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The Rotunda cancelled appointments on Friday. The HSE confirmed the cyberattack hit all hospital IT systems. Photograph: Colin Keegan/ Collins Dublin

HSE examines extent to which patient records were compromised in cyberattack

Health IT systems ‘some way off’ restoration, with hospitals to be affected for next week

People who have booked a Covid-19 test already are advised to go to their appointment as scheduled. File photograph: iStock

Explainer: Which health services are impacted by cyberattack on HSE ?

Detailed list of all changes to services and cancelations for every hospital issued

Taoiseach Micheál Martin: “We’re very clear we will not be paying any ransom.” Photograph: Daragh McSweeney

Cyberattack on HSE systems prompts cancellation of key medical procedures

Disruption set to persist into next week as Taoiseach vows ransom will not be paid

The HSE confirmed a cyber attack hit all hospital IT systems, with appointments at the Rotunda cancelled on Friday as a result. Photograph: Colin Keegan/ Collins Dublin

4:16 Cyberattack on HSE: Scale of damage on systems will not be known for days

Minister says group responsible has been identified by the State’s cybersecurity apparatus

Taoiseach Micheal Martin said it would take some days to assess the impact of the attack. File photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Bitcoin ransom will not be paid following cyber attack on HSE computer systems

Taoiseach insists vaccination programme continues uninterrupted despite serious cybercrime incident

People awaiting Covid-19 test results have been asked to continue to self isolate. File photograph: Alan Betson/ The Irish Times

Cyber attack to impede ability of health service to organise effective Covid-19 testing

HSE says receipt of results may be delayed and those with test appointments booked urged to attend

A 12-week gap between Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine doses significantly increases the immune response in older people, research suggests. Photograph: PA Wire

Delay in giving second Pfizer vaccine dose improves immunity, study finds

Research finds antibodies three-and-a-half times higher in people vaccinated after 12 weeks

Minister for Tourism Catherine Martin is to present to Government a tourism advisory group’s report aimed at getting the State ready to restart the tourism sector. It also recommends the removal of restrictions on UK visitors, thus effectively also allowing residents of the Republic to travel freely to Britain. Photograph :Gareth Chaney/Collins

Opening of travel bubble between Britain and Ireland planned

Irish citizens could holiday in UK within weeks

Members of the Defence Forces escort two buses to The Red Cow Covid mandatory quarantine hotel last week. Currently, there are 976 people in mandatory hotel quarantine. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Covid-19: Government expected to reconsider quarantine rules

New plan for mandatory hotel arrangements and travel restrictions set to be discussed

Among housebound patients, 2,400 have received a first dose and 1,000 a second dose. File photograph: Getty

3:38 Up to 280,000 set to be immunised as vaccine rollout accelerates

Some 250,000 shots given this week, with 2,000,000-dose milestone now surpassed

Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker: What's available in the Republic of Ireland and what else is coming?

Daily updates as Ireland embarks on largest inoculation programme in its history

Dublin has the third highest incidence rate at 198 per 100,000 people. Photograph: Alan Betson

Kildare replaces Donegal as county with highest rate of Covid-19

Fall in Donegal a result of a ‘strong response’ from local communities, Donnelly says

A healthcare worker takes a nasal swab from a policeman during Covid-19 testing in Prayagraj, India. A form of Covid-19 first identified in India has been officially designated a variant of concern in Ireland. Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP.

Covid-19: Indian strain designated as variant of concern in Ireland

Twenty cases of B1.617.2, which is spreading rapidly in the UK, identified in State up to last week

Public health nurse Deirdre Murphy with a vial of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccination at the mass vaccination centre in the Helix, DCU, Dublin. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

People in Ireland most willing in EU to take Covid-19 vaccine, survey

Report finds strong association between vaccine hesitancy and social media use

Elizabeth McCrave, from Dundalk outside Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda with her daughter Dearbhla (13) who has been there for more than nine weeks with severe anorexia. Photograph: Dara MacDónaill

‘Do I have to lose her for them to realise?’ says mother of anorexic girl (13) over lack of specialist bed

Child has been in a general hospital for more than nine weeks as no place available

A protest outside Coombe Women’s Hospital in Dublin on Tuesday by members of the Association for the Improvement in the Maternity Services calling for the removal of restrictions on partners of pregnant women attending scans and appointments. Photograph: Collins

Taoiseach to talk to HSE again to ensure maternity units comply with guidelines

Donnelly ‘quite frustrated’ at lack of progress in allowing partners to attend appointments

The check-in calls are being extended nationally following the pilot. Photograph: Alan Betson

Covid-19 contact tracers start day-four check-in calls with self-isolators

Calls being made to positive cases to check if they need financial or mental health support

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly chats with staff at Reeves Day Surgery in Tallaght as he launches the Sláintecare Implementation Strategy & Action Plan 2021-2023. Photograph: Marc O’Sullivan

Sláintecare action plan includes three new hospitals in Dublin, Cork and Galway

Public-only consultant contracts and hiring 70,000 healthcare staff by 2023 also planned

Six week old Éabha pictured with her mother, Shauna Gillan at the Coombe Women’s Hospital at a protest by the Association for the Improvement in the Maternoty Services. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Women protest outside maternity hospitals over Covid restrictions

Birthing partners must be reclassified as ‘essential’, says TD

The latest findings about Clonakilty Community Hospital were contained in one of 53 inspection reports published by Hiqa that found non-compliance with regulations at 32 care facilities. Photograph: Getty

Care home lacked isolation space five months after Covid-19 outbreak

Hiqa report raises concerns about Clonakilty facility where 10 residents died last year

Ministers and the three party leaders favour rolling out the use of antigen tests to help with the reopening of many sectors of commercial and social life. Photograph: Getty

2:39 Reliability of Covid antigen tests seen as key issue as reopening continues

Government’s chief science adviser backs use of rapid tests to complement other health measures

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