The Department of Health's Dr Tony Holohan is to be granted the Freedom of the City of Dublin.

Underlining that fate is indeed blind, Dr Holohan has had to step back from his role as chief medical officer to care for his wife Dr Emer Feely who has multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. She entered palliative care last Saturday.

Gardaí will begin inspecting bars and restaurants in order to ensure compliance with Covid-19 guidelines this weekend.

Ireland's official figure of 1,700 coronavirus deaths during the pandemic may be a “slight overestimate” but it is an accurate one, an analysis by the Health Information and Quality Authority has found.

"A giant of a man in terms of his service to the state and its citizens, he has piloted our collective boat thus far through the choppiest of seas, spawning a constancy of calm confidence while holding the stark 'data-cards' of the roughest of deals."

The official Covid-19 death toll stands at 1,738.

A charity is urging caution against house parties and large gatherings of friends this weekend.

The public face of the coronavirus crisis has stepped down from his role to be with family as his wife enters palliative care for cancer.

Led by Dr Bidisha Ghosh, assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin's School of Engineering, the RedMap project will measure and model real-world emissions from more than 150,000 vehicles at four locations.

One in 10 people attending a sex assault treatment unit were the victims of multiple attackers, a statistic described as "shocking and horrific" by Rape Crisis Network Ireland.

Ireland's mental health system is "30 years behind" its UK counterpart according to the Mental Health Commission's chief executive.

Breccia, a company linked to businessman Larry Goodman, has been granted judgment by the High Court for €7.89m, plus substantial legal costs, against Dr Joseph Sheehan, a co-founder of Dubin's Blackrock Clinic.

The mother of a 14-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who on Wednesday secured a €3m interim settlement in his action over the circumstances of his birth has told the High Court the system should be easier for families.

Covid-19 has changed our world. The changes are dramatic, sobering, and humbling — they remind us emphatically of our vulnerability, of our dust-to-dust inevitability.

Dr Jack Lambert, specialist in infectious disease at the Mater hospital, Dublin has said that if people observe the appropriate safety guidelines then it is safe to travel.

Dr Wendy Oke speaks to Eve Kelliher about providing educators the platform to help children develop

Dr Ray Griffin, strategic management lecturer at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), said the "political antenna of Dublin and Cork has no understanding of the depth of alienation in the southeast".

A man who attempted to murder a teenager at a popular Dublin hiking spot and later tried to strangle a psychiatric nurse with a sock has attacked another prisoner in Mountjoy Prison with a hot kettle, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A Dublin footballer has warned young people that coronavirus can affect anyone.

A dentist who admitted professional misconduct over failure to carry out a biopsy of a lesion in the floor of a patient's mouth has had conditions imposed on his registration by the High Court.

From next month, Irish people will be able to go on holiday to some countries without having to quarantine when they come back.

A selection of people from across Irish society look at how far the country has progressed in diversity and inclusion. Interviews by Sandra O'Connell

Chief medical officer, Dr Tony Holohan, says he's “beyond worried” Covid-19 infections could increase here when more air travel is allowed into the country.

Dr Catherine Motherway has called for extra bed capacity to be created in Irish hospitals between now and the autumn.

Dr Colm Henry of the HSE said the new HPV test would be used when screening started next month. Women will start receiving letters for a CervicalCheck screening appointment from July 6 and the HSE expects to clear a backlog that built up because of Covid-19 by October.

Dr William Flannery said psychiatrists were “dismayed and disillusioned” by the recently launched ‘Share the Vision’ strategy which, focused more on wellbeing than on psychiatry.

A study undertaken by Dr John Cullinan and Dr Margaret Hodgins at NUI Galway found that a total of 1.7 million days are lost due to workplace bullying every year, at a cost of €239m to the economy.

A UCC Sport initiative focusing on sport post-lockdown has attracted worldwide interest and support, with UNESCO, the World Health Organisation and the International Olympic Committee among its supporters.

Children have brought the virus, social distancing, and lockdown restrictions into play-time, including references to death, handwashing or pretending to be ‘the coronavirus’ in chase games, new research has found.

W HEN Johnny Ryan blew the half-time whistle in the 2014 Dublin-Waterford league relegation final, the four members of the Waterford management surrounded Johnny as effectively as a Tyrone or Armagh blanket defence would have done when they first started gobbling up opposition forwards.

Coping with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) can be challenging at the best of times, but it is even more difficult in the middle of a global health pandemic.

Munster and Leinster have been given the greenlight to return to training on Monday by IRFU medics.

The government is asking the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) to reconsider the cap on the number of people attending religious services.

Dr Brendan McCormack has said that the college will offer "blended learning" between on-campus and online.

Testing for COVID-19 on players and staff from four SSE Airtricity League clubs will stop.

What is regarded as one of the key events of the War of Independence - a mutiny by police at the RIC baracks in Listowel in 1920 - was marked by local historians in the Co Kerry town on Friday morning.

All eyes are on the Green party this week as the three parties hoping to form a government consult internally on whether or not to go for it.

“This has to be looked at much more carefully over the next three weeks,”Dr Joe Barry said.

Most fertility treatments were put on ice during the lockdown. Now clinics have reopened, how will the delay affect women's chances of having a baby, asks Sharon Ní Chonchúir.

The Children’s Ombudsman has pledged to review procedures so his office can take complaints from children about racism.

The Noble False Widow spider – the most venomous spider in Ireland, is not so false after all because its venom is remarkably similar to the “true” Black Widow.

A new mental health strategy launched this week fails to address "gaping deficits” in staffing, as well as bed shortages and low levels of funding, the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) warns.

New guidance has been issued to ensure gin lovers are not misled by the advertising and marketing terms used to promote the drink.

The head of the HSE says that the organisation is "open to learnings" in relation to the transfer of older people from hospitals to nursing homes.