All changed, changed utterly. These are defining words from another era that described the explosion of violence on the streets around the Easter Rising. But the poetry of WB Yeats poignantly now illustrates a terrible horror rising over our country and planet: Covid-19.

STARRING Jude Law, Rooney Mara, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Steven Soderbergh’s new movie Side Effects is a gripping medical thriller.

No country in modern times has staved off a default with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 150%. Could Greece service its debts over a long-term timeframe, or are we just deluding ourselves, asks Kyran Fitzgerald

The Government will publish its €15bn plan for drastic savings today as it battles economic ruin against a backdrop of political turmoil and a further downgrading of the country's credit rating.