DCU lecturer Eoin O’Malley said

GOING into lockdown in Madrid as this Coronavirus crisis accelerated incredibly has been surreal — and the feeling from here is that Ireland will soon follow a similar path.

The Department of Foreign Affairs is advising people to exercise "high degree of caution" in going to any EU member state.

Italy is reporting 250 new deaths related to the Covid-19 coronavirus.

New measures are likely to be introduced at Irish airports to monitor people entering Ireland from Europe and other parts of the world to try to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

The Government has advised against “non essential” travel to parts of Spain.

Picture the scene; Six Nations 2030, a packed stadium of 50,000 cheering fans, a large green pocket of Irish travelling fans surrounded by maroon shirts. Hold on, Maroon? It’s not that the Welsh shirts had a France shirt mixed up in the wash, it’s Georgia.

Look, they’re going to make this 10 times harder than it needed to be, writes Steven Kelly.

Here is a selection of people who have begun new roles with companies in Ireland, including Horse Sport Ireland, Veterinary Council of Ireland, Sims IVF Group, Smith & Williamson Ireland and Deloitte.

Ireland v Italy Six Nations match in doubt amid global outbreak

People should be “pragmatic” about their holiday bookings because of coronavirus, the Irish Travel Agents Association has urged.

Will the bargain have been worth it when Faust calls in the loan?, asks Enda McEvoy.

Des O’Sullivan previews London’s major February auctions.

Ciara Mageean made the flying start to 2020 by setting an Irish indoor 1500m record in Boston on Saturday night.

Harrington's return is a significant boost for Irish boxing ahead of the European qualifiers for Tokyo 2020 next March.

Down with the bunting, box up the tinsel. The league is over and we can all relax in the afterglow of our trophy gluttony. No late-campaign jitters, sleepless nights worrying about goal difference and whether our little star will shine brightest. It’s over and everyone knows it is.

What links these places: Bonn, Buenos Aires, Marrakech, New Delhi, Kyoto, Montreal, Bali, Doha, Cancún, Paris, Katowice and Madrid?

The scale of the geo-political problems facing the EU cannot be under-estimated, as has been made clear by Ms von der Leyen.

Mary Robinson spoke of the movement to divest from fossil fuels and how the wealthy fossil fuel industry had learnt ‘a lot of bad tricks’, writes Alison O'Connor.

The council was invited by Minister for Communication, Climate Action and Environment Richard Bruton to advise for preparation of multi-annual carbon budgets, and for drafting legislation.

The clash between Real Madrid’s new midfield hope, and Barcelona’s returning central figure, could go a long way to deciding tonight’s La Liga Clasico.

That the Madrid climate talks ended with an inconclusive agreement and a decision to ask countries to be more ambitious in cutting greenhouse gas emissions to realise the 2015 Paris accord shows we have, to use David Axelrod’s all-too-apt phrase, passed the swimsuit stage of international negotiations on climate change.

Her character in Dallas may have shot JR Ewing, but Mary Crosby will always be known as the daughter of the man who sang ‘White Christmas’, writes Ed Power.

UN secretary general António Guterres’s stark warning about climate change was ignored by the media in favour of the US president’s mocking of the Swedish activist. Our priorities are all wrong.

Non-federal US actors — from state governments to private businesses — have laid a strong foundation for effective climate action, says Jules Kortenhorst and Andrew Steer

Greta Thunberg has been named Time's Person of the Year.

This evening, as some delegates at the Madrid climate conference stroll along Puerta del Sol, someone somewhere will be crouched over a keyboard assuring the world that climate collapse is a swizz.

The European Union has said it is likely to miss its target for reducing greenhouse gases by 2030, dealing a blow to the bloc’s efforts to be a leader in the fight against climate change.