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The walk-in section of the RocDoc rapid Covid test centre at Dublin Airport. Mandatory quarantining of incoming travellers is not workable in the State, Leo Varadkar has said. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Covid-19: Mandatory quarantine for passengers is not workable, Tánaiste says

Mandatory quarantining of incoming travellers is not workable in the State because of the open Border with the North and because it would be dispropor(...)

‘We don’t buy the versions currently on the market, we buy second-hand versions that we ensure that any ability to operate wifi or to engage online is decommissioned’. Photograph: iStock
Prisons source older game consoles to prevent inmates using internet

Prison authorities are sourcing older, second-hand models of games consoles to prevent inmates using internet enabled versions to communicate with peo(...)

British prime minister Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU Commission, had their dinner in Brussels last night as talks drag on. Photograph: Aaron Chown
Brexit talks continue but at this stage prayers may be more useful

Deal or No-Deal The way things are going in Brexit negotiations it would be no great surprise to see Noel Edmonds rock up to 10 Downing Street on Sun(...)

Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, apologising for posting a controversial tweet
Sinn Féin’s Brian Stanley asks to make statement to Dáil over tweets

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has asked the party’s Laois-Offaly TD Brian Stanley to take a week off after following a political controversy over(...)

The Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee report criticises Nama for failing to fully investigate links between Avestus, which was managing the loans for the agency, and the buyer. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Nama’s ‘Project Nantes’ deal cost taxpayers €29m, Dáil Committee finds

The National Assets Management Agency (Nama) faces further grilling on a deal that TDs believe potentially cost taxpayers up to €29 million. Nama’s s(...)

Brian Stanley said his actions were his own. “I take full responsibility for them. There is no one else that needs to take responsibility. I am very conscious of what you have said.” File photgraph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Brian Stanley apologises for controversial tweet at Public Accounts Committee

Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley has apologised for a controversial tweet in which he referenced incidents from the War of Independence and the Troubles. (...)

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Miriam Lord: Chastened celebs mortified in Montrose

Scarleh for everyone in RTÉ. Thoughts and prayers and all that. But the photographs of a number of the national station’s leading news broadcasters (...)

Government Whips have refused Opposition demands to have speaking time set aside in the Dáil for the Minister for Justice to make a statement on the appointment of Séamus Woulfe to the Supreme Court
Varadkar ‘did not know’ names of three judges interested in Supreme Court job

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has told the Dáil he did not know the name of the three sitting judges who expressed an interest in the Supreme Court vacancy th(...)

Taoiseach Micheál Martin. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Taoiseach defends nomination of former Fianna Fáil senator to ethics watchdog

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has defended the appointment of a former Fianna Fáil senator, who lobbied for the National Association of General Practitione(...)

Catherine Murphy speaking to media after talks with the Government about Supreme Court Judge Séamus Woulfe. Photograph: Alan Betson
Oireachtas role in Séamus Woulfe debacle ‘very open question’, says TD

Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy has said it is a “very open question” whether the Oireachtas should deal with the crisis surrounding Supre(...)

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