Primary school pupils will only be able to return to school part-time in autumn if current social distancing and other public health restrictions are in place, teachers and school managers warn.
It may be a tentative step on the roadmap towards 'normal life', but for many, May 18 means one thing and one thing only - the craic.
As an angler (and there are no doubt many other categories of person in similar boats), I should like to protest against the arbitrary distance restriction currently imposed on me and many others by the powers that be: a radius of 5km from one's home (at least until June 8).
Groups of four people living within a 5km radius of each other will be permitted to meet up outside once a day from Monday.
A probe is under way into why a hospital failed to report well over 200 positive cases of the coronavirus diagnosed since mid-March until yesterday - causing a big jump in newly diagnosed figures just days before Monday's easing of lockdown.
RESTRICTIONS on air travel should be lifted or eased "as soon as possible" across Europe, according to the chief executive of the Irish Aviation Authority, Peter Kearney.
It could take nearly two years to clear a backlog of postponed surgeries, including operations on cancer patients, which has built up in Irish hospitals due to the coronavirus crisis, according to a major study published today.
