Live: Storm Ophelia clean up - Luas trams resume as two thirds of ESB customers have power restored Live: Storm Ophelia clean up - Luas trams resume as two thirds of ESB customers have power restored

137,000 without power, 48,000 have no water, Varadkar may make it an offence to ignore severe weather warnings

Debris is seen on the road in Kinsale on Monday after Storm Ophelia swept across the country. A massive clean-up operation is under way on Tuesday. Photograph: Dave Brennan Storm Ophelia clean-up: Power restored to two thirds of customers

Luas tram services resume earlier than expected this evening after repairs at Red Cow

The late Michael Pyke and his partner Nollaig Hennessy. Storm Ophelia: Tributes to ‘gentle giant’ killed while cutting fallen tree

Families mourn three victims who died on Monday in Tipperary, Louth and Waterford

Storm Ophelia could make way for ‘Storm Brian’ this weekend Fallen block a road in Cork on Tuesday morning following Storm Ophelia. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

Potential for new storm to trigger yellow warning at weekend

Varadkar may make it an offence to ignore severe weather warnings People at the diving board in Salthill, Galway as Hurricane Ophelia hit on Monday. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

Storm Ophelia: Dara Fitzpatrick’s sister criticises ‘idiots’ ignoring storm warning

Man Booker confidential: judge reveals how winner is picked Helen Mort: When you engage in a judging process, all you have to hold and trust is words on a page and all they evoke in you as a human being, not just as a judge

In the end, we asked ourselves what each book was risking, writes 2017 judge Helen Mort

Mexican restaurant in Donegal wins best takeaway in Ireland

More than 20,000 vote for favourite food, with special category for the spicebag

Dr Michael Shine accused of indecently assaulting six teenage boys Retired surgeon Michael Shine (85), of Wellington Road, Dublin 4, arriving at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Tuesday. Photograph: Collins Courts.

Retired surgeon (85) goes on trial denying charges from former patients

Abortion pills for sale online mean ‘genie is out of the bottle’, says Boylan The constitutional ban on abortion is “unworkable” because of online access to abortion pills, Peter Boylan, the former master of Holles St and chairman of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Ireland, will tell the Oireachtas committee on the Eighth Amendment. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

The constitutional ban on abortion is ‘unworkable’, Prof Boylan will tell the Oireachtas committee on the Eighth Amendment on Wednesday

Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding to stand trial on rape charges Ireland rugby player Paddy Jackson, arrives at Belfast’s Laganside Court. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Judge in Belfast rules that rugby players and two other men have a case to answer

Bill Clinton warns against global rise of ‘tribalism’ Bill Clinton speaking at DCU, where he was conferred with an honorary doctorate. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Former US president decries nationalistic tendencies in a world that’s ‘back in the soup’

Martin O’Neill delighted to face Denmark away in first playoff The results of the Fifa football World Cup 2018 European play-off draw is displayed on the big screen in Zurich. Photograph: Getty Images

Northern Ireland drawn against Switzerland with first leg in Belfast

Man alleged to have fathered child with daughter loses costs case One of the man’s daughters alleged she bore a child by him and other grandchildren of his were the children of her sisters.

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1 School holidays ‘unlikely’ to be cut to make up for Storm Ophelia closures
2 Storm Ophelia could make way for ‘Storm Brian’ this weekend
3 Varadkar may make it an offence to ignore severe weather warnings
4 Twenty-seven trees on historic Cork road ‘should be replaced’
5 Storm Ophelia: Tributes to ‘gentle giant’ killed while cutting fallen tree
6 Mexican restaurant in Donegal wins best takeaway in Ireland
7 Man alleged to have fathered child with daughter loses costs case
8 ‘We are not just on the scrap heap’. Going back to work after kids
9 Martin O’Neill delighted to face Denmark away in first playoff
10 Abortion pills for sale online mean ‘genie is out of the bottle’, says Boylan
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