Covid-19: State at most precarious stage of pandemic yet
Inside Politics: coronavirus infections are at an all-time high, schools are closed and vaccination programme is generating political firestorms

Management of vaccination programmes is fraught with political risk
Good morning – schools remain closed, industrial relations unrest abounds, parents are being pitted against teachers while the State remains at all-time high levels of infection, and the economy survives only thanks to an intravenous line of Government borrowing. Thank God we’ve seen the end of that terrible 2020, though, right?
A new year has brought little in the way of respite from the same bad news stories that burdened the news agenda last year.