Checks on agri-food shipments arriving into Northern Ireland from Great Britain have been in place at the North’s ports since the end of the Brexit transition period on January 1st. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire EU forced to take legal action as UK ‘cannot be trusted’ on protocol, says Coveney
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Taoiseach Micheál Martin said a range of new supports specifically aimed at young people impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic are being considered. File photograph: The Irish Times Taoiseach acknowledges frustration at pace of Covid-19 vaccine rollout
Northern Ireland’s Minister for Health Robin Swann defended the decision not to include indicative dates in the North’s plan to emerge from lockdown . Photograph: Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye/PA Wire North vaccination plans to be scaled up as slots being offered to over 60s
The number of patients in hospital with Covid-19 has continued to fall. Photograph: Alan Betson Number of people in hospital with Covid-19 falls to 472
Grafton Street in lockdown: The main draw on the public purse was spending on the Government’s Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS) and the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP). Photograph: Gareth Chaney/ Collins 4:05 Pandemic widens gap in public finances as crisis enters second year
Sheila King, who runs Lucan Lodge Nursing Home, says she will remember the third wave of this pandemic with a great deal of sadness. Photograph: Alan Betson 3:19 Possibility of visits offers ray of hope to nursing homes
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Finn McRedmond: Wokeness is dying, another victim of the pandemic New York comedian Catherine Cohen, whose career seems to have survived calls for her cancellation. Photograph: Craig Barritt/Getty 5:40

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Stephen Donnelly should not need a security fence around his house Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly. Laura Hutton / The Irish Times.

The Dáil has become a centre of acrimony which is both unbecoming and unfair, and will ultimately disconnect people from politics

Loyalist paramilitary groups withdraw support for Belfast Agreement A loyalist sign in Lurgan, Co Armagh, about the Belfast Agreement amid tensions over the Northern Ireland protocol. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Letter to Johnson says opposition to Northern Ireland protocol should remain peaceful

Davy board to search for other potential cases of wrongdoing Davy House on Dawson Street, Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins 1:38

Brokerage begins review of Central Bank findings that it breached market rules on conflicts of interest

‘Unusually high’ proportion of young males researching far-right topics Moonshot CVE found more than 9,000 individual searches from Irish users for far-right topics during the six-month period which it categorised by gender, age and location. Photograph: iStock 4:07

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Building a resilient workforce to help shape a ‘new better’ “Some people will flourish by physically working alongside co-workers again, others may want to remain in their home office,” says Laura Phelan, director, human capital solutions at Aon. Photograph: Getty Images
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Face masks unlikely to be made mandatory for primary school pupils The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation has called for compulsory masks for third to sixth class pupils. Photograph: Andy Buchanan / AFP 2:29

Children should not be discouraged from wearing masks if they wish to do so

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Local authority housing rules discriminate against minorities – report Some policies and practices used by local authorities are leaving minority applicants at risk of rough sleeping, says the MLRC. Photograph: Laura Hutton/The Irish Times

Traveller and non-Irish families being ‘unlawfully’ turned away, says MLRC

Rapid shift to remote working highlights advantages of cloud technology Over half of the Irish employers who participated in a recent Microsoft-commissioned survey said they will move more of their organisation to the cloud post-pandemic. Photograph: Getty Images
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