A local Fine Gael Senator says mandatory hotel quarantine won’t be a “silver bullet”. Cavan’s Joe O’Reilly said he’s in favour

A local student says it's "hard to keep sane" as a result of school closures and confusion over the Leaving Cert. Daniel Madden is

Secondary students say it's unrealistic for the ASTI to demand the Leaving Cert go ahead as normal this year. The union withdrew from talks

Rural GPs expect the decision not to give the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine to over 70s to be reversed shortly. It's after the World

There's confusion over whether or not Covid positive healthcare workers were housed in the same hotel as non-Covid staff. The issue was raised

The General Manager of a local hotel says the sector would prefer to remain closed until May, if it means "this is the last lockdown".

Just over 243,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered so far. 91,000 of them have been given to nursing home residents and

The Taoiseach says most Level 5 restrictions are likely to continue until Easter. Micheál Martin says Covid numbers are still too high for restrictions