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Government seeking to avoid ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown as ICU crisis looms

Officials already exploring alternatives to December lockdown, with priority being to keep retail open in run-up to Christmas

Government to seek agreement with chemists to roll out subsidised antigen tests

Ministers hope the measure could help to minimise the chance of further restrictions before Christmas

Love thyself: The long, hard road to body acceptance

Plenty of people have put on a few extra pounds during the interminable lockdown, but life is simply too short to feel bad about such things

Bank of Ireland records busiest month ever for debit card transactions

Increased spending on hospitality due to the easing of lockdown restrictions fuels surge

Experts predict Covid cases will reach ‘elimination levels’ by year end

The Irish Epidemiological Advisory Group has projected a number of models of the progress of Covid-19 in Ireland, the most likely being a six-month period during which cases peak in summer and reduce back by the end of 2021

Tony O’Brien: High-speed reopening gives no time to evaluate its impact

The government’s reopening plan comes with the knowledge that the vaccine programme here needs to be substantially completed if its gains are to mean anything

Opinion: Do Ireland’s policy leaders suffer from a lack of skin in the game?

There may be a moral hazard in how those who implement lockdowns do not tend to be the ones who suffer the consequences

Someone to lean on: friendship in a pandemic

The pandemic may be keeping us apart, but true friendships will last through these difficult times. We talk to three sets of friends about their relationships during the lockdowns

Tomás Ryan: A fourth wave of Covid is not inevitable – it’s a choice

We can turn this around, and it doesn’t have to mean living in lockdown for most of the year. It means learning from successful counties and pushing Covid cases down to low numbers

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

Emer McLysaght: Letting go of the lockdown

Getting back to ‘normal’ will be strange and, for some of us, downright scary – so let’s just take it one day at a time

Anti-lockdown protesters to target RTÉ on St Patrick’s Day

Gardaí are aware of the planned event, which has been organised in conspiracy groups on Facebook

Analysis: Lockdown fatigue grows but majority do not want to ease restrictions

Some 85 per cent of the public say current response to Covid-19 is either appropriate or does not go far enough

Emer McLysaght: Meeting the many manifestations of lockdown madness head on

In these strange days, the only consolation is the knowledge that everybody else has gone a little bit crazy too