Ryanair will axe up to 1,000 flights between Ireland and the UK in August and September in response to what it claimed are "defective quarantine restrictions" here.
Fresh doubt hangs over next week's reopening of 3,750 pubs amid heightened fears over a rise in Covid-19 infections.
Hospitals have received new guidelines on the precautions needed to ensure that people admitted for other illnesses do not catch Covid-19.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has been forced to defend Government proposals to extend parents' leave by three weeks amid criticism that they don't go far enough to support new mothers affected by the Covid-19 crisis.
Lockdown loneliness has robbed many of Ireland's older generation of their pre-Covid-19 resilience.
The GAA - facing lost revenues of up to €60m this year due to Covid-19 - has provided its Croke Park facilities and other grounds across the country to the HSE for Covid testing at no cost.
Court applications relating to domestic violence slumped by 23pc after the Covid-19 lockdown, figures obtained by the Irish Independent reveal.
