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Paul Reid of the HSE is not happy with the development. Photo: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Health

Anger grows over early vaccinations for workers in private hospitals

There is growing anger over the vaccination of staff in private hospitals and clinics ahead of frontline public healthcare workers.

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly clashed with Leas-Ceann Comhairle Catherine Connolly

Comment Premium

Some advice for the Minister for Vaccines: Don’t hector female TDs, ignore the cranks, and give basic answers

Keep it simple.

Pursuing the dream: Aoife O’Sullivan and partner Julien Bailly

Travel Premium

‘I would liken it to Ireland 25 years ago’ - Meet the Irishwoman building a bamboo hotel in Sri Lanka

Tanáiste Leo Varadkar also stated that many employers are currently paying for office space and utilities while supporting staff who work from home. Photo: Julien Behal Photography

Irish News

Home workers to receive new package of tax incentives in the next Budget, says Tánaiste

TV News

‘I don’t think anyone in their right mind would object to him’ – Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan hopes Jamie Dornan joins cast of hit show

Munster players (l-r) Craig Casey, Rory Scannell, Shane Daly and Tadhg Beirne following defeat by Leinster in the Guinness PRO14 semi-final at the Aviva Stadium last September. Photo: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Munster Rugby Premium

'At the moment, hurling is sexy and everyone wants to play it' - How Limerick's success is damaging Munster rugby

Top Stories

A south Dublin school principal has written to parents about disruption by pupils during online classes. Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

Education

Schools on security alert as gardaí probe online class breach

Limerick's Gearóid Hegarty. Photo: Sportsfile

Hurling

Hegarty, Bennett and Kelly up for top award as Treaty get 14 nominees

A container ship arrives into Dublin Port as a spokesman for the Freight Transport Association Ireland has told the Taoiseach in a letter that the new Brexit requirements see the industry struggling to keep the flow of goods moving. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Irish News Premium

‘It’s a shambles’ – Hauliers warn of food shortages as Brexit causes delays at Dublin Port

New normal: Our homes are now doubling up in function, adding a home office can increase value

Personal Finance Premium

From mortgage switching to retrofitting – how your house can help your wallet

Fungie the dolphin in Dingle bay, Co Kerry

Irish News

Dingle ‘at a crossroads’ as tourism benefits fail to trickle down locally

Designer Simone Rocha. Photo: Stuart C Wilson/Getty Images

News

Criticism for Simone Rocha as H&M says her range will not cater for ‘all sizes’

Damien Duff has previously ruled out management in Ireland, but he has changed his mind before. He once said ‘not one per cent of him had an urge to go and work with the FAI’ before years later joining Stephen Kenny’s Ireland backroom team. Photo: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

International Soccer Premium

Three jobs, three exits and a lot of unanswered questions - what is going on with Damien Duff's coaching career?

Protesters Jacob Anthony Chansley (left) from Arizona and Aaron Mostofsky, son of Kings County Supreme Court Judge Shlomo Mostofsky, inside the US Capitol in Washington DC. Photo: Reuters/Mike Theiler

North America

Rioters ‘planned to assassinate officials’ at US Capitol

Mother and Baby Homes

An image from Sean Ross Abbey mother and baby home in Tipperary in the mid-20th century.

Irish News Premium

State spent decades paying Catholic Church to hide society’s problems

Catherine Coffey O’Brien has called for a proper examination of the site at Bessborough. Photo: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision

Irish News

Campaigners want final resting places of those who died in mother and baby homes marked

Baby shoes at the burial site of the mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway. Photo: Hany Marzouk

Irish News Premium

Mystery persists around the final resting places of 5,000 discarded children

Catherine Corless stands beside the list of childrens names at the Tuam mother and babies site

Comment Premium

Martina Devlin Opinion Cruel solution suited Church, State and society – everyone but mothers and babies

Videos

Taoiseach: Hospitals experiencing worst week of pandemic

Countdown game leaves Ireland AM presenters red-faced

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar published Ireland’s first National Remote Work Strategy yesterday. Photo: Julien Behal

Work-from-home laws to create a ‘whole new world’ for employees

Leo Varadkar on plans to promote working from home

What is known about the Brazilian coronavirus variant?

Weekend Magazine

Mary Kenny. Photograph: Naomi Gaffey

Life Premium

Mary Kenny Opinion ‘Like her or loather her, you have to acknowledge Meghan Markle is the undisputed queen of soft power’

In this century, “soft power” is often said to have replaced “hard power”: that is, the power of enormous influence over the lives of millions has replaced tanks and guns. For example, Sweden’s power no longer lies with its military policies, which once commanded so much of northern Europe: Swedish power is now invested in Ikea, Volvo and Spotify.

Stock image

Life Premium

Ellen Coyne Opinion ‘The only people who benefitted from our relentless rise-and-grind culture were cheap employers’

When this is all over, I hope I get to keep an acute sense of my own uselessness. In the grand, existential scheme of things it’s been hard to take myself or my job too seriously this year. One of the best things we can take from the pandemic is a clear appreciation of who is and who is not essential, and what jobs are and are not truly important.

Psychotherapist Sarah Crosby. Photograph: Steve Humphreys

Health & Wellbeing Premium

‘They told me I wasn’t mentally ill, I just had a high IQ… I was livid’

Age-old problem: How its now fiftysomething stars dress in the Sex and the City reboot

Style

How will the new ‘Sex and the City’ reboot deal with fashion’s ageism problem?

Clonanny Farm delivers fresh produce direct to your door

Life Premium

30 of the best healthy food boxes

Ultimate chilli

Recipes Premium

Donal Skehan’s one-pot wonder winter warmers

Featured

Sinead Burke

Life Premium

The year of radical thinking: 21 big ideas for 2021

Author, advocate and activist

‘Society still sees us as taboo’: Caitríona Palmer made contact with her birth mother, but has since lost touch

News Premium

‘Sex was the big sin, worse than violence’: Ireland’s cruelty to single mothers

In the 1930s, when Catholic rule in Ireland was in its pomp, the Archbishop of Tuam issued instructions for single mothers to be denounced from the pulpit.

‘QAnon Shaman’: Jake Angeli before the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters

Life

What is QAnon? Explaining the conspiracy cult that sees Trump as a messianic genius

Lough Salt, Co Donegal. Photo: Fáilte Ireland

Travel

Pól Ó Conghaile Opinion 'The season of hanging on' - A thank you to Ireland's tourism and hospitality heroes

Old Bawn Beach, from the Cahore Point Trail. Photo: VisitWexford.ie

Walks

Walk the Cahore Point Trail in Wexford - a 5km loop that ends with perfect pub grub

Donald Trump visits the US-Mexico border wall, in Alamo, Texas on Tuesday this week

News Premium

Hitting the wall: the mounting barriers to a Trump comeback

Coronavirus: In Focus

Bernie McAndrew (57) died suddenly in her home

Irish News Premium

Ambulances driving 300km round-trip journey to treat Covid-stricken north Mayo town

Ambulances from as far away as Galway and Leitrim had to travel to north Mayo this week – some round trips of more than 300km – to rush dangerously ill Covid-19 positive locals to hospital.

Paramedics at the Mater Hospital in Dublin. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Irish News

Some patients ‘waiting more than 100 hours for a bed’ as hospitals on the brink amid crippling staff shortages

Hospitals across the country are coming under increasing pressure as the number of Covid-19 patients escalates amid crippling staff shortages.

Vaccination is under way across Ireland with health workers among the first to receive it.

Irish News Premium

Vaccination race to defeat coronavirus must also overcome hurdle of supply

Hospitals are full, new and more infectious variants of coronavirus are stalking us and there is no clear end to lockdown in sight.

Dr Tony Holohan. Photo: Colin Keegan/ Collins

Irish News

People travelling from Brazil asked to self-isolate and have Covid-19 test urgently

A new alert has been raised about another potentially more infectious strain of coronavirus, originating in Brazil, as the death toll from Covid-19 continues to mount.

Editor's Choice

Ivanka Trump speaks during a campaign event in Iowa in November. Photo: AP

News

You’ve burnt so many bridges, Ivanka — was it really worth it?

Knockdrin Castle and estate is located 3km from Crookedwood, Co Westmeath and is a 10-minute drive from Mullingar.

Leinster Farm Sales Premium

Multimillionaire couple splash €10m on 1,180ac estate and farm

Snowdon in North Wales, photographed from Howth, Co Dublin. Pic: Niall O'Carroll

Travel News

'I was surprised by how clear it was' - Stunning photo of snowy Wales taken from Dublin

Sean and Brid O'Toole on their wedding day in Baltinglass, Co Wicklow in 1958

News Premium

'It’s frighteningly quick the way it can dispense with somebody’s life’ – Family who buried parents on the same day pleads with public to respect Covid rules

Sport

Brian Fenton, Ciarán Kilkenny and James McCarthy

Gaelic Football

It's Dublin v Mayo in the battle to be crowned Footballer of the Year

Stoke City's Irish midfielder James McClean. Photo: Nathan Stirk/Getty Images

Soccer

James McClean suspended by Stoke City over breach of Covid-19 regulations

What probables v possibles might look like

Six Nations Premium

Probables v Possibles on paper shows good options for Farrell

Leinster are on alert as assistant coach and legendary former player Felipe Contepomi considers his options. Photo: Sportsfile

Rugby

Leinster set to host Gloucester as Champions Cup pool stage abandoned

Ireland head coach Adam Griggs this week received the news that the 2021 Women’s Six Nations has been postponed. Photo: Sportsfile

Rugby Premium

David Kelly Opinion Women's rugby can turn Six Nations crisis into glorious opportunity for growth

Paddy Andrews. Photo: Sportsfile

Gaelic Football Premium

Conor McKeon Opinion High-calibre Andrews gave Dublin 'added value'

Podcasts

The Big Tech Show

The Big Tech Show: Giant TVs and robots – Samsung’s top man tells us what the future holds

Adrian’s guest this week is Conor Pierce, Samsung’s Irish-born corporate vice president for the UK and Ireland.

Emer Currie contracted Covid-19 back in October and had to stay away from her two daughters while she self-isolated in her bedroom. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Coronavirus

The Floating Voter: FG Senator opens up on impact of Covid-19 diagnosis on family

Real Health Podcast

The Real Health Podcast: Feel great, lose weight with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

Opinion & Analysis

Education Minister Norma Foley recognised the urgency in getting children with special needs back to school. Photo: Julien Behal

Comment Premium

Larissa Nolan Opinion It took the parents of special needs kids to stand up to the unions

Trauma: ‘There is a deep scar running through our national psyche and the abomination of these mother and baby homes is one of the main reasons’

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Ian O'Doherty Opinion There is plenty of blame to go around, but the church must pay

Vickie McCarthy Keane finds the dramatic landscape of the Burren in Co Clare inspirational

Comment Premium

Billy Keane Opinion Seventy-year safekeeping of dad’s poetry inspired a woman with poems in her eyes to return to the craft

Free speech gives nobody the right to spread hate speech – not even the US President

Emma Kelly

Brutally prudish society weaponised shame against its most vulnerable

Gerard O'Regan

Goodbye to the briquette – it warmed homes and hearts but it helped to fuel the rise in global temperatures too

Caroline O'Doherty

Life

Emer Currie contracted Covid-19 back in October and had to stay away from her two daughters while she self-isolated in her bedroom. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Coronavirus

‘My kids didn’t understand why I couldn’t cuddle them’ – Fine Gael senator Emer Currie opens up on anguish of Covid self-isolation

Secret weapon: Canny, energetic and low-key, Jill Biden was a constant companion by her husband’s side on the campaign trail. Photo: Getty Images

Life Premium

Teacher, activist, gran, and ‘prankster’: The colourful life and career of new First Lady Jill Biden

There are innovative ways to forge relationship with co-workers

In The Workplace Premium

Don’t worry, it’s not another Zoom quiz: Five ways to reconnect with your co-workers during lockdown

Pilates instructor Eva Berg with the Water Rower. Photo: Owen Breslin

Fitness Premium

On a fitness drive? From treadmills to climbers and benches, here’s our expert guide to the best home gym equipment

Little ears: Chrissie Russell is careful when talking about her own dieting in front of her sons Finn and Tom

Parenting Premium

It’s New Year. You’re on a diet. Should you tell your kids?

It’s not easy for students to know what their ideal career might be. Picture posed

Editorial Premium

Trying to discern what our daughter actually wants to do with her life after the Leaving is the hard part

Style

Ivanka Trump speaks during a campaign event in Iowa in November. Photo: AP

News

You’ve burnt so many bridges, Ivanka — was it really worth it?

Journalist Emily Hourican loves her Botox

Health & Wellbeing Premium

Emily Hourican: Botox makes me happy – and I have the research to prove it

Actress Daisy Edgar-Jones dressed in Simone Rocha x H&M for the announcement of the H&M´s new collaboration. Photographer: Amy Gwatkin

Fashion News

Simone Rocha becomes the first Irish designer to do a collaboration with H&M

Author Sally Rooney. Photo: Kalpesh Lathigra

Life Premium

Tanya Sweeney Opinion Why do so many people hate Sally Rooney? Could it be that she’s a young, attractive, successful woman?

Mairead Ronan has been off the air since last week. Photo: Brian McEvoy

News

‘I feel so disappointed because we have been so careful' – Mairead Ronan’s family tests positive for Covid-19

Grainne Gallanagh celebrates with her sister as she ends self-isolation period after contracting virus. PIC: Grainne Gallanagh/Instagram

News

Dancing with the Stars’ Grainne Gallanagh celebrates with her sister as she ends self-isolation period after contracting virus

Entertainment

'The Menace' said he has not left the show and it's down to scheduling why he hasn't been featured recently

Television

Irish chaser Darragh ‘The Menace’ Ennis puts rumours to bed that he was sacked from The Chase

The actor said he is “sold” on editing out the US President’s role. Photo by: PA

Movies

Macaulay Culkin said he is ‘sold’ on idea to edit out Donald Trump from Home Alone

Liam Neeson. Getty Images

Celebrity News

‘I love beating up guys half my age’ – Liam Neeson says he plans to retire from action films

Brian O'Driscoll and Amy Huberman

Celebrity News

Amy Huberman’s joy as second season of her comedy launches overseas

Jodie Whittaker in the Doctor Who New Year special (James Pardon/BBC/PA)

TV News Premium

Who will be Doctor Who next if Jodie Whittaker leaves?

Zack Snyder on set of Army Of The Dead (CLAY ENOS/NETFLIX)

Movies

Netflix announces slate of 70 films for 2021

Travel

An electronic sign advises travellers to wear face masks and practice social distancing while passing through the main terminal of Denver International Airport (David Zalubowski/AP)

Travel News

US will require all arriving passengers to get Covid-19 test

International arrivals to England and Scotland must test negative for Covid-19 (Yui Mok/PA)

Travel News

New rules for travellers arriving in England to come into force from Friday

Great Blasket Island, Co Kerry

Irish News

Couple to re-advertise coveted caretaker job at off-the-grid Great Blasket Island

Spain, Mallorca

Travel Talk Premium

Pól Ó Conghaile Opinion The 400,000 Club: What next for those who rescheduled their holidays to 2021?

Pre-departure rapid Covid-19 testing facility which has been launched at Heathrow. Photo: LHR Airports Limited/PA

Travel News Premium

Travel Q&A: Airlines warn passengers from Britain they ‘may be prosecuted on arrival’ without negative test result

Ashford Castle, Cong, Co. Mayo.

Ireland

Maintenance should be 'invisible' to guests - so what does it take to keep Ashford Castle ticking over?

Farming Independent

Noel Tierney

Machinery

Video: Farmer opens up about death of his son who tried to save him from slurry gas

Knockdrin Castle and estate is located 3km from Crookedwood, Co Westmeath and is a 10-minute drive from Mullingar.

Leinster Farm Sales Premium

Multimillionaire couple splash €10m on 1,180ac estate and farm

MAKING IT PAY: Under a hire purchase contract, ownership of the machine does not pass to the farmer or contractor until the final instalment is paid

Machinery Premium

Hire purchase versus leasing machinery -- the legal and tax angles

Rabbi-approved: Kevin Scully of The Merry Mill sells kosher oats to Jerusalem

Tillage Premium

It’s all about premium products for the producer of Ireland’s only gluten-free organic oats

Forward planning: Married couples should look at the possibility of maximising future reliefs available by recognising their farming partnership with the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Social Protection early on in the business lifecycle.

Farming Premium

The financial pros and cons of joint land ownership for farming couples

Rights of way can be controversial

Legal Advice Premium

Legal advice: Don’t let right of way issues be a no-go area

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