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

4 Department of Foreign Affairs staff held champagne event during lockdown

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

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

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

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

9 Áras unsafe ‘for habitation’ when Robinson moved in

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

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

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

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

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

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

16 Leo Cullen reveals his personal experience having come through Omicron

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

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

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

20 Omicron driving coronavirus infections to staggering level

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

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

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

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

25 Róisín Ingle: I decide to check flights arriving and departing on the Dublin Airport site

26 Couple lose appeal over repossession of Dublin 11 home

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

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

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

30 People aged over 30 to be offered boosters from today

31 Michael McDowell: We must build beautiful urban structures

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

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

34 Alaska sets new record high December temperature of 19.4C

35 The big Irish Times Christmas quiz of 2021

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

37 Flight of small landlords will worsen Dublin housing crisis – estate agent

38 Leinster hoping Montpellier victory can be revisited

39 Why so many mismatches between antigen and PCR tests? They may both be right

40 Gloom envelops hospitality and tourism sector at the end of 2021