI research shows migrant groups from Africa are most disadvantaged in job market

Why Facebook wants the EU to decide the limits of free speech Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. File photo. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty

Europe Letter: Brussels set to update digital laws amid debate over acceptable content

Independents offered Healy-Rae style deal to support coalition Green Party leader Eamon Ryan. The Greens have made it clear that the 7 per cent annual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is a red line for the party in government formation talks. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Arrangement would involve local deals and access to ministers but no ministerial posts

All pupils will not be able to return to class at the same time – INTO A teacher distributes individual student stationary packs ahead of the return of students to a school in London this week. The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation has warned against a rush to reopen schools. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Large class sizes will make it more difficult to accommodate students, says union leader

Retailers ‘asked to work almost like hospitals’ during reopening phase Richard Barron, managing director of Pamela Scott, outside the store in Frascati Shopping Centre in Blackrock, Co Dublin, said the Irish retail model has been ‘broken’ by Covid-19. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Screens, queue management and isolation rooms among measures planned by stores

Strict rules on queuing as Dublin shops prepare to reopen Dublin City Council’s Covid-19 queuing rules are designed to prevent overcrowding on the city’s shopping streets, particularly pedestrianised areas such as Henry Street and Grafton Street (above). Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Owners must ensure queues do not exceed length of shopfront under council protocols

Pete Taylor takes personal injury case over Bray gym shooting Pete Taylor: he received gunshot wounds to his chest and arm in the 2018 shooting. Photograph Nick Bradshaw

Boxing coach is seeking compensation for injuries he sustained in the 2018 shooting

President expresses ‘greatest heartbreak’ at clashes with protesters in US A protester shows a picture of George Floyd from her phone to a wall of security guards as she and others demonstrate near the White House, in Washington, DC, on Wednesday. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP

Response should be to eliminate racism and inequality everywhere, Higgins says

Little evidence of a ‘guiding hand’ behind US protests Protesters kneel to demonstrate against the death of George Floyd in Washington, DC. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/Getty Images
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