1 College apologises after lecturers overheard insulting student online

2 Covid-19: New coronavirus strain identified in England

3 The problem with Shane MacGowan

4 My mother’s daughter: Mum kept her painful secret for 30 years

5 Family at odds over money left by dad

6 Covid-19: Northern Ireland ‘needs four-week lockdown’, says medic

7 Derry Girls’ Nicola Coughlan: ‘I was, like, Are you serious? I’m not this gigantic sumo wrestler’

8 Jim Bolger’s incendiary statements should shake racing to its foundations

9 Why we celebrate Christmas on the 25th, eat mince pies and put up trees

10 Ireland to face Springboks in their 2023 World Cup pool

11 Moses Farrow: ‘I felt inherently like I was a bad kid. The abuse at home reinforced that’

12 Covid-19: Two further deaths and 264 more cases confirmed

13 Brexit identity politics and English nationalism will destroy the UK

14 Boris Johnson has set his course for a Brexit trade deal

15 ‘Wasn’t it herself told me?’: Which bit of Ireland would that phrase come from?

16 Ireland’s most expensive street identified in new property report

17 Arriving home for Christmas: ‘We got three negative tests before we came’

18 Evolved to run – but not to exercise

19 Woman who stole €2,700 from elderly friend’s bank card, is jailed

20 How to cook Christmas: Turkey and ham made easy

21 Gardaí warned discounts at takeaways are seen as corruption

22 The Swiss cheese model of Covid-19 defence: What it means, how it works

23 Fairytale of New York: Horrified fans react to Jon Bon Jovi’s new cover

24 Cybersecurity breach takes in hundreds of thousands of organisations

25 Seven pupils turn up to school affected by Covid-19 after department ordered it to reopen

26 The Offload: No Eddie, rugby is not a safer sport

27 Who killed the children of Belturbet?

28 Man charged with termination of a pregnancy

29 Is the Grenfell Tower inferno Kingspan’s Volkswagen moment?

30 State ‘on the cusp’ of using two Covid-19 vaccines – Dr Ronan Glynn

31 Man who threatened bookmakers with toilet brush handle gets suspended sentence

32 Covid-19 in Ireland’s ‘gourmet capital’: ‘People not showing up is beyond belief’

33 Believe it or not, this is the best week of the year to try running at dawn

34 Why it is important to prioritise your own wellbeing this Christmas

35 A top 10 list of the best banned literary filth

36 400 – yes, 400! – Irish retailers for all your online Christmas shopping

37 The Irishwoman who wed a Bee Gee: ‘It was like being married to the family’

38 Coronavirus: Concern at rise in figures as 429 new cases reported

39 Greens seek to postpone vote on contentious EU-Canada trade deal

40 Dublin pub told by gardaí it must serve food after suspension of €9 meal