The entire country has been placed onto level two restrictions under a new government plan.
It means the current restrictions will be in place for another three weeks.
However, further measures are being introduced in Dublin.
The number of organisations whose staff are permitted by law to hear protected disclosures from whistleblowers has been increased by 10.
Minister for Public Expenditures and Reform Michael McGrath signed the order into law today.
A witness has told a murder trial he is telling the truth, in his evidence, about the night a homeless man with cerebral palsy was stabbed to death in Dublin.
A family has been forced to leave their home after a mother was beaten with a baseball bat in Co Louth.
A garda investigation has been launched into the assault.
Josh Crosbie reports:
Cities may be placed on higher restrictions than the rest of the county they're in under new plans.
NPHET is examining whether you could move Cork, Waterford, Limerick and Galway cities up a level on the COVID restriction list without doing the same for the entire county.
Colleges and universities across the country have been told to strictly limit the number of people on campus as part of new restrictions on third level.
NPHET has recommended every course that can be done online should be for the next three weeks.
About one in five hundred people had coronavirus in England in the week to last Saturday.
The Office for National Statistics estimates the figure is one in three hundred in Wales.
The French prime minister's confirmed two people who were stabbed in Paris this morning were journalists.
Police have arrested two suspects following the incident near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine.
The chief medical officers in the Republic and Northern Ireland have appealed for people to avoid all but necessary cross-border travel.
In particular, the two health chiefs said they were concerned about the number of cases amongst young people.
Cannabis worth 40-thousand euro, and 12-thousand euro in cash have been seized in Cork.
Gardai searched a car in the Fairhill area of the city last night and found the cash, and cannabis worth 5-thousand euro.
A man in his 30s was arrested at the scene.
People will have as much as five years to pay off any income tax due this year if they've been on COVID wage supports.
Revenue has outlined the details of how people will be expected to pay back any money owed.
Our Political Correspondent Seán Defoe reports:
The ESRI says people are still adhering to Covid-19 guidelines despite the increase in cases.
In a letter to government, the acting Chief Medical Officer says that there needs to be a 'wholehearted widespread collective buy in' if the restrictions are to be effective.
A man has been arrested in relation to a shooting in Co Meath in May.
A man in his 20s was injured when he was shot on the Main Street in Clonee on the 25th of May.
This morning gardai arrested a man in his 30s in relation to the incident.
Thousands of people could face an income tax bill from January 2021.
However they will have up to five years to pay it off in increments.
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