1 ‘The social worker said: Were two seconds of pleasure worth it for all this?’

2 Family members of staff at Rotunda Hospital received leftover Covid-19 vaccine

3 Trump’s last days fuel lucrative market for presidential pardons

4 Days of three-bed semis in Dublin ‘are over’ as high-density housing plans take hold

5 Judge refuses to renew Laois pub’s licence after gardaí object

6 Number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals exceeds 2,000 for first time

7 Ireland is 13th most expensive place in the world to live

8 Take a look inside Chris de Burgh’s Wicklow mansion

9 Covid-19 advice sent by text to 1,511 arrivals from Brazil amid new strain

10 Coombe vaccine usage symptomatic of wider issues around rollout fairness

11 Five more ports in the State to open for Northern Irish boats

12 Spacious Sandymount redbrick with home office for €1.45m

13 Dublin hospital gave leftover vaccines to 16 relatives of staff

14 Nuns who ran the Bessborough home in Cork sold part of site for €6.85m

15 Older people should increase exercise prior to Covid-19 vaccination – report

16 Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration: Where can I watch, and what are the key moments?

17 ‘I got a burning smell in my nose’: Third-wave Covid-19 patients share their experiences

18 ‘I’m the meme queen’: A Q-Anon digital soldier marches on

19 Man avoids jail term for stealing from dead’s man account

20 Man (28) admits murdering 11-year-old in 2019

21 Brexit: Currys/PC World Irish customers asked to pay import taxes in error

22 Large increase in number of Covid-19 travel fines issued by gardaí

23 Dubliner charged with harassing journalists remanded in custody

24 Warming curry bursting with flavour but not the fat

25 Coombe board to discuss giving of Covid-19 vaccine to 16 family members of staff

26 Vaccine should not be given to people close to death, says HSE

27 Protein discovery at UCD paves way for anti-Covid drugs

28 Ireland's Covid-19 vaccination programme chugging along steadily after sluggish start

29 Book on disappearance of Noah Donohoe referred to Attorney General

30 Deaths spur Norway concern at Covid vaccine safety for vulnerable elderly

31 Marmalade yoghurt tea cake

32 The Offload: Ronan O’Gara more than willing to take a punt on Jack Crowley

33 A perfect tea cake: fluffy, light, unfussy – and simple to make

34 Issues of fairness raised in way vaccine distributed to healthcare workers, HSE says

35 Fish farm no longer permitted to take water from lake to bathe salmon

36 Vaccine rollout will present tricky legal issues for employers

37 Irish officials raise queries with EU over disruptive post-Brexit ‘rules of origin’

38 Plan for ‘traditional’ Leaving Cert pushes obsession with the exam to new levels

39 Mother and baby homes report is the story of us as a nation

40 Look of the Irish: Rising star of New York fashion scene