Parents will be paid up to €25.50 a week to drive teenage children to and from school if they can't get a socially distanced seat on the school bus.
Kildare's local lockdown has been extended by two weeks while tight restrictions have been lifted in Offaly and Laois, the Cabinet announced amid calls for more support for impacted businesses.
Politicians attending the Clifden golf dinner complained about the dividing partition - that they couldn't see the speakers or properly hear what was being said, the Irish Independent can reveal.
At least 41 schools in Berlin have reported that students or teachers are infected with coronavirus - less than two weeks after they reopened in the German capital.
EU Commissioner Phil Hogan was based in Kildare after returning to Ireland from his EU base - but left the county for a medical appointment and didn't return.
Gardaí will interview the organisers of this week's Oireachtas Golf Society dinner, which took place at a Galway hotel, as part of their investigation into alleged breaches of Covid-19 regulations.
Public health doctors are increasingly trying to hunt down Covid-19 in hidden places across the country.
