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People on Henry Street in Dublin’s city centre on Thursday as restrictions put in place as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have been eased. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire Coronavirus: 35,600 people returned to work last week after receiving unemployment payment
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Una Mullally: Young people will rebuild Ireland from ashes Una Mullally: Young people will rebuild Ireland from ashes
Confronting Coronavirus The impact on the young with Psychologist John Sharry
 
Grafton Street: In the most benign scenario, household spending will drop by close to 12 per cent this year, ESRI predicts. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Consumer spending fall may cut indirect tax revenues by up to €6.7bn
Dominic Cummings: Was seen running out of Downing Street on March 27th, shortly after it was confirmed publicly that Johnson had the virus. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Dominic Cummings controversy: The unanswered questions
US president Donald Trump playing golf at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, on Saturday, the first time the president played golf since the Covid-19 lockdown. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA Dominic Cummings affair reflects Brexit exceptionalism
Simon Harris: the expert panel will report back to the Minister for Health by the end of June on how the Government responded to the pandemic in nursing homes. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin More than 1,400 nursing home healthcare workers infected in outbreaks – HSE
Prof Luke O’Neill: ‘It’s definitely beatable, Covid-19’ Prof Luke O’Neill, director of Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

‘Black Death went away, 1918 flu went away, Swine flu went away. It’s beatable, this one’

Róisín Ingle: My sister Rachael dropped me at that London clinic in a black taxi Sisters Róisín and Rachael Ingle. ‘Thank you, Rach’

Today is the anniversary of the day 66.4% of us voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment

Ken Early: Liverpool fans, Bamber Gascoigne and a close shave in Istanbul Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard lifts the European Cup after Liverpool beat AC Milan to win the Champions League final on May 25, 2005 at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. Photograph: Getty Images

Liverpool’s 2005 Champions League win was memorable for lots of different reasons

Case of Irishman allegedly murdered in Australia mentioned in court Cian English: died after falling from a balcony on Australia’s Gold Coast.

Police believe Cian English (19), from Carlow, fell trying to evade men trying to rob him

Tax on Covid-19 payment could cause 'terrible shock' late in year Marian Harkin TD: “It is likely for a significant number of people that they’ll be over the tax threshold. They’ll be paying a level of tax that they didn’t expect.” Photograph: Alan Betson

Advertising campaign needed to alert people and to encourage them to save to pay it, says TD

Traveller realities amid the pandemic: ‘I thought I’d never see a sup from a tap again’ Bridget Harty and Helen (Nellie) Reilly with five of Bridget’s nine children (Nellie’s grandchildren), Mikey Reilly (18 months), Biddy Reilly (8), Nelly Reilly (6 months), Judy Reilly (3) and Diane Reilly (6) beside one of the wagons on a halting site the family live in just off the M8 at Cashel, Co Tipperary. Photograph: Laura Hutton

Traveller families fear facilities put in place will be taken away after Covid-19 crisis ends

Test deceased for Covid-19 before postmortems, say new guidelines Just five postmortems have been carried out on Covid-19-positive patients, The Irish Times reported earlier this month. The overall number of postmortems carried out in the first four months of the year was substantially down. File photograph: Getty

Staff at substantial risk so autopsies should be restricted to mortuaries in Dublin and Cork

HSE wants to retain most private hospital capacity secured HSE operations director Anne O’Connor: says private hospitals are getting busier, with some 50 per cent occupancy of in-patient beds and 80 per cent occupancy for day cases. Photograph: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland/PA

Government paid €112.4m to private hospitals in April and first week of May

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Sinn Féin massively dominant on Facebook during general election Mary Lou McDonald: study found that Sinn Féin focused on the topic of ‘change’ in its Facebook posts over the course of the election campaign. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Party had ten times more engagement on popular site than State’s other political parties

Slain Army private’s son calls on SF to acknowledge act of murder In an interview with the Sunday Independent, Mary Lou McDonald has said the IRA’s campaign was “justified” and, had she been older, there was “every chance” she would have joined. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Mary Lou McDonald’s backing of IRA campaign ‘retraumatising’, David Kelly says

Lobbyists Zoom in to get their message across to Ministers A photograph posted to Leo Varadkar’s Twitter account showing him in a virtual meeting last month with Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella

Virtual meetings set to become the norm as Covid-19 restricts face-to-face contact

Player Wills site: Hines and APG to seek permission for 416 homes A computer generated image of the development proposed for the former Player Wills and Bailey Gibson site on Dublin’s South Circular Road. The project is being developed by US real estate group Hines and its Dutch joint venture partners, APG Asset Management.

Fast-track planning application will be made to An Bord Pleanala in the first phase of redevelopment at the seven-acre site

Expert tips: A physiotherapist on those staying at home Assess your work set up, and strive for good posture if sitting at a computer. Photograph: iStock

Aim to move at least every 30 minutes at work. Take stretch breaks

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1 Pricewatch: Left on the shelf - what we are no longer buying
2 Ireland’s coronavirus restrictions may lift more quickly if case numbers keep falling
3 Prof Luke O’Neill: ‘It’s definitely beatable, Covid-19’
4 Coronavirus: 35,600 people returned to work last week after receiving unemployment payment
5 Dominic Cummings affair reflects Brexit exceptionalism
6 Tax on Covid-19 payment could cause 'terrible shock' late in year
7 Róisín Ingle: My sister Rachael dropped me at that London clinic in a black taxi
8 Archaeologists are ‘quite sure’ they have found Red Hugh O’Donnell’s burial place
9 Dominic Cummings controversy: The unanswered questions
10 Una Mullally: Young people will rebuild Ireland from ashes
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