Taoiseach Micheál Martin is to travel to Chequers, the British prime minister’s country residence, for a lunchtime meeting, Government Buildings has confirmed. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA NI protocol and Troubles issues to dominate summit talks between Taoiseach and Johnson
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Three teenagers arrested on Thursday are released without charge

Washington appears as steadfast as ever in support of Israel US president Joe Biden: Said on Thursday that he did not think there had been an overreaction by Israel towards the Palestinians. Photograph: TJ Kirkpatrick/The New York Times
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Martin and Johnson to meet tomorrow amid NI protocol tensions Taoiseach Micheál Martin greets British prime minister Boris Johnson at Hillsborough Castle, Belfast last August. Photograph: Brian Lawless/AFP via Getty Images

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Academic on €154,000 salary with no work to do accuses president of Maynooth Maynooth University president Prof Philip Nolan, who is also chairman of Nphet’s modelling group on Covid-19. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins

Professor says Philip Nolan acted as ‘judge, jury and executioner’

Milford and Newbridge top table for highest rates of Covid-19 A walk-in Covid-19 test centre in Balbriggan. File photograph: Alan Betson

Area in Co Donegal has an infection rate almost four times the national average

Covid-19: Over 2m vaccine doses administered as 456 more cases are confirmed One in seven adults are now fully vaccinated while 37 per cent have received one dose, the HSE said. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times

No further deaths reported as Holohan urges vaccinated to ‘safely resume lives, mindful of guidelines’

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