Government’s failure to adopt tests one of several restrictions blamed for aviation crisis

Holohan to discuss objections to antigen testing before Oireachtas committee

Fund will plug income gap for independent post office operators over next 18 months

Academic tells committee the rapid tests identify people at their most infectious

Interval between doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to be reduced on a phased basis

Businesses fear further restrictions amid significant rise in Covid-19 cases in the county

Airline’s chief executive Lynne Embleton to face transport committee later this month

There will be ‘no reversal’ of Shannon Airport decision , airline to tell TDs and senators

Smyth will recommend higher salary to recruit NCSC director but has not decided on figure

Radio: The Late Debate’s quietly authoritative presenter is the show’s key asset

Meeting was to take place in public but Department of Communications requested privacy

Vetoing initiative or opting out are not options for State, travel agents’ body warns

Publication ‘mistaken about Limerick ... We are who we are because we grew up where we did’

Oireachtas committee told postmasters could lose up to €10,000 following ending of payments in June

Plan to hold off on €58m project sparked backlash from community and local TDs

Norma Foley asked to go into Brexit-style ‘tunnel’ until solution is found for impasse

Comreg must be given powers to hound Eir over diabolical customer service

It’s a strange time to redraw aviation policy, but an Oireachtas committee is looking at it

People arriving from EU, US and Canada do not have to self-isolate for two weeks if PCR test is negative

Regulator tells committee it is Eir’s responsibility to fix problems

Report calls for increased testing to allow for greater resumption of overseas travel

Road Safety Authority says 64,500 waiting 25 to 30 weeks due to shortage of testers

Sligo Chamber of Commerce rejects idea that lack of suitably skilled staff was part of problem

Company behind €3bn project accused of not providing sufficient information about the rollout on its website

Eamon Ryan confirms first homes to be connected will be in counties Cavan and Cork

James Lawless, Fergus O’Dowd, Kathleen Funchion and Neasa Hourigan among appointees

Aer Lingus considering moving two Airbus A321 LR craft from Shannon to UK

Dáil operatics on behalf of long-haired as pub grub menu mulled over ahead of reopening

Limerick City candidate elected on eighth count

Fine Gael’s Kieran O’Donnell regained seat lost in 2016

Back in their expensively refurbished Upper House, the talk was still resolutely cheap

Flooding caused by a breach of embankment in Shannon which was followed by high tides

Increase in claimants seeking money for ‘home help’ driving up costs, FBD alleges

New not-for-profit claims it has the potential to take on 28,000 distressed loans

Motorways made the country smaller, but controversies have rarely been far away

Legislative change needed to allow credit unions lend to social housing bodies

Male politicians react smugly as woman senator overreacts to routine sideswipe

Fine Gael Senator says Germany’s Sparkassen model could be adopted here

Sinn Féin TD accuses State Claims Agency of acting like Pontius Pilate by ‘washing hands’ of women

Senators call for the resignation of HSE chief Tony O’Brien