Minister for Enterprise Leo Varadkar: The Government wants to ensure pubs “survive long enough to reopen when that’s possible”. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Photoss Covid-19 in Ireland: Colour-coded response set to replace phases
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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
Taoiseach Micheál Martin confirmed the new testing programmes following a two-hour meeting of the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 on Monday. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Wider Covid-19 testing aims to reach 60,000 people a week
Capacity issues in Ireland’s neonatal services are compounded by severe consultant shortages, the IHCA claims. Photograph: Barry Cronin Babies face lack of adequate isolation facilities in hospitals
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
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

Experts examine less invasive Covid-19 testing for children Currently, children must undergo the same invasive testing procedure for Covid-19 as adults. File photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

Groups looking into different approach to fevers and swabs to stop people avoiding tests

Watchdog may gain greater powers on Covid workplace inspections Fianna Fáil TD James Lawless fears that some employers might try to avoid reporting a Covid-19 case in a bid to avoid adverse publicity. Photograph: Tom Honan

Employers not obliged to report diseases to the Health and Safety Authority

Covid-19 crisis shows public places can be made more accessible Catherine Chang at home in Letterkenny, Co Donegal. Photograph: Joe Dunne

‘The physical structure of places can be changed really easily’ – wheelchair user

Standoff ensues over Minister’s unavailability at Covid committee Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly: the Oireachtas Committee’s preference was that the Minister and acting chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn attend together if possible. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Donnelly unable to attend at ‘short notice’ but happy to attend next week, spokeswoman says

Department has no plan to award bravery medals to Jadotville survivors Leo Quinlan whose father Pat was the commanding officer at the Battle of Jadotville with veteran Charles Cooley at Trinity College Dublin last year. File photograph: Laura Hutton

Minister will consider any information to support reconsideration of siege survivors’ cases

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’

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