1 ‘The social worker said: Were two seconds of pleasure worth it for all this?’

2 Deaths spur Norway concern at Covid vaccine safety for vulnerable elderly

3 Mary’s story: Roscommon woman believed a lifetime of exile was as it should be

4 Covid-19: 60 more deaths, 3,231 new cases as Holohan warns too many still breaking rules

5 ‘A very nice baby with beautiful fair skin ... It was like they were selling a doll’

6 Is paying someone to clean your house the last word in middle-class privilege?

7 Irish GPs fighting third-wave Covid: On the front line of the world’s worst outbreak

8 Fintan O’Toole: Nicola Sturgeon’s staunch ally in her push for independence – Boris Johnson

9 Nationwide curfew in France as Covid death toll reaches 70,000

10 Further year of Covid curbs needed to protect public, says top health official

11 How did Ireland jump from low Covid base to world’s highest infection rate?

12 Ireland’s mounting Brexit woes unlikely to convince EU to reopen deal

13 Covid-19: Over 2,000 student nurses to leave placements so trainers can return to wards

14 Maureen Gaffney: The land of the mother and baby homes

15 Joanna Fortune: ‘Don’t minimise or try to fix a child’s anxiety. It doesn’t work’

16 Breda O'Brien: It took almost 100 years to hear Alice Litster shouting stop

17 Almost all GPs receive first dose as mass vaccination centres open

18 Luke O’Neill: Scientists have delivered against Covid-19. Now the politicians need to

19 My escape to a slower pace of life on Rathlin Island

20 David McWilliams: What a Doc Martens boot can teach us about the wealth gap

21 UK will learn that size matters when it comes to sovereignty

22 Special needs schools: Families ‘deeply upset’ at reopening stand-off

23 You could fill a book with doubleplusungood uses of ‘Orwellian’

24 The only four skincare products you need

25 Coronavirus: Ireland administers its first doses of Moderna vaccine

26 Brexit red tape: ‘If nothing changes, Ireland will be closed’

27 Q&A: Covid-19 new variants in Ireland - everything you need to know

28 This Covid-19 lockdown must be the last - even if that means it lasts longer

29 HSE boss ‘extremely frustrated’ at Beacon refusal to sign surge capacity deal

30 No, you can’t use the bathroom, Jared and Ivanka tell their Secret Service agents

31 Dublin’s James McCarthy goes back to basics with the same golden result

32 Bitter final chapter in the Mike Pence-Donald Trump relationship

33 Trump prepares to leave for Florida before Biden inauguration

34 A guide to the festivals (probably) taking place in Ireland in 2021

35 Rudy Giuliani: Still Donald Trump’s man, even if White House is blocking his calls

36 What is Ireland’s plan for vaccinating people against Covid-19?

37 Miriam Lord: Why did the secretary general cross the road? Because he’s worth it

38 Ten people fined for breaching 5km rule near Wicklow mountains

39 This is the year I ... quit meat, speak Irish, start a business

40 Varadkar: €292,000 salary for top health job likely to lead to others seeking parity