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Too early to assess pandemic response: public health doctors

Make-up of expert group to assess Ireland’s response to Covid-19, is criticised for narrow focus and for lack of frontline workers and patient representatives

Covid-19: ‘There will always be a risk and we have to accept that, but you’ve got to ask when enough is enough’

A total 84 per cent of Covid cases are in the under-45s, a group that remains largely unvaccinated. While one expert says we should reopen further and ‘bite the bullet’, another warns the Delta variant is a ‘cloud on the horizon’

Reopening: Frustrating ‘baby steps’ seen as the best way back to normality

Few risks were taken with pilot gigs like the James Vincent McMorrow concert last Thursday, but experts say this approach was correct despite rising optimism at the accelerated vaccine rollout

Stay or go? Ireland weighs the risks as international travel set to resume

Consumers may be craving a holiday in the sun, but concern at fresh Covid surges and a lack of certainty around vaccine effectiveness against variants mean many of them are choosing to stay home this year

Freedom, with terms and conditions

While we’re not quite in the clear yet, the reopening of society and an attendant return to normality has been made possible by the success of the mass vaccination programme

Danielle Barron: Did the elbow bumps make a difference?

As we take the first steps back towards normality, it’s worth considering how many of our virus protection measures are essential and how many are superfluous or just plain silly

Covid-19: ‘Finally, we are really getting there’

Despite ongoing difficulties, more than two million jabs have been administered, and one in seven adults in Ireland are now fully vaccinated. But what does the post-coronavirus future hold?

Covid-19: Here comes the sun as rollout raises hopes of a brighter future

Society is no longer in suspended animation. But joy at a staged return to normal life is tempered by apprehension on the part of many

Covid-19: is the end of Lockdown 3.0 in sight?

All the signs are of a general easing of cases nationwide, but getting the go-ahead on the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines could finally bring about the reopening we’ve all been longing for

Danielle Barron on Covid-19: Celebrations across the water - are we nearly there yet?

As we gazed in envy at scenes of Britons socialising last week, it seemed like a different world. But experts say we’re not that far away ourselves

Covid-19: One million vaccine jabs done, many more to do

After a year of trauma and disruption things are finally looking up, with 3.9 million doses of the four licensed vaccines set to be delivered between now and the end of June

Covid-19: Outrage, hope, and talking to Joe as national mood tested in busy week

Stephen Donnelly promises a ‘really good summer’ as the vaccine rollout gathers pace, but first there are the queue-jumping scandals, lockdown breaches and illicit haircuts

Beacon fiasco ‘a slap in the face’ to weary nation

As the vaccine waiting game continues, the news that the private hospital had given 20 doses to the teachers of a prestigious private school infuriated an increasingly frustrated public

Stuck in no-man’s land as Covid cases remain stubbornly high

Experts say a slight uptick in social interactions has stalled the drop in case numbers, making the easing of restrictions in early April unlikely

Same message, different year as we try to hold on

Twelve months into the pandemic, what are we doing well or badly? How much has actually changed? And what do we need to be planning for?

New Covid-19 condition adds to worries for expectant mothers

The news that recent stillbirths are associated with Covid-19 placentitis has reignited the debate on why mums-to-be are at the bottom of the vaccination priority list

Lifting of ban on visits to nursing homes now urged

Geriatric specialists say vaccination has reduced the risk hugely, and that leaving the elderly to die alone in homes is ‘inhumane’

‘The next few weeks will give us hope if we can hang in there’

There are still some clouds on the horizon with the threat of new variants, but there is also hope as health workers report real benefits from the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines

Hope springs eternal: HSE plans vaccine surge in April

A last-minute adjustment to ditch the AstraZeneca jab for the over-70s brought another unwelcome delay to the vaccine rollout, but GPs say steady work is being done behind the scenes

A continent on pause: why Europe is still struggling with slow vaccine roll-out

Almost a year into the pandemic, nations across the EU are still struggling to decide on strategy and jump-start a sluggish vaccine roll-out while the US finally gets its act together