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

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

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

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

11 The only four skincare products you need

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

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

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

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

16 Remote working: ‘I do find myself wondering how I did the commute’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25 AIB plans ‘ethical’ sale of up to 650 distressed mortgages

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

27 Trump prepares to leave for Florida before Biden inauguration

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

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

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

31 Meal Box Review: A Chinese takeaway you will never tire of

32 Ferry firms offer new Ireland to France sailings due to Brexit delays

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

34 Ralph Lauren ends Justin Thomas sponsorship over homophobic slur

35 Coronavirus: Ireland administers its first doses of Moderna vaccine

36 Ireland should be wary as tech giants cancel Trump

37 Netflix has spent millions on its films, so why are they so mediocre?

38 EU states warn of risks to vaccination credibility as Pfizer slows supplies

39 Hong Kong – ‘Not the kind of place you would come on your own’

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