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

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

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

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

7 Áras unsafe ‘for habitation’ when Robinson moved in

8 Department of Foreign Affairs staff held champagne event during lockdown

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

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

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

14 ‘It’s an incomprehensible form of death’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23 IRA chiefs in Maze approved building escape tunnel ‘but wanted it to fail’

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

25 HSE warns of ‘reduced value’ of testing with Omicron rampant

26 Leo Cullen reveals his personal experience having come through Omicron

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

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

29 Full impact of Brexit red tape to hit Irish food exports in new year

30 Flight of small landlords will worsen Dublin housing crisis – estate agent

31 ‘How to lie convincingly’: Foreign Affairs joke handbook revealed

32 Michael McDowell: We must build beautiful urban structures

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

34 Alaska sets new record high December temperature of 19.4C

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

36 People aged over 30 to be offered boosters from today

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

38 Omicron driving coronavirus infections to staggering level

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

40 Aer Lingus cancels some European flights as Covid curbs affect travel plans