1 DUP making absurd U-turn towards NI protocol landing zone

2 New restrictions being considered to control Covid-19 over Christmas

3 Edie Falco: ‘I was a big fan of cocaine if it was around, but I could never afford any’

4 A night of policing in Dublin: ‘There are no no-go areas for the gardaí’

5 The dream 14: Our favourite houses of 2021

6 Is there a God? Why is there something instead of nothing? This article explains it all

7 Bank of Ireland fined €24.5m over IT flaws

8 ESB earning ‘super-normal profits’ amid ‘price gouging’, FF TD says

9 Miriam Lord: Mary Lou will be raging she missed the ghost of Pearse

10 Alec Baldwin on fatal movie set shooting: ‘I didn’t pull the trigger’

11 Chance ‘blown’ to get ahead of Covid-19, says economic historian

12 Covid-19: Schools warned against ‘over-ventilating’

13 How Dublin’s oldest suburbs lost – then rediscovered – their identities

14 Pandemic protection: How will Covid vaccines fare against Omicron variant?

15 ‘Blind luck’ finds first case of Omicron variant in Ireland, Nphet says

16 Scientists believe ‘trigger’ for rare blood clots after AZ vaccine found

17 Why Bulgaria has the lowest vaccination rate in the EU

18 Motorists should pay to drive into city centre, say Dubliners

19 Covid vaccine boosters will likely be needed every year, Pfizer chief says

20 Travellers to US must now undergo Covid-19 test within a day of departure

21 Never come between an Irish person and their 1970s bungalow

22 Irish gifting platform &Open to create 100 new jobs

23 Rory McIlroy: Players should be allowed to compete in Saudi International

24 Facebook cannot keep burying its head in the sand and hope things blow over

25 Rita Moreno: ‘Was Brando a good lover? Oh, yes! Incredible’

26 Q&A: What happens to Munster now they have returned to Ireland?

27 Cabinet crumbling under double pressure from Covid and mica

28 Q&A: What does Omicron mean for travel to and from Ireland?

29 The trees and hedging next door block our light and are damaging our fence

30 The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages – An intimate read

31 Woman (40) got lost in Ikea for three hours after being struck on head by falling flat-pack

32 Poolbeg views from a stylish Sandymount villa for €1.35m

33 Robbie Dunne ‘opened towel’ to fellow jockey Bryony Frost in changing room

34 Greg O’Shea’s recipe for a creamy but simple carbonara that brims with flavour

35 WHO deploys surge team to South Africa to tackle Omicron variant

36 All arrivals into State must provide negative Covid test from Friday

37 Mail on Sunday loses appeal over Meghan Markle privacy ruling

38 ‘Following the science’ is not enough in a pandemic

39 GSK-Vir antibody-based Covid-19 treatment works against Omicron variant

40 Dublin now third most expensive location globally for warehousing