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A nurse wearing a protective suit and a face mask uses a nose swab on a patient in a testing area outside a hospital amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Brussels, Belgium September 18, 2020. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

Coronavirus

breaking Coronavirus Ireland: four more deaths and 442 new cases - including 170 in Dublin

The Department of Health has been notified of a further 442 cases of Covid-19 with four new deaths.

Latest News

Diarmuid Connolly retires with six All-Ireland medals to his name. Photo: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Gaelic Football Premium

David Kelly Opinion Diarmuid Connolly polarised opinions like few others but he leaves the county fold as one of the greatest ever

Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn. Photo: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Coronavirus

Nphet recommends new restrictions on household visits for entire country

Twink. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Celebrity News

'A long standing and much loved customer' - SuperValu apologise to Twink after banning her pet parrot from store

Paschal Donohoe. Photo: PA

Politics Premium

Budget 2021: The future of wage subsidies, plans for carbon tax and help for older people – ten things we learned

Top Stories

Supreme Court justice Seamus Woulfe was one of 81 people who attended a dinner in breach of pandemic restrictions relating to indoor gatherings Photo: Collins

News

Chief Justice gave Seamus Woulfe blessing to go on Oireachtas golf outing

Didier Drogba, Florent Malouda and UEFA General Secretary and Director of Football Giorgio Marchetti during the Champions League group stage draw in Geneva, Switzerland

Champions League

breaking Manchester United handed tough group as Champions League draw made

The following are examples of ‘tiny’ portions in the new program: one square of chocolate, three crisps, half a plain biscuit and three soft sweets.

Health

Revealed: Half a biscuit or three crisps a week - new healthy eating guidelines for children

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Coronavirus

20 cases of Covid-19 found among staff and students in one school

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Courts

Afghan refugee not entitled to family reunification here with third wife, court rules

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Education Premium

Dr David Coleman Opinion Top tips for coping as Leaving Cert 2020 chaos fuels anger and anxiety for students

Dr Tony Holohan. Photo: David Conachy

Irish News

Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan to return to his post next week

Kieran Creaven. Photo: Mark Condren

Courts

Ex-RTÉ producer Kieran Creaven 'sexually exploited children via Skype', court told

Video

Storm Alex's likely path

Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing in Downing Street, London (Photo: Jack Hill/The Times/PA Wire)

Brexit Premium

Brexit Briefing: The key questions arising from the EU's groundbreaking legal action against the UK over agreement breach

Featured

No-fly zone: The deserted departures area of Dublin Airport. PHOTO: GERRY MOONEY

Travel News

Ireland's Green List left unchanged, but rising cases could soon see all countries excluded

Ireland's 'Green List' of countries that people can travel to without restricting their movements on return will remain unchanged next week.

Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump in TV mini-series The Comey Rule

TV Reviews

'Gleeson is bit like the shark in Jaws: you can’t see him, but you know he’s out there somewhere' - Comey Report review

25-9-20 Dennika Ward with baby Michael Daithi she gave birth to in her car at Elm Court Service Station in Ballyneety last Monday morning.
Picture: Keith Wiseman

Irish News

'My parents thought I was being a dramatic until I gave birth at a petrol station forecourt'

Diarmuid Connolly of Dublin celebrates against Kerry in 2016

Gaelic Football Premium

Colm Keys Opinion Diarmuid Connolly - One of the most talented players of modern era but often left a sense that there was more to give

Nuala Walsh at home in Cratloe, Co Clare

Homes

Live the light fantastic with views of Bunratty Castle, the Shannon Estuary and the miles and miles of rolling hills

Picture: Chrissy Teigen Instagram

Celebrity News

'Jack worked so hard to be a part of our little family, and he will be, forever' - devastated Chrissy Teigen suffers a miscarriage

Coronavirus: In Focus

Director: Louis Fitzgerald at the bar in The Stag’s Head pub in Dublin Photo: David Conachy

Irish News

'If a train station was given the same signals as the pubs, there’d be crashes all over the country' - Louis Fitzgerald Group announces 'considerable' lay offs

Pub mogul Louis Fitzgerald believes the future of the hospitality sector is bleak as he revealed a “considerable” number of staff will be laid off at his venues from next week.

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Irish News

Ryanair threatens to to close bases at Cork and Shannon for winter unless EU travel list is adopted

Ryanair has threatened to follow through on plans to close its bases at Cork and Shannon for the winter unless the government adopts the EU travel list from October 13.

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Irish

Budget 2021 is the last chance to tackle '€27m per day' hit to sector and protect 300,000 jobs, tourism chiefs warn

Tourism chiefs have warned the Government that Budget 2021 is their last chance to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic hit to the Irish tourism industry which is now costing €27m a day.

Irish News Video

Dr Breda Smyth: How one weekend of socialising caused 30 cases of Covid-19

Editor's Choice

The Government's 'Stay and Spend' scheme was launched today

Travel Premium

Stay and Spend scheme Q&A: How do I claim? How much can I save on my staycation?

'Dapper Don' Christy Kinahan

Crime Premium

Paul Williams Opinion ‘Dapper Don’ Christy Kinahan won’t be worried about a charge of passport fraud, but the net is closing in on the cartel he built

Gwyneth Paltrow posted this picture on Instagram this week

Celebrity

Why Gwyneth Paltrow's naked selfie is the ultimate power move in the post Me-Too era

Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Andrew Harnik/Evan Vucci/AP)

US Presidential Election 2020 Premium

Fionnán Sheahan: Looney Tunes: insult-ridden Trump and Biden debate akin to chaos of Yosemite Sam versus Bugs Bunny

Business Week

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Banking

Revolut to move regulation of Irish accounts to Lithuania

General view of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany (John Walton/PA)

World Premium

Rogue bankers face sack under tougher ECB conduct rules

Founder: Sean Quinn in Ballyconnell, Co Cavan

Irish

Richard Curran Opinion The Quinn name will go but the legacy of group's collapse continues to linger

Adrian Weckler conducting speed tests on Three's 5G mobile network

Technology Premium

Put to the test, can Three's 5G network really deliver breakneck speeds it promises?

Sport

Robbie Brunton in action for Dundalk in 2002

League of Ireland

Tributes pour in following the death of former League of Ireland player Robbie Brunton, aged 47

Leinster players (from left) Johnny Sexton, Luke McGrath, Jamison Gibson-Park and Ross Byrne celebrate their recent PRO14 success

PRO14

Ireland's provinces given green light to kick-off PRO14 season this weekend

Munster’s John Hodnett. Photo: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Rugby Premium

Eight rising stars hoping to make their mark for provinces in Pro14

Dundalk interim head coach Filippo Giovagnoli. Photo: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Soccer

'I have a few knives in my back that I want to take away' - Dundalk boss wants to silence doubters in €3million clash

Marc Ó Sé at the launch of ‘The Toughest Season’, a picture book to be published in collaboration with the GAA’s official photographers, Sportsfile, documenting
this season unlike any other – fans can submit their photos by uploading them to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram using #TheToughest. Photo: Domnick Walsh/Sportsfile

Gaelic Football

'They are vulnerable... I think it's the one year that Dublin can be got at' - Marc Ó Sé

The handball change is just the latest alteration of the rules

Soccer

Sam Wallace Opinion 'Tinkerman' Elleray causes handball pain with 178 law changes over four years

Podcasts

Real Health Podcast

The Real Health Podcast: The truth about calories-in calories-out with Dr. Jason Fung

It’s fair to say that weight loss tips and weight loss interviews are some of the most popular episodes we have done on Real Health over the course of our three years. People are constantly struggling with their weight, lifestyle and exercise.

Donnacha Ryan, left, and Simon Zebo are set to play in the Champions Cup final against Exeter Chiefs. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

The Left Wing

The Left Wing: Donnacha Ryan's influence, South Africa come north and provinces take stock

On this week's episode of The Left Wing, Will Slattery and Luke Fitzgerald are joined by Cian Tracey to discuss all the latest news in the rugby world.

New Irish Writing

New Irish Writing: Listen to David Ralph read 'Taghazout', this month's winning short story

New Irish Writing, the competition that has fostered generations of leading Irish authors, returns to the Irish Independent today, Saturday, September 26.

Newsletters

7 Things: Adrian Weckler on Tech newsletter

Newsletters

Weekly roundup of technology news, reviews and opinion from tech editor Adrian Weckler

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Opinion & Analysis

Measure: Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe on Budget Day last year. Photo: REUTERS/Lorraine O'Sullivan

Comment Premium

Dan O'Brien Opinion As Budget Day approaches, there is both good news and bad - but it's mostly bad

When it comes to autumn, however, it's really all about the trees. 'Fall, leaves, fall,' wrote Emily Bronte in her rather melancholy autumn ode, while Yeats famously celebrated the trees at Coole Park 'in their autumn beauty'. Photo: Chris Ison/PA

Comment Premium

Roslyn Dee Opinion Let's take time for trees as we turn new leaf

Having mounted a huge response effort back in March Ireland now finds itself stuck with the UK and United States still in the emergency phase of the crisis as infections rise once more and lockdowns spread. We urgently need to start plotting a recovery.

Irish

David Chance Opinion After good start our Covid response has fallen behind

Dying with dignity? This is euthanasia - and a slippery slope to normalising suicide

Patricia Casey

Legal action inevitable if college places aren’t made available to students who deserved them all along

John Walshe

Guarding integrity in banking must be a Europe-wide project

Videos

Storm Alex's likely path

Feisty Trump says he 'really enjoyed' first debate

'Will you shut up man?' – Insults and interruptions dominate Trump and Biden's first debate

Shell to slash up to 9,000 jobs worldwide following collapse in oil demand

A nurse wearing a protective suit and a face mask uses a nose swab on a patient in a testing area outside a hospital amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Brussels, Belgium September 18, 2020. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

Explainer: How new Covid-19 test aims to be faster and cheaper

Life

Nuala Walsh at home in Cratloe, Co Clare

Homes

Live the light fantastic with views of Bunratty Castle, the Shannon Estuary and the miles and miles of rolling hills

166 South Circular Road

Homes

Four on the market: along the South Circular Road in Dublin 8

Steering into the future: The Volkswagen electric ID.4

Motoring

Wave of new models as makers hope for more buyers in 2021

Challenges: Rose Mary Roche pictured in the garden of her home in Kilkenny. Photo: Dylan Vaughan

Life Premium

Fighting fifties: Why women my age need a mid-life manifesto

Cold comfort: Mary Sexton pictured at Dublin’s Forty Foot. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Health & Wellbeing Premium

All at sea: The new swimmer's guide to braving winter waters

The windowless lock-up at 1a FitzGibbon lane

Homes

Fix it up: A lock-up mews at the back of Mountjoy Square, D1

Style

One reader wonders will she always feel like the "grass could be greener".

Sex & Relationships

Dear Mary: Weekend flirtation has led to doubts about boyfriend

Gwyneth Paltrow posted this picture on Instagram this week

Celebrity

Why Gwyneth Paltrow's naked selfie is the ultimate power move in the post Me-Too era

The Skin Nerd

Beauty Premium

Why Covid stress is ruining your skin - and how to fix it

Style

'We are like a Netflix couple' - Alicia Vikander opens up about married life with Michael Fassbender

'Honour': Fashion blogger Florence Ojo, who started her own clothing and lifestyle range

Music News

'I thought it was a scam!': Irish fashionista in Pharrell and Jay-Z's video

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Life Premium

Ask the therapist: I'm working and my husband still expects me to do all the chores - yet he's out of work and minding the kids at home

Entertainment

Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump in TV mini-series The Comey Rule

TV Reviews

'Gleeson is bit like the shark in Jaws: you can’t see him, but you know he’s out there somewhere' - Comey Report review

Graham Norton (Matt Crossick/PA)

Television

'I don't need to see a man dancing with a man' - Graham Norton says same-sex Strictly Come Dancing pairings 'confusing' for judges

Video

Greg O'Shea sends a Great Big Irish Thank You message of support to Ireland's frontline heroes

Princess Diana (Emma Corrin) features in the highly-anticipated fourth series of The Crown

TV News

Netflix releases first look pictures of series four of The Crown

Dreyfus affair: Harris worked with controversial director Roman Polanski for an adapation of one of his novels, but the film has yet to be released

Books

Robert Harris on Brexit, Polanski and his new novel: 'Brexiteers have been indulged like spoilt schoolchildren'

Sacha Baron Cohen’s sequel to the 2006 hit comedy Borat will premiere on Amazon Prime Video (Ian West/PA)

Movie News

Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Borat 2' set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video before US Election Day

Travel

Basking sharks swimming in Keem Bay, Achill Island

Video

'Gentle Giants' - 30-foot basking sharks filmed swimming off Achill Island

Make the time: Kinesale is magical - Charles Fort

Entertainment

From ports to forts: Some enchanted evenings in Kinsale

Sheen Falls Lodge, Co. Kerry

Travel Talk Premium

Five-star steals: 10 best luxury hotel deals around Ireland this autumn

Doonmore, Inishbofin. Photo: Conor Power

Ireland Premium

Inishbofin: An Atlantic adventure that defies comparison with other islands

Travelling solo can bring rich rewards. solo traveller. Photo: PA Photo/iStock.

Travel

How to solo travel the world (when it's safe to travel again)

Passengers at Heathrow Airport (Aaron Chown/PA)

Travel News

Travellers in Czech Republic and Switzerland rush to beat UK quarantine measures

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