Countries popular with Irish holidaymakers - including France, Italy, Spain and Portugal - would not qualify at this stage for inclusion in the "green list" for a summer getaway because of their higher levels of Covid-19.
There will be no exemption for churches from the 50-person limit on indoor gatherings when they reopen on Monday, the Irish Independent has learned.
The days of impulse dining out and drinking at the bar are all but over. From Monday, going to the pub or a restaurant is set to be a very different experience from the heady pre-Covid-19 era.
Beauty salons are ready to reopen - although the 'riskier' treatments will have to wait a while.
The northern-most town in the Arctic, Verkhoyansk, is one of the coldest inhabited places on Earth and regularly records some of the world's lowest temperatures.
The two-week wait to announce safe 'air bridges' to and from Ireland is a bridge too far, according to Aer Lingus.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to overturn President Obama's Affordable Care Act, telling the court that "the entire ACA must fall".
