Garda checkpoint between the Meath and Kildare border near the N4 motorway at Kilcock, Co Kildare, on Monday. A spike in coronavirus cases has forced the reintroduction of local restrictions in Kildare, Laois and Offaly. Photograph: Collins Photos Ireland among countries urged to consider reinstating Covid-19 restrictions
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A man walks through Naas town centre in Co Kildare. An immunologist has warned that Kildare, Laois and Offaly could face a longer partial lockdown if Covid-19 case numbers rise. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times. Lowest numbers in two weeks as one more Covid-19 related death and 35 new cases reported
Like a multi-headed hydra, the virus is crushed in one place only to arise someplace else. This is likely to be the pattern for the foreseeable future, with local outbreaks requiring targeted, short-term restrictions while states scramble to limit their spread. Photograph: Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie The Irish Times view on resurgence of Covid-19 in Europe: adapting to the new normal
An Austin-Travis County medic dons personal protective clothing, on August 5th, 2020, in Austin, Texas. Medics were entering a nursing home to transport a resident with Covid-19 symptoms to a hospital. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Internal debate a true measure of Coalition Government’s strength
Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a Covid-19 vaccine. Photograph: Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images. Russia set to begin Covid-19 vaccinations within weeks
Garda checkpoint between the Meath and Kildare border near the N4 motorway at Kilcock, Co Kildare, on Monday. A spike in coronavirus cases has forced the reintroduction of local restrictions in Kildare, Laois and Offaly. Photograph: Collins Photos Ireland among countries urged to consider reinstating Covid-19 restrictions
The patriotic cellist who refused to play Rule, Britannia! Maureen O’Carroll playing with her sisters Cathleen and Patricia. Photograph courtesy of Leora O’Carroll

Maureen O’Carroll, daughter of 1916 Rising activists, went on to play with Frank Sinatra

‘I’ve been sleeping with my girlfriend’s sister. I need help. What do I do?’ Ask Roe: ‘I love both of these women now. I’d hate to tear their family apart.’ Photograph: iStock/Getty

Ask Roe: ‘My girlfriend is a frontline worker, so her sister and I were together alone a lot’

Michael McDowell: Free the Shelbourne Four from ‘woke’ activism An empty plinth: “Now that it has been conclusively established that the statues are not slave-related at all, it seems only right that the ‘Shelbourne Four’ should be liberated from storage and allowed to resume their pedestals without wasting the courts’ time.” File photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos

Let’s get one thing straight – the banished statues do not depict slavery in any way

Talk of a Covid-19 vaccine by spring of 2021 is just too soon The good news is that the World Health Organisation estimates there are 165 vaccine programmes under way. This is unprecedented, as is the diversity of approaches to vaccine development. File photograph: Getty

Trials involving hundreds of thousands of people are needed to produce a truly safe vaccine

Fintan O’Toole: Turning a blind eye to meat plants a very old habit A midlands meat plant. It has been clear almost from the start of the coronavirus crisis here that meat plants are a major hazard. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

The obvious threat of meat plants becoming vectors of Covid-19 infection was not met with robust action

Government begins work on new medium-term plan in Covid-19 era Taoiseach Micheál Martin: said Ministers will outline which measures they intend to introduce later in the week.

Taoiseach pledges further economic supports for Kildare, Laois and Offaly

Ward at Naas General Hospital closed due to suspected Covid-19 outbreak A Covid-19 outbreak has been recorded on a ward at Naas General Hospital, with efforts now under way to trace the extent of the cluster. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Management taking steps to trace staff who had contact with patients on affected ward

Not the shopkeeper’s job to enforce mask regulation – Healy-Rae Michael Healy-Rae is fortunate as most customers at the family’s supermarket and filling station in Kilgarvan are prepared to wear face masks. Photograph: Collins Courts

‘We have enough to do to run shops’ without enforcing Government regulations, says TD

AIB concedes Covid mortgage policy was ‘regrettable’ AIB chief executive Colin Hunt described the bank’s handling of mortgage lending during the early stages of the coronavirus crisis as “regrettable”. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Chief executive admits bank’s messaging was not ‘clear and transparent’

North’s Minister for Health expresses concern amid rise in Covid-19 cases Northern Ireland reported 48 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Robin Swann says virus is a ‘continuing threat’ as Northern Ireland sees 48 new cases

UK and France working on plan to halt migrant Channel crossings People thought to be migrants are brought into Dover port, Kent, by Border Force officers. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
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Home Office minister says measures being considered to make route unviable

Former Sinn Féin member apologises for anonymous social media abuse Sinn Féin member Paul Heffernan used fake profiles to abuse businessmen, politicians and celebrities on Twitter.

Eoin Ó Broin rejects suggestion there is a ‘Shinnerbot’ phenomenon with the party

Jury deliberating Aaron Brady’s capital murder charge rises for day The jury in the trial of Aaron Brady, who is accused of the capital murder of Det Garda Adrian Donohoe more than seven years ago, is to resume its deliberations on Tuesday. Photograph: Collins Courts.

Accused convicted on Monday of being involved in robbery in which Det Garda Adrian Donohoe died

Bar on drinking of Achill Island tap water due to ‘staycations’ Dooagh, Achill Island, Co Mayo, where a “do not consume” water supplies notice is in place. File photograph: Getty

Water, contaminated with aluminium, must not be consumed by babies, residents told

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