The scale and sweep of the pandemic aversion measures announced and extended by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar this afternoon are unprecedented.

A fourth patient diagnosed with Covid-19 in Ireland has died.

I T was a meeting and a statement which football fans have been waiting anxiously for but, despite its welcome conclusion, nobody should be pencilling April 30 into their diary.

As the Dáil reconvened to enact emergency coronavirus legislation, as the first death was recorded in Northern Ireland, and as oral and practical exams for Junior and Leaving Cert students were cancelled it might be all too easy to fret, to be sceptical about our capacity to overcome this threat.

A respiratory consultant has urged the government to protect the country’s stock of ventilators, many of which are manufactured here.

Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty has said she hopes that the government will not need to enact powers to monitor mass gatherings or treat those affected by the virus, but who refuse to self-isolate.

The coronavirus pandemic will pass, and when it does we will reflect of how we reacted to it.

Covid-19 will usher in a new era where work from home is an increasing part of people’s regular schedule.

Ireland will remain outside the American coronavirus travel ban, President Trump has confirmed.