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‘Your first habit should be turning your clothes inside out and reading the label,’ says De Castro. Photograph: iStock

There is a rip in the armpit of Orsola de Castro’s jumper. She raises her hand high in the air so I can see it: a slash of pale skin peeks from tomato(...)

Last September the Data Protection Commission made a preliminary ruling that personal data should not be sent by Facebook Ireland, the company’s EU headquarters, to its parent company in the US. Photograph:  Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty

Facebook pressed the Irish Ambassador to the United States to lobby members of Congress on the negative impact a ban on data transfers between the US (...)

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney said Covid-19 rules were breached by American troops due to an ‘error on the US side’. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/ The Irish Times

US military troops travelling into Shannon Airport on a recent flight breached Irish Covid-19 regulations due to an “error on the US side,” Minister f(...)

Catholic Primate Archbishop Eamon Martin has said people are feeling fear, weariness and uncertainty during the Covid-19 pandemic. File photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times.

Covid-19 has left people feeling “uncertainty about the future, weariness with the ongoing restrictions” and fear “with talk of new waves and new vari(...)

“We’ve decided not to open this Sunday for the hurling final” - Crotty’s Inn will stay shut for Sunday’s big match. Photograph: Google Street.

A pub in Co Waterford has decided to keep its doors shut for the All-Ireland hurling final with the “parish’s best interests at heart”. Waterford ta(...)

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly: at the centre of the storm over the Taoiseach and Tánaiste’s public annoyance over learning at the last minute that the National Public Health Emergency Team  was recommending an escalation to Level-5 lockdown. Photograph:  Julien Behal

Stephen Donnelly sounded sick as a small hospital in Ireland on Thursday: under serious pressure but not overwhelmed. Yet. He was the living embodim(...)

Brazil’s justice minister Sérgio Moro arrives to give a press conference in Brasília to announce his resignation on Friday. Photograph: Eraldo Peres/AP

One of the most popular and powerful figures in Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right administration – the celebrity justice minister Sérgio Moro – has resigned,(...)

Workers wearing protective suit walk next to Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan on March 30th. Photograph:   Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

The Huanan seafood wholesale market in central Wuhan was the kind of place where people often catch colds. Vendors started setting up as early as 3am,(...)

It can be “especially difficult” for drug users to remain indoors when they need to access drugs daily.  Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Drug users in Dublin are being trained to administer an anti-overdose medication in a bid to minimise drug-related deaths during the coronavirus outbr(...)

A woman carries shopping bags in Dublin city centre as the Covid-19 pandemic takes hold. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/EPA.

I have to wash my shopping now, do I? Well, no. Or yes. Maybe. As the scale of the coronavirus crisis has deepened at home and abroad restrictions (...)

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