1 More than 80 attend rave in Leinster area in breach of rules

2 The problem with Shane MacGowan

3 College apologises after lecturers overheard insulting students

4 Moses Farrow: ‘I felt inherently like I was a bad kid. The abuse at home reinforced that’

5 ‘Wasn’t it herself told me?’: Which bit of Ireland would that phrase be from?

6 Biden affirmed as US president by electoral college

7 Covid-19: New coronavirus strain identified in England

8 Ireland’s most expensive street identified in new property report

9 John Gilligan: From feared gangland figure, to failed jailed criminal

10 Covid-19: Two further deaths and 264 more cases confirmed

11 Family at odds over money left by dad

12 Man challenges decision to cease PUP after he temporarily left the State

13 Covid-19 in Ireland’s ‘gourmet capital’: ‘People not showing up is beyond belief’

14 Tallaght buildings to be heated using excess energy from Amazon data centre

15 How to cook Christmas: Turkey and ham made easy

16 Santa visit blamed for mass infection at Belgian nursing home

17 Vote on contentious EU-Canada trade deal deferred after Green TD concerns

18 Fairytale of New York: Horrified fans react to Jon Bon Jovi’s new cover

19 Evolved to run – but not to exercise

20 US attorney general William Barr steps down from Trump administration

21 Boris Johnson has set his course for a Brexit trade deal

22 Why we celebrate Christmas on the 25th, eat mince pies and put up trees

23 Brexit identity politics and English nationalism will destroy the UK

24 Who killed the children of Belturbet?

25 Believe it or not, this is the best week of the year to try running at dawn

26 Derry Girls’ Nicola Coughlan: ‘I was, like, Are you serious? I’m not this gigantic sumo wrestler’

27 Covid-19: Netherlands to close schools under tough five-week lockdown

28 Covid-19: Northern Ireland ‘needs four-week lockdown’, says medic

29 The Irishwoman who wed a Bee Gee: ‘It was like being married to the family’

30 Arriving home for Christmas: ‘We got three negative tests before we came’

31 Restoring country home glory takes blood, sweat and tears

32 400 – yes, 400! – Irish retailers for all your online Christmas shopping

33 32 wonderful winter walks in Ireland, one in every county

34 Cybersecurity breach takes in hundreds of thousands of organisations

35 Jim Bolger’s incendiary statements should shake racing to its foundations

36 Leaving Cert oral exams could be held online or during Easter

37 Is the Grenfell Tower inferno Kingspan’s Volkswagen moment?

38 Man (80s) dies in house fire in south Dublin

39 A top 10 list of the best banned literary filth

40 Brexit: Downing Street dials down rhetoric about no-deal outcome