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All secondary students should have been starting their Easter holidays this Friday. A time for a bit of freedom, with Leaving Cert students in particular using it as a time...

Fighting a pandemic is a bit like fighting a war. There are different fronts where battles need to be waged. For ordinary people, the battle plan is clear (I hope)...

Last week in lockdown, my household got some pets. Some stayed with us a lockdown length of time, which is short. In that case, they were born out of the...

The property market may be in what one commentator calls 'a short-lived Ice Age', but there is widespread confidence that as the threat of Covid-19 recedes, construction will pick up,...

Canada will not retaliate against the US despite the Trump administration's announcement it would prevent the export of N95 protective masks to its northern neighbour, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said...

The US is heading into what could be its “toughest” week as coronavirus cases swell nationwide, Donald Trump has said.

Fans of the Eurovision Song Contest have turned to the 2009 edition of the competition as a source of lockdown entertainment.

A man in Kent has built a bowling machine for his son using parts from his shed during the coronavirus lockdown.

Patricia Bosworth, an actress who once starred alongside Audrey Hepburn and later wrote biographies of stars including Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, has died aged 86 after contracting coronavirus.

VITAMIN D supplements may enhance resistance to respiratory infections such as Covid-19, or limit the severity of the illness for those that do become infected, according to new research from...

The Dublin GAA club Ballymun Kickhams has had to apologise to parents after an online coaching session for young children on the Zoom platform was hacked with inappropriate content shown...

The UAE's wealthiest emirate, Dubai, has announced a two-week-long lockdown, starting from 8pm (1600 GMT) on Saturday, in order to carry out large scale disinfection and stem the spread of...

Another 17 patients have died because of Covid-19, according to the latest figures.

A man wielding a knife attacked residents of a French town while they ventured out to shop amid a coronavirus lockdown, killing two people and wounding eight others, authorities have...

Animal shelters across the US said they have placed record numbers of dogs, cats and other animals as people suddenly find themselves stuck at home amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Minister for Health Simon Harris, has announced further measures to support nursing homes residents in the context of the overarching response to Covid-19.

Health Minister Simon Harris has announced a €72m financial bailout for private nursing homes struggling to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

An Irish performance supplement company is supplying free products to all frontline staff in the HSE.

Keir Starmer was elected as the leader of Britain's main opposition Labour Party on Saturday, pledging to bring an end to years of bitter infighting and to work with the...

More than 50,000 people across Scotland have signed up to offer help during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Keep informed of these unprecedented times with the latest coronavirus updates on Independent.ie's live blog.

Keep informed of these unprecedented times with the latest coronavirus updates on Independent.ie's live blog.

Cheltenham Festival organisers have defended their decision to go ahead last month after fears were raised the mass gathering helped spread coronavirus more widely around the country.

Scarce supplies of medical equipment are leading to growing competition among nations, in what one French politician called a “worldwide treasure hunt”.

Keep informed of these unprecedented times with the latest coronavirus updates on Independent.ie's live blog.

The Kennedy dynasty has been touched repeatedly by tragedy, most recently with the daughter and a grandson of Robert F Kennedy's eldest daughter going missing on a canoe trip.

China has held a three-minute silence to honour those who have died in the coronavirus outbreak.

The Covid-19 outbreak has cost Ryanair around €100m a week to date and that figure is set to rise if the crisis continues into the summer, according to analysis from...

Current estimates of the cost to the State of staunching the economic damage being caused by the coronavirus pandemic run as high as €25bn while, across the eurozone, €2trn in...

Many health workers are unable to report for duty because the problem of getting childcare has reached "boiling point", it has been claimed.

During the darkest of times, it was a photograph that became a beacon of hope.

Nursing homes that are at risk of being overwhelmed by the coronavirus crisis are to be targeted by a squad of infection-control experts in a bid to prevent the illness...

The Government is set to extend many if not all of the current restrictions on public movement due to the Covid-19 pandemic beyond April 12 - but could tweak some...

Brazil's hard-right president has been warned by infectious disease specialists that his strategy for tackling the coronavirus will lead to the "total collapse" of the country's health system.

Q: Wednesday will mark a milestone when Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in January, will have its lockdown eased. What can we draw from...

Even by usual standards, the latest raft of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle headlines are particularly spiked with sneer. "Meghan has got everything she wanted now," they chorus, intimating that...

It reads like a plot from the Netflix drama 'Narcos' - if a little more far-fetched. Desperate to bankroll his flagging regime, a Latin American ruler and his generals form...

Seventeen-and-a-half million coronavirus antibody tests promised by British ministers are unlikely to be ready until June, potentially extending the lockdown in the UK by weeks, it has emerged.

BOOKSELLERS across the nation are scrambling to move their businesses online in a bid to curtail the negative impact the Covid-19 crisis is having on the trade.