Members of the public who refuse to wear a face mask on public transport from Monday face fines of €2,500 or six months in prison when the measure becomes mandatory.
Publicans fear the Government's delay in publishing guidelines on reopening may be an indication they will not be allowed to open their doors on July 20.
Celebrity marriages can often be messy affairs, and none more so than that of Johnny Depp and his former wife Amber Heard.
The coronavirus death toll in the US has started to climb again as the recent surge in cases in the sunbelt states feeds through into fatalities.
The US Supreme Court has recognised about half of Oklahoma as Native American reservation land and overturned a tribe member's rape conviction because the location where the crime was committed should have been considered outside the reach of state criminal law.
The meat factories' representative body has been accused of "stonewalling" questions on the Covid-19 outbreaks in meat plants around the country.
A rise in Covid-19 cases has shaken us out of our comfort zone and revealed a series of potential weaknesses in our defences against the spread of the virus.
