1 Explainer: What are the reopening plans and key dates for exiting lockdown?

2 Cabinet to receive plan for accelerated reopening from lockdown with intercounty travel and retail from May

3 Hairdressers set to reopen on May 10th when intercounty travel will be allowed

4 UCD ‘a joke university’, under-fire lecturer tells students

5 Newton Emerson: DUP predicament is hopeless

6 Helen McEntee gives birth to baby boy, a first for a serving Cabinet Minister

7 Nine-bedroom Gothic Revival mansion by the Liffey for €3m

8 Passport production set to be deemed essential service

9 Church opposes Dún Laoghaire rezoning on basis it will lower its land value

10 ‘My brother has moved into the family home and won’t buy out my share’

11 Kevin Power: My first novel was a hit. I could write full-time. And that made me … angry

12 Pace of planned reopening catches even Coalition by surprise

13 Plagued by minor ailments: How to ease the pain of middle age

14 Man released early from hotel quarantine in ‘error’ made to return

15 How Arlene Foster went from untouchable to expendable

16 ‘We all loved working for JWT. It was a special place that dealt in dreams and sunshine’

17 Seth Rogen: ‘I wake up in the morning, I make a cup of coffee and I roll a joint’

18 Drone delivery start-up Manna raises $25m ahead of major expansion

19 Irish family of engineer held in Baghdad living a ‘nightmare’

20 Where did Sinn Féin’s nuanced understanding of data protection issues go?

21 Miriam Lord: Damp squibs in the Dáil while sparks fly in Stormont and Westminster

22 Will Young: ‘Teachers looking at us in the shower, the bath. It was awful. That’s why I’ve got PTSD’

23 Róisín Ingle: I can’t go into the sitting room. I despise every stick of furniture in it

24 Foreign residents who have to travel say they feel ‘targeted’ by quarantine measures

25 Big developers unhappy with Dún Laoghaire plan

26 Sturgeon sees NI protocol as ‘template’ for independent Scotland in EU

27 Pension reform throws harsh light on Irish retirement savings

28 ‘Girls in Norway are more direct. I’m sure I insulted many Irish people’

29 Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker: What's available in the Republic of Ireland and what else is coming?

30 Tullow Oil launches $1.8bn bond deal in major refinancing

31 Sublime Sligo cottage offers promise of the good life for €250,000

32 ‘The owners’ faces turned pale. They were speechless’: How a €3m painting was discovered

33 Rugby Stats: Alldritt and Ruddock ready to carry the heavy loads once more

34 Fear of gambling relapse ‘just terrifies’ Offaly’s Niall McNamee

35 Who will be in the race to lead the DUP?

36 Dave Hannigan: Race to be next California governor the latest challenge for Caitlyn Jenner

37 Jono Gibbes: Leinster experience ‘doesn’t diminish my desire to beat these guys’

38 Pep Guardiola adapts tactics as Man City turn tables on PSG

39 Bóthar: Bonuses paid to staff under guise of charitable causes, court told

40 Arlene Foster to stand down as North’s First Minister and DUP leader