Radio: The young women’s ordeal last year gets a superbly vivid, tense retelling from Lorna Siggins

Opinions veer from ‘it’s clear this is a natural virus’ to ‘it’s not acting like a typical virus’

How to stay safe as the phased reopening of retail, personal care and museums begins

‘Incredible honour’ for international leader in the field of innate immunity

By Aisling Bea, Mary McAleese, Richard Ford, Marian Keyes, Tolü Makay, Blindboy and more

Conor Pope on the prospects for foreign travel and sunshine vacations in 2021

Trinity professor also tells industry body that he supports antigen testing for events

Niac to discuss key elements of the State’s plan on Thursday

Senior medics say a significant benefit to the vaccination programme would be needed to justify extending the gap

Minister for Health is awaiting a recommendation on whether to extend interval

Inflazome sells to Swiss pharma giant Roche for an initial €380 million

Editor Richard Downes hopes refreshed show can keep Covid audience ‘dividend’

High Covid-19 numbers and a slow vaccine rollout is stopping Government doing more

Experts say State must balance restrictions with rewards to maintain public buy-in

Soundtrack of My Life: The scientist on tracks that have helped him through the pandemic

Analysis: Danger of falling ill from Covid-19 appears far greater than the threat of blood clotting

Patrick Freyne: Eating with the Enemy is a televisual response to our endless opinionising

Vaccines and strengthened disease surveillance are critical in year two of the pandemic

Masks don’t work. Travel isn’t a major factor. Vaccines will solve it all. And other myths

Covid-19, one year on: The virus was first detected in Ireland on February 29th, 2020

Profs Sam McConkey, Aoife McLysaght and Luke O’Neill on becoming household names

Annual awards ceremony on live stream from Dublin city centre on Friday evening

Much research demonstrates that consuming too much bad news takes a toll on health

Nphet reports 79 further fatalities as ‘level of infection remains twice that of October peak’

The Government is following a suppression strategy. Opposition parties favour ‘zero Covid’

‘I firmly believe Scottish independence will happen,’ Scotland’s first minister has said

‘I’ve always had the view that if I was able to do a job, I should put my name forward’

Fatigue, addled daydreams and the reassurance of an oximeter

Gabriel Byrne, Nicola Sturgeon, Emma Dabiri and more to appear at the online festival

Acute hospital system under severe pressure after 156 further admissions in 24 hours

Outbreaks of infection in nursing homes increases steadily over past month

TV review: In fairness, there are sections where it doesn’t feel like an endurance test

Prof Luke O’Neill says pharmaceutical sector has highest standards of regulation and validation

BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2021 features livestreamed events from Dublin’s Mansion House

Variant strain and ‘symptomless spread’ suggest threat has become more significant

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Tess Lambe estimates three billion doses of the Covid-19 jab will be available to distribute

Prominent immunologist ‘90% confident’ suitable vaccine will be found because of scale of research undertaken

Roche recently paid €380m for the company founded by Mr Cooper and Prof Luke O’Neill

Agrochemicals company employs more than 70 people and generates €60m in revenue