Gardaí found customers consuming alcohol in a small number of pubs where there was no evidence of food also being consumed and no evidence of receipts to show that food had been sold. File image: The Irish Times. Twenty-six pubs could be prosecuted for breaches of Covid-19 regulations
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Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar at Dublin Castle: Mr Varadkar said the stimulus package would be ‘radical and far-reaching’. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Government targets young workers in economic plan
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Tara Winthrop Private Clinic, in Swords, Co Dublin, was one of the first nursing homes in Ireland to experience a Covid-19 outbreak. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill ‘People are dying’ – private nursing homes’ plea for State help
Clonakilty Community Hospital: Last year, it had 43 residents with dementia out of 103. It was among more than 400 facilities that had to battle coronavirus. Photograph: Daragh Mac Sweeney/Provision Covid and non-Covid dementia residents shared room at care facility
Britain’s prime minister Boris Johnson and chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak: There is media speculation about the political threat Mr Sunak represents to Mr Johnson. Photograph: Jessica Taylor Rishi Sunak is the Beethoven to Boris Johnson’s brass band
On your bike: Good-value areas to buy a home a short cycle from central Dublin Cyclists by the Grand Canal in Dublin. The numbers cycling in the city have surged in recent years. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

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More people seeking treatment for cocaine use than for cannabis Cocaine has become increasingly popular among men with higher disposable incomes as the economy recovered in recent years. Photograph: iStock

Number of children entering drug treatment has risen significantly, HRB data reveals

Mother and five children sleep in car while seeking shelter Roseanne Joyce with three of her five children – Johanna Rose, David and Danny – in the car they live in outside the offices of Tipperary County Council in Nenagh. Photograph: John D Kelly

Roseanne Joyce advised by Tipperary council to return to parents’ crowded Nenagh home

‘They’ll kill me’: New transcripts detail last moments of George Floyd’s life A file image of a memorial for George Floyd near the site where he was detained and died with the knee of a police officer on his neck in Minneapolis. Photograph: Joshua McFadden/The New York Times.
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Government targets young workers in economic plan Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar at Dublin Castle: Mr Varadkar said the stimulus package would be ‘radical and far-reaching’. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Jobs stimulus plan will include enhanced Covid-19 restart grant scheme – Varadkar

Miriam Lord: Docklands Dáil’s lack of drama has TDs longing for Leinster House Taoiseach Micheál Martin arriving at the Convention Centre in Dublin to take Leaders’ Questions at the Dáil session. Photograph: Alan Betson

Ministers few and far between at Convention Centre – taking social distancing a bit too far

Newton Emerson: Funeral raises questions over how much SF president McDonald is in charge The warming relationship between DUP First Minister Arlene Foster and her Sinn Féin opposite number Michelle O’Neill is back to frosty formality. Photograph: Kelvin Boyes/PA

North’s parties are tired of constantly second-guessing shadowy forces behind Sinn Féin

Bringing workplace wellbeing into the home Davina Ramkissoon, Zevo Health: “We saw an increasing number of requests for financial wellbeing seminars in addition to one-to-one consultations with a financial adviser to review personal finances.”
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Statue of US first lady Melania Trump ‘torched’ in Slovenia (Left) A file photo taken on July 5, 2019 of what conceptual artist Ales Zupevc claims is the first ever monument of Melania Trump, set in the fields near the US first lady’s hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia and (right) a photo taken on July 7th, showing the charred remains of a tree trunk that once acted as a plinth for the wooden statue. Photos by Jure Makovec/AFP via Getty Images.

American artist commissioned piece to foster a dialogue about political situation in his country

Seán O’Casey’s house to be bought by Dublin City Council The house had gone on the market in 2018 for €450,000 but was recently offered for sale for €625,000 despite its condition having deteriorated in the intervening years. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

Council has revived plans to use playwright’s house for homeless accommodation

Hiqa queried HSE’s room-sharing in Cork hospital A concerned relative contacted the HSE claiming that infection controls were not being followed at Clonakilty Community Hospital.

Covid and non-Covid residents with dementia shared room at Clonakilty care facility

Intensive canvassing before Paschal Donohoe’s Eurogroup bid Contenders for the post of president of the Eurogroup: (from left) Luxembourg’s finance minister Pierre Gramegna, Spain’s minister for economic affairs Nadia Calviño and Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe. Photograph: Getty Images

Minister for Finance seeks election in contest with Luxembourg and Spanish counterparts

Putting climate change at the top of the agenda Garrett Monaghan, head of projects, Ireland, Pinsent Masons: “We are now at the point where economic resilience and climate-driven policies can accommodate and complement each other.”
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