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Thursday 22 October 2020
The entire country has now entered Level 5 of Covid-19 restrictions.
Two households can meet outdoors for things like exercise, funerals allowed up to 25 mourners, and fines for breaching the rules.
The remaining records would be sealed for 30 years under a 2004 Act.
Robin Swann received an exposure notification this evening from the StopCovid NI proximity app.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said that the HSE has been repeatedly asked whether it has enough contact-tracing capacity.
Driver theory tests are being suspended for a period of six weeks.
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Here’s your round-up of what made headlines today.
It’s a coronavirus-free zone as we bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
The reports, authored by Prof Susan O’Reilly and Prof Risteárd Ó Laoide, were published today.
Gardaí have thanked the public for their assistance in the matter.
Ireland rugby star Sene Naoupu says she is excited that fans will now be able to buy the women’s replica shirt.
The dolphin has not been seen since he disappeared last week.
That’s according to Andrew McCormick, Stormont’s lead official on EU exit.
The six-week restrictions begin tomorrow.
The action has been taken by Samantha Sinnott, a midwife at Wexford General Hospital.
A 36-year-old man denies having taken any videos or photos of proceedings.
It’s in our hands. Together we can get through this.
The GUI and ILGU say they have sought clarity over whether driving ranges and practice facilities can remain open for exempted activities.
The latest figures come in ahead of the introduction of Level 5, which is due to take effect tonight.
More than 2,000 people are being expected to do their own contact tracing this week.
The fines will not come into effect for another week or two.
Members of the UK’s House of Lords addressed an Oireachtas Committee about the Internal Market Bill.
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Dr Day said today the current Direct Provision system is “reactive” and said that people living in the system “bear the consequences” of its failures.
Lecturer Maeve O’Rourke analyses the government’s nine main arguments in relation to the Bill.
Edwin Poots has accused Sinn Féin of trying to “distort and twist” his comments.
The burglaries took place over the last number of months.
Phil Ni Sheaghdha says PPE has improved but greater supports are needed.
The HSE is to ask more than 2,000 people who received a positive Covid-19 test result last week to alert their own close contacts.
South Yorkshire will be the latest region to be put under Tier 3 of restrictions.
Dublin and Galway were set to meet in the final of the U20 Football Championship on Saturday, but that will not go ahead.
240g jars of the brand’s Cashew Crunch sauce are potentially unsafe.
The Minister for Finance met with representatives from Ulster Bank today.
Stephen Kenny’s men will square off with Gareth Southgate and his charges before Ireland’s Nations League clashes with Wales and Bulgaria.
Ed Byrne and Jamison Gibson-Park are set for their first caps off the bench against Italy.
The incident happened in Porterstown Park on Sunday morning.
The transition period in which to agree a trade deal between the EU and UK ends on 31 December.
The introduction of rapid testing could be effective in Ireland in future, but we need to see its “real-world performance” here first, Hiqa said.
Many Irish businesses have an online presence and in the run-up to Christmas will rely heavily on support here at home.
President Michael D Higgins gave a speech to the Engineers Ireland Conference this morning.
The drugs were discovered after a vehicle was stopped in the Clondalkin area of west Dublin yesterday.
The trade arrangements in place between Australia and the EU are nothing like a free-trade deal, writes Neale Richmond.
WITH LEVEL 5 restrictions coming into effect at midnight until 1 December, many businesses will be forced to close for the next six weeks.
Of course, many Irish businesses have an online presence and in the run-up to Christmas will rely heavily on support here at home.
As the festive season approaches we want to know: Will you make an extra effort to ‘buy irish’ this Christmas?
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