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

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

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

4 Covid-19 cases surge around world, raising testing and quarantine fears

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

6 Department of Foreign Affairs staff held champagne event during lockdown

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

8 Áras unsafe ‘for habitation’ when Robinson moved in

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

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

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

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

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

14 Plan for ‘Irish knighthoods’ system fell flat, files from 1991 show

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

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

17 Sweden’s Northvolt battery plant sparks into life in first for Europe

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

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

20 Messiah hits the right notes for John Major in Dublin

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

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

23 ‘It’s an incomprehensible form of death’

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

25 Government must oppose UK’s ban on Troubles prosecutions, says McDonald

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

27 Prince Andrew’s lawyer seeks to halt US case as accuser ‘lives in Australia’

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

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

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

31 The big Irish Times Christmas quiz of 2021

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

33 Titane director Julia Ducournau: ‘I thought the film was going to be way more controversial’

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

35 Omicron driving coronavirus infections to staggering level

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

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

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

39 Leo Cullen reveals his personal experience having come through Omicron

40 Michael McDowell: We must build beautiful urban structures