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One of the accommodation units at Glamping under the Stars in Co Laois. Photograph: Glamping under the Stars
Co Laois ‘glamping’ site reopens so locals can holiday at home

As many local businesses in Laois, Kildare and Offaly closed their doors again last week due to coronavirus restrictions, one Laois business saw an op(...)

Members of the public wearing facemasks on Dublin’s Grafton Street on Thursday. Photograph: Collins
Coronavirus: Number of outbreaks in Irish homes rising for five straight weeks

The number of Covid-19 outbreaks in private homes has been rising for five straight weeks, according to the latest analysis by the Central Statistics (...)

A Covid-19 test centre outside Tullamore, Co Offaly. Photograph: Collins
Coronavirus: Irish Dog Foods and Carroll Cuisine facilites to reopen on phased basis

Two of the four Midland meat processing plants hit by Covid-19 outbreaks are reopening on a phased basis. Irish Dog Foods, which stopped production o(...)

Naas, Co Kildare: Funding for tourism for Laois, Offaly and Kildare will be increased. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times
Midlands bailout: 20 per cent top up on restart grants for three counties

The Cabinet has agreed a new package of economic supports for the three midlands counties in partial lockdown which will include a 20 per cent top up (...)

Nine unannounced inspections of meat plants have been carried out by the HSA since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak here. File photograph: Bloomberg
Covid-19: Nine unannounced inspections of meat plants undertaken by HSA since March

Nine unannounced inspections of meat plants have been carried out by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) since lockdown measures were first eased in(...)

Paul Clarke (right, alongside current manager Dessie Farrell) was one of the links with Jim Gavin’s five-in-a-row All-Ireland winners.
Paul Clarke steps aside from Dublin role

There has been a shake-up in Dublin football manager Dessie Farrell’s back-room team. Paul Clarke, one of the links with Jim Gavin’s five-in-a-row All(...)

Files are now being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions in each of the latest 14 new cases.
Gardaí find potential breaches of Covid-19 rules in 14 pubs over past week

The number of pubs where potential breaches of Covid-19 health regulations or licensing laws were detected following Garda inspections is continuing t(...)

New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern. It is held up internationally as the poster child of disease containment but living with the virus requires a different set of policies, more nuanced ones. Photograph: Mark Mitchell/Pool/Getty Images
Moving in and out of lockdown is a recipe for economic disaster

Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, locked down again yesterday after it emerged the country had experienced four new community transmitted cases of(...)

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