People dine outdoors in Temple Bar, Dublin as Ireland begins to reopen. Photograph: Tom Honan 4:04 Summer rise of Covid-19 Delta variant will not affect reopening, Government expects
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Besides antigen testing, Trinity College has also conducted Lamp tests, which are a rapid PCR-type test. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill 3:33 More than 200,000 third-level students to return to campus from September
More than half of young LGBT+ people surveyed in 2021 said they were not fully accepted in their home environment. Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto 3:09 Covid-19 exacerbates mental health risks for LGBT+ youth
Staff demonstrate a Covid-19 antigen test earlier this year at the RocDoc testing facility at Dublin Airport. File photograph: Laura Hutton Antigen tests detect Covid in just half of asymptomatic cases found via PCR
Margaret Buttimer is pictured leaving Bandon District Court on May 24th after receiving a suspended sentence for refusing to wear a face covering. Woman (66) pleads guilty to breaches of Covid-19 regulations
Both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford/AstraZeneca jabs are just as good at coping with the Delta variant first identified in India as the Alpha variant first identified in Kent, England, Public Health England data suggests. Photograph: Kentaro Takahashi/Bloomberg. Covid-19 vaccines ‘highly effective’ in stopping Delta variant hospitalisations
Michael Portillo’s ‘Tory meets Paddy’ history lessons are no longer a novelty Historian Michael Laffan (left) with Michael Portillo at Kings Hall Belfast. Partition 1921 is to be broadcast on RTÉ One at 9.30pm on Monday, June 14th.

Partition, 1921 TV review: The politician-turned-railway guru has reached the end of the line

An Irish Gaeltacht summer: My first kiss, made all the sweeter by Maybelline Kissing Potion I Kiss Deliciously: a 1981 advert for Maybelline Kissing Potion

It's another year of missing out on a rite of passage for my children. I’ve such fond memories

Fintan O’Toole: ‘Sausage wars’ are a distraction from Johnson’s porky pies Boris Johnson confronted Emmanuel Macron at the G7 summit over the weekend: ‘How would you like it if the French courts stopped you moving Toulouse sausages to Paris?’. Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images

Reversion to old postures of English belligerence is absurd but dangerous

Irish scientists make discovery on dangerous Covid clotting ‘Our research helps provide insights into the mechanisms that cause severe blood clots in patients with Covid-19.’ Illustration: iStock 2:15

Work could help in developing treatments to prevent life-threatening complication

State to address High Court cases against mother and baby homes report The Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Tipperary, which was a mother and baby home operated by the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary from 1930 to 1970. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire 3:29

Government to outline opposition to cases including one taken by Philomena Lee

Q&A: How will gardaí be able to demand passwords in investigations? Photograph: iStock

New Bill gives gardaí power to compel suspects reveal passwords to digital devices

Pyrite and mica: Thousands set to protest over defective homes The mica effected home of Tina and Harry Crumlish, in Culdaff, Co Donegal. Photograph: Joe Dunne 6:33

Owners of mica-impacted houses in Donegal, and Mayo to demonstrate at Dáil

Savills asks house viewers for evidence of mortgage approval, savings and family gifts A computer-generated image of the Somerton scheme at Lucan in west Dublin.

5,000 house hunters registered to view 44 homes at the Somerton scheme in Lucan

Changes in vehicle ownership trends among Gen Z due to pandemic The coming of age of the Gen Z group is coinciding with widespread availability of car sharing, services which have a predominantly young customer profile.
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Can Dundrum Town Centre hold on to its place as Ireland’s retail mecca? Dundrum Town Centre: when the mall opened, in March 2005, a reported 75,000 people visited on the first day. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

With Brown Thomas’s expansion delayed, the mall looks to other areas for reinvigoration

Shared understanding of needs vital to Ireland’s housing future Policy initiatives require legislation, funding, land, infrastructure, provision of vital public services and institutional change. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

State’s housing affordability, inclusion and sustainability can be helped by global experts

Search continues for Dublin man missing in US Rocky Mountains The National Park Service called on anyone travelling in ‘backcountry’ in the park since last Tuesday to come forward if they have any information about Mr McLaughlin. Image: Twitter/Grand Teton National Park

Cian McLaughlin (27) believed to have gone hiking in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Councillors back rezoning that could allow 2,200 homes in north Dublin Cllr Noeleen Reilly (Independent), said the redevelopment plan that could lead to as many as 2,200 new homes near Finglas village (above) was an “excellent” proposal with “huge opportunities” for the village, “which has been dying on its knees for many years”. File photograph: Google Street View

Dublin City Councillors support plan for 100-acre Finglas site by 43 votes to 17

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