1 Pandemic will end, says Irish scientist who designed Oxford AZ vaccine

2 We should not uncritically dismiss those who choose not to get vaccinated

3 Omicron wave of Covid-19 cases set to peak within a week or so, Varadkar says

4 People should isolate if symptomatic or have positive antigen test – HSE

5 ‘I suggested an open relationship. Now I fear my husband has fallen in love’

6 Covid-19 cases surge around world, raising testing and quarantine fears

7 Department of Foreign Affairs staff held champagne event during lockdown

8 Conor Meyler: Meditation, cold baths, stretching, and taping my mouth

9 Gordon D’Arcy: Pecking order at outhalf is of national interest given Carbery's injury woes

10 Why so many mismatches between antigen and PCR tests? They may both be right

11 Róisín Ingle: There is no relief here at the a*se end of 2021

12 Hold the fort: Phoenix Park's military ‘town’ to get facelift fit for a Magazine

13 Áras unsafe ‘for habitation’ when Robinson moved in

14 Motor dealer owes Revenue €11.7m in one of largest ever settlements

15 Live or let die? How James Bond can survive beyond the Daniel Craig era

16 Prince Andrew’s lawyer seeks to halt US case as accuser ‘lives in Australia’

17 McGuinness and Ervine went ‘face to face’ during testy Belfast talks

18 Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal by couple being pursued by AIB

19 Leo Cullen reveals his personal experience having come through Omicron

20 Wind farms, turbines and landslides: the fears of locals

21 Sweden’s Northvolt battery plant sparks into life in first for Europe

22 Government must oppose UK’s ban on Troubles prosecutions, says McDonald

23 Plan for ‘Irish knighthoods’ system fell flat, files from 1991 show

24 Further 9,006 Covid-19 cases reported as number hospitalised rises sharply

25 ‘It’s an incomprehensible form of death’

26 A Very British Scandal: The real crime of the ‘fellatio duchess’

27 Official called Bob Geldof ‘fairly has-been’ when considering Nobel nomination

28 Elon Musk exercises all of his stock options expiring next year

29 Róisín Ingle: I decide to check flights arriving and departing on the Dublin Airport site

30 Sarah Harding, untameable to the end, left a vital last message

31 South Africa still has a lesson for North, says academic behind ‘peace safari’

32 Titane director Julia Ducournau: ‘I thought the film was going to be way more controversial’

33 Major told Bruton he struggled to ‘believe a word Sinn Féin/IRA say’

34 Engaging with ‘Provo fascists’ unavoidable, AG told John Bruton

35 The big Irish Times Christmas quiz of 2021

36 Sinéad O’Connor’s colourful seafront home in Bray for sale for nearly €1m

37 Messiah hits the right notes for John Major in Dublin

38 Fintan O’Toole: It’s the first birthday of the Brexit hole and they have to keep digging

39 ‘I have a friend whose parenting is hard to watch’

40 ‘We officially cancelled Christmas’: Covid disrupts festivities for many families