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Defence Forces personnel on Friday afternoon at the Holiday Inn Express Dublin Airport, one of the hotels being used for mandatory quarantine. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

4:50 Government to add US and four EU countries to quarantine list

Jack Horgan-Jones
08:31

Concern over system’s capacity to deal with extending mandatory hotel quarantine list

Green’s executive committee not supporting move to have Chu step aside

Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu has recently said that ‘the numbers aren’t there’ for her to win a Seanad seat. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Cormac McQuinn
15:48

Review ordered into Seanad byelection selection process to ‘ensure such incidents are avoided in future’

EU and UK must work together on North, says Taoiseach

Taoiseach Micheál Martin said everyone is on the one page to stop the violence, reduce tensions and avoid any escalatio. Photograph: Julien Behal

Pat Leahy
01:00

Martin acknowledges unionist anger, but little prospect of agreement being reopened

Loyalist paramilitaries deny involvement in street violence and criticise Irish Government

Nationalist youths attack police officers in the Springfield Road area of Belfast on Thursday. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP via Getty

Pat Leahy
21:19

Another night of violence in Northern Ireland sees a further 19 police officers injured and two arrests

Loyalist paramilitaries warn of failure to understand unionist anger

Church leaders from both communities gather at a gate in the peace wall at Larnark Way in west Belfast calling for the recent nightly violence to stop. Photograph: Paul Faith/ AFP via Getty

Brian Hutton
19:23

Widespread calls for calm in Belfast as police use water canon for first time in six years

Stephen Donnelly says attacks on politicians are ‘getting worse and more personal’

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said: “We’re all human and none of us want to be attacked.” File photograph: Niall Carson/PA

Vivienne Clarke
10:32

Minister for Health says work he is doing now is ‘the greatest honour of my life’

Hazel Chu says numbers ‘aren’t there’ for her to be elected to Seanad

Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu who is running as an Independent. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

Cormac McQuinn
15:14

Dublin’s Lord Mayor says seeing people from minorities running helps ease divisions

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Everybody knew the list would be added to as a new surge of Covid-19 affects Europe and beyond. Photograph: Laura Hutton

Basic schoolboy error in changes to vaccine and quarantine programmes

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Leadership at issue as Fianna Fáil eyes prospects after pandemic

16:39 Leadership at issue as Fianna Fáil eyes prospects after pandemic

Jennifer Bray

Vaccine rollout in coming weeks seen within party as crucial to position of Micheál Martin

Deliver those Covid vaccines into our arms right here, right now

Deliver those Covid vaccines into our arms right here, right now

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HSE guarded on precise drug rollout figures as confidence shaky for immediate future

Miriam Lord: Paschal gets on his high horse as RTÉ says the FG trigger word

9:13 Miriam Lord: Paschal gets on his high horse as RTÉ says the FG trigger word

Miriam Lord

Minister needed a protective layer of cotton wool after getting a kicking over kids’ shoes

Hotel quarantine row latest power struggle between Government and health experts

3:36 Hotel quarantine row latest power struggle between Government and health experts

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Handling of issue shows disconnect between Department of Health and other ministries

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Covid-19 eviction ban Bill to go to Dáil next week

Olivia Kelly
15:43

Oireachtas housing committee narrowly votes not to debate legislation

Parental leave set to rise from two weeks to five weeks

Marie O'Halloran
14:14

Family Leave Bill will apply to male same sex couples and adoptive parents

Call for Leinster House memorial to ‘courageous’ senator killed by IRA

Marie O'Halloran
20:49

Billy Fox shot dead by armed gang close to fianceé’s home in border region almost 50 years ago

Four former senators among candidates for Seanad byelections

Marie O'Halloran
19:10

Unionist Ian Marshall and diaspora advocate Billy Lawless submit nomination papers

Ceann Comhairle hits out at Department of Health ‘unadulterated fudge’

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21:53

Seán Ó Fearghaíl urges TD to complain about response over GPs charging for blood tests

AstraZeneca has given ‘unsatisfactory’ answers on EU commitments – Varadkar

Marie O'Halloran
21:17

Stephen Donnelly says company repeatedly revised delivery schedules for Covid vaccine

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