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A mass-vaccination drive for GPs and practice nurses has begun in Ireland. Three centres delivering Moderna vaccine jabs have been opened in Galway, Portlaoise and the Phoenix Park, Dublin as seen in the video above.

Hundreds of people are attending Lichfield Cathedral in the UK to get their coronavirus vaccination. Field hospital style facilities along with waiting areas have been set up inside the cathedral, including along its central aisle. Video: Reuters

Donald Trump’s last days as President have been marked by rage and turmoil. No one in his orbit could convince him to acknowledge election defeat and use his remaining time to hold events to tout accomplishments that he and his aides are proud of.

The FBI is questioning dozens of people in relation to the killing of Brian Sicknick, a police officer who died a day after physically engaging with supporters of President Trump who stormed the US Capitol recently, and other assaults on police.

Staff at Nenagh hospital have posted a video to social media calling on the Government to sanction Covid-19 vaccines for the hospital's frontline staff.

Britons arriving in the Netherlands since the start of 2021 have been met with new strict rules on the import of meat, fruit, vegetables and fish from outside the EU. Video: Reuters

Eyewitness footage shows collapsed and damaged buildings in Mamuju after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake shook Indonesia's Sulawesi island. Video: Reuters

The leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has claimed that fish are "happier" now that they are in British waters post-Brexit. Video: UK Parliament TV

Professor Philip Nolan has announced that almost half of Ireland's total Covid-19 cases, 44 per cent, have been reported since the turn of the year on January 1st. Video: RTÉ

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has announced that based on current projections 700,000 people in the State will have received a Covid-19 vaccine by the end of March. Video: Oireachtas TV

In a video posted onsocial media, US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared her thoughts about the recent siege at the US Capitol, saying that she feared for her life as the mob invaded the building. Video: Reuters

US president Donald Trump has been impeached for a historic second time by the US House of Representatives. Video: Reuters

The testimonies of three survivors of the mother and baby home institutions in Ireland - a mother, adoptee, and an adoptee’s family - in a mini-doc that accompanies Caelainn Hogan’s investigative book documenting the “shame-industrial complex.” Video: Dave O’Carroll/Philip Blake/Caelainn Hogan

US house speaker Nancy Pelosi opens the debate on Donald Trump's second impeachment hearing by calling the US president a "clear and present danger" to the United States. Video: Reuters

Bodycam footage has captured a Kansas game warden separating two whitetail deer that were tangled by their antlers - likely while rutting - with a single gunshot. Video: Cover Media

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has issued an apology on behalf of the State to former residents of mother and baby homes. Video: Oireachtas TV

Hundreds of migrants are taking shelter in abandoned buildings around the northwestern Bosnian town of Bihac, wrapping up against the snow and freezing weather and hoping eventually to reach EU member Croatia across the border. Video: Reuters

Five years after Donald Trump announced his presidential bid with a promise to build a “great, great wall” along the US-Mexico border, the president visited Texas to view the partially built structure, most of which replaced old, existing fencing.

As several Republicans have expressed support for the Democrats in voting to impeach President Donald Trump he has called the impeachment proposals a hoax and a vicious hunt. Video: Reuters

The huge report, which runs to some 3,000 pages, is a scathing indictment of the institutions it examined. Taoiseach Micheál Martin says its findings have revealed a "dark, difficult and shameful chapter of very recent Irish history". Video: Pool/PA

Volunteers with Claddagh Watch Patrol walk along the Corrib three or four nights a week, keeping an eye out for people disorientated or distressed near the water. Video: Kathleen Harris

As many as eight gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are presumed to have contracted Covid-19 from a human handler after one of the animals tested positive, marking the first known transmission of the virus to apes. Video: Reuters

Ford's all-diesel Kuga is lighter and more agile than the plug-in hybrid alternative costing just under a grand more. However, when charged regularly, the hybrid should offer significant fuel savings. Is it the better option? Video: Neil Briscoe

As cases of Covid-19 surge across the UK, a temporary overflow morgue has been set up in Surrey near London to cope with the rising fatalities. Video: Reuters

US President-elect Joe Biden received his second and final dose of the Pfizer Inc COVID-19 vaccine on Monday at a hospital in Newark, Delaware. Video: Reuters

A record surge in Covid-19 cases in Ireland was due to increased social mixing over Christmas and was not caused by a new variant from Britain, Dr Mike Ryan of the World Health Organisation has said.

Professor Philip Nolan has said that it looks as if we are beginning to turn a corner as the five-day case average of Covid-19 has started to stabilise and the restrictions introduced on 26 December are beginning to have an effect. Video: RTE News

A spontaneous snowball fight broke out on a Madrid street on after heavy snowfall from Storm Filomena brought the city to a standstill. Video: Reuters / Deirdre Carney / Jorge Meis

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said that she was ready to start second impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump unless he was removed from office. Video Reuters

Indonesian search and rescue teams have removed body parts and debris from the Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 plane crash site in the Java sea. Video: Reuters

Arnold Schwarzenegger has denounced last week's attack on the US Capitol, calling Donald Trump the "worst president ever" and comparing the events to 1938's Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, which marked the rise of Nazi Germany.

Indonesian authorities have located the pings of black boxes of the Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea soon after taking off from Jakarta, as human body parts and suspected pieces of the plane were retrieved. Video: Reuters

US house Democratic chair Hakeem Jeffries has laid out plans to remove US president Donald Trump from office, saying he was guilty of inciting sedition. Video: Reuters

Debris has been found in the search for a Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500, that lost contact after taking off from Indonesia's capital Jakarta. Video: Anadolu Agency

Eyewitness footage captures smoke rising from a fire at the Port of Cork. Video: @yaycork/Reuters

US president elect Joe Biden has described Donald Trump's decision not to attend the inauguration ceremony on January 20th "one of the few things he and I have ever agreed on." Video: C-Span

St Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin is racing to treat a surge of Covid cases, as it begins vaccinating staff. Video: Kathleen Harris

President Trump said that a new administration will be in place on January 20th – the first time that he has acknowledged that Joe Biden will be the next US president, adding that he was focused on a “smooth, orderly, seamless transition of power”. Video: Reuters

House speaker Nancy Pelosi called on vice-president Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment to the constitution, which allows for a president to be removed. If not, she warned, they could start impeachment proceedings again. Video: Reuters

More views from inside the mayhem, confusion and chaos outside the Capitol as Trump supporters entered and disrupted certification of the Electoral College results. Video: NYT

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World

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Sport

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Culture

Tanya Roberts, Bond girl and Charlie's Angel, dies aged 65 0:41 January 6, 2021 Tanya Roberts, Bond girl and Charlie's Angel, dies aged 65
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Life & Style

Inside an Irish ICU: 'We are nowhere near the Covid-19 peak' 5:40 January 9, 2021 Inside an Irish ICU: 'We are nowhere near the Covid-19 peak'
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Motors

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Technology

Sperm whales one of most abundant whale species off Ireland 0:12 December 10, 2020 Sperm whales one of most abundant whale species off Ireland
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Business

The Boeing 737 MAX 'is the most scrutinized, most audited aircraft in history', says O'Leary 0:56 December 8, 2020 The Boeing 737 MAX 'is the most scrutinized, most audited aircraft in history', says O'Leary
Clerys Quarter: Dublin's famous department store gets a new lease of life 2:16 December 3, 2020 Clerys Quarter: Dublin's famous department store gets a new lease of life
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Politics

Von der Leyen hails 'fair and balanced' Brexit deal 3:49 December 24, 2020 Von der Leyen hails 'fair and balanced' Brexit deal
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