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The emergency department at the Mater Hospital is reopening after a seven-month closure due to the covid-19 pandemic.
Patients with non-Covid needs can attend - but are subject to screening procedures.
A man has been charged in relation to a drugs seizure worth 85 thousand euro in Kerry.
Methedrone was found after the search of a building on Mary Street in Tralee at around 8pm last night.
Two containers were found hidden in a wardrobe with the drugs inside.
Contingency plans are in place in case next month's Leaving Cert exams are cancelled due to Covid-19.
Should the exams be called off, students would sit the written exams in June 2021 with this year's Leaving Cert students.
Ballyjamesduff in Cavan remains the local electoral area with the highest incidence rate of Covid-19.
Two areas in the country now have a rate of more than 1,000.
Ben Finnegan reports:
A decision on funding for colleges and universities will be made in 2021, according to the Higher Education Minister.
Simon Harris says 'political cowardice' has hurt the third level systems.
Some schools are closed today, and others are telling parents they can refrain from sending their children in, after a brand of hand sanitiser has been recalled.
Virapro hand sanitiser has been found to cause respiratory and eye irritation, as well as headaches and dermatitis.
TDs voted last night to approve a controversial bill that sends a database created by the Mother and Baby Homes Commission to Tusla.
It's been sharply criticised for failing to open up records to survivors -- and the speed at which it was brought through the Oireachtas.
A post mortem will be carried out today on the body of a woman found dead in Dublin.
Her death and the discovery of the body of a baby boy in Lucan are being treated as a family tragedy.
Cliona O'Dwyer reports:
The Chief Medical Officer says he's not concerned about the breakdown in the contact tracing system.
The HSE asked 2,500 thousand people who tested positive to do their own contact tracing after the system became overwhelmed.
Business owners are being warned even if Brexit talks end in a deal, there will still be major disruption ten weeks from today.
The EU's Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier and his counterpart Britain's David Frost resumed talks yesterday.
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