The number of people being treated in hospitals here for Covid-19 increased on Tuesday morning to 94. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill Covid-19: Ireland has one of western Europe’s highest infection rates in older people
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Taoiseach Micheal Martin: said the impact of Covid-19 could be in place ‘right through the entirety of 2021 and so the fiscal planning and planning around budgets has to take that into consideration’. Photograph: Tom Honan/PA Wire Taoiseach defends cuts to pandemic unemployment rates
Northern Ireland first minister Arlene Foster: ‘I hope that people work with us in a partnership approach the way in which we have worked at the earlier part of the pandemic so that we can try and break the transmission.’ Photograph: Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye/PA Wire Foster not ruling out further Northern Ireland lockdown
The Oliver Bond flats complex in Dublin’s south inner city. Photograph: Collins Coronavirus: Council tenants who have parties ‘risk eviction’
Prof Philip Nolan has said there was “lots of international evidence” for the role of restaurants and bars in driving community transmission of Covid-19. File photograph: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie Investment in more detailed contact tracing needed to reveal key Covid-19 trends
HSE chief Paul Reid. Photograph Nick Bradshaw Rise in Covid-19 hospitalisations ‘a very concerning trend’, says Paul Reid
Ellen DeGeneres apology: Why do her words sound hollow? Ellen DeGeneres: ‘I take responsibility for what happens at my show.’ File photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty

Apology over harassment allegations has tang of woman using right buzzwords but not really believing them

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Idles singer Joe Talbot on teaming up with Jamie Cullum, working wih heroes and living in this angry age

Eileen Flynn: ‘As a Traveller woman, I was undermined in the maternity hospital’ Eileen and Billie.

Parenting in my shoes: The Senator hopes her daughter will be part of a more positive, inclusive Ireland

Fintan O'Toole: Ireland's young and working classes are in the Covid-19 firing line We deny huge numbers of workers the right to be paid when they’re off sick – and hope the welfare system will pick up the slack. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Lack of mandatory sick pay means people have no choice but to go to work when they feel ill and this helps coronavirus spread

Ten new advisers to junior ministers to be appointed despite previous Government decision Josepha Madigan is one of the Ministers of State. She is at the Department of Education with responsibility for special needs and inclusion. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell

Ministers of State told in summer they would have to share a pool of staff

Summit of EU leaders postponed over Covid-19 fears “National governments have a backlog of policy decisions to make together and consider physical meetings to be vital for forging agreement.”

European Council president Charles Michel enters isolation after guard tests positive

Independent inquiry to be held into 1976 death of Seamus Ludlow Solicitor Gavin Booth (left) and Seamus Ludlow’s relatives Michael Donegan and Eileen Boland speak to the media at the Lisdoo Arms in Dundalk, Co Louth on Tuesday. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA.

Nobody convicted over fatal shooting of forestry worker (47) after leaving Dundalk pub

Council policing meeting suspended as email error leads to no Garda appearance A meeting of the Dublin City Joint Policing Committee was suspended after an error inputting an incorrect email address led to nobody from An Garda Síochána appearing. File image: Niall Carson/PA Wire.

Holding policing committee without police present a ‘contradiction in terms’, councillor says

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Scotland sought Ireland’s help with Covid-19 testing, says Taoiseach A pop-up Covid-19 Test Centre at Castleknock Health Care Centre in Dublin. File Photograph: Alan Betson

Martin says State was not in a position to offer assistance due to capacity issues

Deported man says he has lived in airport for months He claims he was left in the terminal without money, a telephone or his luggage and cannot leave the airport because he cannot buy visa required to enter Ethiopia

Man claims gardaí were supposed to return him to his native country, court has heard

Judge to rule next week on ‘unprecedented’ application over brain-injured child The president of the High Court hopes to rule next week on a hospital’s application for orders allowing it to withhold invasive life preserving interventions from a catastrophically brain-injured child. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times.

Hospital seeking orders to withhold life preserving interventions from child injured in collision

Man found guilty of manslaughter over Kerry death A sentencing date for Arnoldas Ivanauskas is being considered.

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