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 Department of Foreign Affairs staff held champagne event during lockdown

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

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

7 People should isolate if they have symptoms or positive antigen test – HSE

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

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

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

11 Áras unsafe ‘for habitation’ when Robinson moved in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25 ‘It’s an incomprehensible form of death’

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

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

30 Omicron driving coronavirus infections to staggering level

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

32 The big Irish Times Christmas quiz of 2021

33 Messiah hits the right notes for John Major in Dublin

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

35 Michael McDowell: We must build beautiful urban structures

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

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

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

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

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