Gardaí at the house in the Llewellyn estate, Ballinteer, south Dublin, where the bodies of a mother and two young children were found on Wednesday. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire Gardaí contact husband as mother and two children found dead at south Dublin house
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There are 352 Covid-19 patients receiving treatment in Northern Ireland hospitals with 44 in intensive care units. File Photograph: Alan Betson Nine more deaths and 840 new Covid-19 cases in Northern Ireland
Dr Kevin Kelleher, assistant national director of the HSE said contact callers can get ‘a fair degree of abuse’ on occasion, and he has witnessed tracers ‘visibly wilting’ as a result. HSE apologises to 2,000 people asked to do their own contact tracing
The CSO’s Jim Dalton said: “The Covid-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on the Irish Labour Market in 2020.” Photograph: Aidan Crawley Nearly 12% living in jobless households as result of pandemic
The new recruits were asked in a letter to bring their own laptops due to a delay on HSE equipment. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Covid-19: Contact tracing recruits asked to bring own laptops to work due to HSE delay
Level 5 travel restrictions do not apply in the case of domestic violence or when at risk from harm. Photograph used is staged. Photograph: iStock Calls to gardaí for domestic abuse and violence up 18% this year
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Michael McDowell: We must check if this Covid-19 lockdown is really necessary ‘The Oireachtas is not being allowed to do its job either. There are people who want to prevent voting divisions on the basis that they cannot be safely conducted within Leinster House.’ Photograph: Getty Images

Was the Government panicked into a second national coronavirus lockdown?

Suzanne Lynch’s US Election Diary: Trump seeks to hold onto midwest states Supporters watch a video of US president Donald Trump while waiting for his arrival at a rally at Capital Region International Airport in Lansing, Michigan. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Polls suggest president trails Democratic rival Joe Biden in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin

Cork shootings: Gardaí find lengthy apparent suicide note on one of the dead men A view of the farmhouse in Assolas, Kanturk, northeast Co Cork, where the bodies of Tadhg O’Sullivan and his two sons, Diarmuid and Mark, were found on Monday in what is being treated as a suspected murder-suicide. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Investigators are examining whether attack was planned by two of the deceased

Young homeless mother may have been dead in tent for a number of days The deaths bring to over 50 the number of homeless people who have died so far this year, compared to a total of 37 at this point in 2019, according to chief executive of the Inner City Helping Homeless charity, independent councillor Anthony Flynn. File photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times

Woman was one of two homeless people found dead in Dublin over weekend

Dutch lockdown extended ‘well into’ December as Covid-19 cases surge Hugo de Jonge, Dutch minister of health, arrives for the plenary debate in the Lower House about the developments surrounding the coronavirus, in The Hague, The Netherlands on Wednesday. Photograph: Bart Maat/EPA

Second wave of virus spreading quicker than first in EU’s most densely populated country

Sinn Féin repays £30,000 given to ineligible NI offices in Covid-19 scheme An unsolicited payment was made to the office of former Foyle MP Elisha McCallion, who is now a member of the Seanad. File photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Party says grants ‘unsolicited’ and repaid but controversy has arisen over when money paid back

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Ten accused of sharing pictures of boys who murdered Ana Kriégel Ana Kriégel was 14 years old when she was murdered in 2018. Photograph: via RTÉ News

Six men, four women charged with breaching order barring identification of accused

Man jailed for five years for killing 7ft 5in Belarusian man A man has been jailed for killing 24-year-old Dmitry Hrynkevich.

Victim grew up ‘in pain, marginalised, picked upon by a certain minority’ for his height, court heard

Gordon D'Arcy: Ireland must go after victory by frightening France into mistakes Ireland’s Hugo Keenan in action against Italy in their Guinness Six Nations match at the Aviva Stadium last Saturday. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho

We have the chance to banish ghosts of 2019 and play one hell of a game against France

Johnson’s Brexit Bill set to be blocked by House of Lords Boris Johnson pulls down his face covering to take a drink as he sits with hospital workers during his visit to Royal Berkshire NHS Hospital in Reading on Monday. Photograph: Jeremy Selwyn/AFT/Getty Images
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Joe Biden has warned PM if elected he will not sign trade deal unless certain clauses removed

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