1 ‘The social worker said: Were two seconds of pleasure worth it for all this?’

2 Number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals exceeds 2,000 for first time

3 Days of three-bed semis in Dublin ‘are over’ as high-density housing plans take hold

4 Take a look inside Chris de Burgh’s Wicklow mansion

5 Ireland is 13th most expensive place in the world to live

6 Coombe board to discuss giving of Covid-19 vaccine to 16 family members of staff

7 Vaccine should not be given to people close to death, says HSE

8 Protein discovery at UCD paves way for anti-Covid drugs

9 ‘I’m the meme queen’: A Q-Anon digital soldier marches on

10 Spacious Sandymount redbrick with home office for €1.45m

11 Man (28) admits murdering 11-year-old in 2019

12 Issues of fairness raised in way vaccine distributed to healthcare workers, HSE says

13 Dublin hospital gave leftover vaccines to 16 relatives of staff

14 Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration: Where can I watch, and what are the key moments?

15 Nuns who ran the Bessborough home in Cork sold part of site for €6.85m

16 Man jailed for ‘extreme domestic violence’ given last chance to appeal

17 Large increase in number of Covid-19 travel fines issued by gardaí

18 The Offload: Ronan O’Gara more than willing to take a punt on Jack Crowley

19 A perfect tea cake: fluffy, light, unfussy – and simple to make

20 Warming curry bursting with flavour but not the fat

21 Cases of ‘severe’ child neglect discovered during lockdown

22 Brexit: Currys/PC World Irish customers asked to pay import taxes in error

23 ‘I got a burning smell in my nose’: Third-wave Covid-19 patients share their experiences

24 Marmalade yoghurt tea cake

25 Chris Johns: Trump wasn’t wrong about everything

26 Ken Early: Liverpool have crumbled without Virgil van Dijk

27 Covid-19 vaccines will not get us back in the office any time soon

28 Una Mullally: Will Lockdown 3.0 bring about a political awakening?

29 Deaths spur Norway concern at Covid vaccine safety for vulnerable elderly

30 Australian Open organisers stand firm on quarantine despite player demands

31 Galway turf cutters turn environmental protectors in bid to preserve bogs

32 Ireland's Covid-19 vaccination programme chugging along steadily after sluggish start

33 Plan for ‘traditional’ Leaving Cert pushes obsession with the exam to new levels

34 Mother and baby homes report is the story of us as a nation

35 Irish officials raise queries with EU over disruptive post-Brexit ‘rules of origin’

36 Russia jails Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for 30 days

37 Government to consider stricter regime for inward-bound travellers

38 New laws will give employees in the State the option to permanently work from home

39 Fintan O’Toole: Nicola Sturgeon’s staunch ally in her push for independence – Boris Johnson

40 Adoption ‘is for children, not for people who wish to be parents’