1 Pandemic will end, says Irish scientist who designed Oxford AZ vaccine

2 Omicron wave of Covid-19 cases set to peak within a week or so, Varadkar says

3 We should not uncritically dismiss those who choose not to get vaccinated

4 Department of Foreign Affairs staff held champagne event during lockdown

5 ‘I suggested an open relationship. Now I fear my husband has fallen in love’

6 People should isolate if symptomatic or have positive antigen test – HSE

7 Gordon D’Arcy: Pecking order at outhalf is of national interest given Carbery's injury woes

8 Engaging with ‘Provo fascists’ unavoidable, AG told John Bruton

9 Sinéad O’Connor’s colourful seafront home in Bray for sale for nearly €1m

10 Sarah Harding, untameable to the end, left a vital last message

11 Róisín Ingle: There is no relief here at the a*se end of 2021

12 Áras unsafe ‘for habitation’ when Robinson moved in

13 McGuinness and Ervine went ‘face to face’ during testy Belfast talks

14 Hold the fort: Phoenix Park's military ‘town’ to get facelift fit for a Magazine

15 ‘We officially cancelled Christmas’: Covid disrupts festivities for many families

16 Motor dealer owes Revenue €11.7m in one of largest ever settlements

17 Official called Bob Geldof ‘fairly has-been’ when considering Nobel nomination

18 Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal by couple being pursued by AIB

19 Wind farms, turbines and landslides: the fears of locals

20 Michael McDowell: We must build beautiful urban structures

21 Conor Meyler: Meditation, cold baths, stretching, and taping my mouth

22 Messiah hits the right notes for John Major in Dublin

23 HSE warns of ‘reduced value’ of testing with Omicron rampant

24 IRA chiefs in Maze approved building escape tunnel ‘but wanted it to fail’

25 Further 9,006 Covid-19 cases reported as number hospitalised rises sharply

26 Leo Cullen reveals his personal experience having come through Omicron

27 Fintan O’Toole: It’s the first birthday of the Brexit hole and they have to keep digging

28 ‘I have a friend whose parenting is hard to watch’

29 The big Irish Times Christmas quiz of 2021

30 John Clarke on missing his wife Marian Finucane: ‘I didn’t realise how much we chatted’

31 ‘How to lie convincingly’: Foreign Affairs joke handbook revealed

32 Live or let die? How James Bond can survive beyond the Daniel Craig era

33 ‘It’s an incomprehensible form of death’

34 Omicron driving coronavirus infections to staggering level

35 People aged over 30 to be offered boosters from today

36 Major told Bruton he struggled to ‘believe a word Sinn Féin/IRA say’

37 Housing prices rose almost 8% in 2021, Daft finds

38 Dara Ó Briain reveals his quest for his birth mother: ‘She said there was no choice in this’

39 Alaska sets new record high December temperature of 19.4C

40 Declan Kelly leaves charity board after drunken behaviour at party