1 Covid-19 responsible for 7,000 deaths in Ireland – US research

2 Designer John Rocha’s light-filled Leeson Park home for €3.95m

3 Netflix: 10 of the best new shows to watch in May

4 Eoghan Harris confirms Sunday Independent contract terminated

5 Italy will reopen to tourists from mid-May with country’s ‘green pass’

6 Hidden Victorian near Dublin city centre feels like a country rectory

7 Gatland picks a squad to meet Springboks’ physical challenge head on

8 Government anger over UK plans to grant amnesty for crimes committed during the Troubles

9 Warren Gatland explains big calls on Johnny Sexton and James Ryan

10 Pay-off proposed for Moore Street traders to close their stalls

11 ‘No one talks about the non-Irish living here. We basically don’t exist’

12 It’s nonuplets: Mother gives birth to nine babies

13 Denis O’Brien’s attendance at Tommie Gorman’s retirement event ‘inappropriate’

14 Brother of girl shot by British soldier ‘devastated’ killer may be granted amnesty

15 Lions squad: Johnny Sexton left out as eight Irish players selected

16 Ireland had EU’s most stringent lockdown this year, analysis finds

17 Housing gives insight into ideological compatibility of FF and FG

18 McGuinness’s admiration for the queen was striking and unexpected

19 Young Somali doctor ‘badly failed’ since arrival in Ireland, says judge

20 Herd immunity ‘might now be impossible’. Here’s how we could learn to live with Covid

21 Marianne Faithfull’s Covid coma: ‘They thought I was going to croak!’

22 Catholic Church faces post-pandemic challenges

23 Gary Lineker in £4.9m tax battle in UK over freelance earnings

24 Bowled over: Stillorgan Leisureplex to be demolished

25 Johnny Vegas: ‘Don’t tell me how much you love me. I can’t take that to the bank’

26 Biden’s early foreign policy strikingly in tune with Trump

27 Want to take your pizzas to the next level? Try using one of these Irish pizza steels

28 Time to be hopeful and start planning our summer, says Holohan

29 Michel Barnier details bewilderment with British approach to Brexit talks

30 Faithfull Friend – on the late Paddy Rossmore, a reluctant celebrity who revolutionised drug treatment in Ireland

31 Apple receives €82.6bn dividend from Irish subsidiary

32 Newton Emerson: amount of money trying to get into property is doomed to swamp supply

33 Finn McRedmond: What choice did Billie Eilish have but swap sweatpants for stockings?

34 Fintan O’Toole: Us and them – the two faces of migration

35 Ian Wright: Home Truths – Abused in childhood, a black hole of suffering and rage

36 Mass rape used as weapon six months into war in Ethiopia’s Tigray

37 ‘Sweeping reforms’ not to threaten autonomy of universities

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

39 Biggest policing change ‘in 20 years’ via new Garda app

40 Saving the planet one bar of chocolate at a time