OpinionFintan O’Toole: Way pandemic has unfolded makes mockery of punishment and rewardBy Fintan O'Toole
IrelandHome now a no-go for Irish in Australia: 'Knowing you can’t is really hard'By Kate Nic Dhomhnaill
Health‘Nothing is working as it should’: New Covid strain stalls Irish truckers in BritainBy Simon Carswell
PoliticsCabinet set to announce new Covid restrictions amid third waveBy Pat Leahy, Jack Horgan-Jones and Paul Cullen
HealthProlonged French travel ban could disrupt Irish meat productionBy Simon Carswell, Naomi O’Leary and Denis Staunton
PoliticsBrexit: Irish farming and fisheries to get hundreds of millions in supportBy Jack Horgan-Jones
FilmPhil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away review – The word ‘heroin’ is never mentionedBy Donald Clarke
BooksThe best crime fiction of 2020: Liz Moore, Jane Casey, Scott Turow and moreBy Declan Burke and Declan Hughes
Gaelic GamesKevin McStay: Mayo may regret not going for broke when they had the chanceBy Kevin McStay
RugbyStuart Lancaster sees positives as senior internationals line up Christmas breakBy Gavin Cummiskey
Crime & LawMan (30s) and teenager arrested in connection with cash-in-transit robberyBy Ellen O'Riordan
Crime & LawBusinesses want ‘visible’ Garda enforcement against Covid rulebreakers – reportBy Sorcha Pollak and Mark Hilliard
BooksPaying it forward and back – the kinship of poets and their mentorsBy Mícheál McCann, Summer Meline and Marcella LA Prince and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe
TV & RadioThe Zoom transgression that sank one of the United States’ best-known journalistsBy Katherine Rosman and Jacob Bernstein
IrelandCovid-19 cases on the rise due to behaviour change, GPs sayBy Vivienne Clarke and Ellen O'Riordan
PoliticsGovernment ‘nobbling’ major review of Defence Forces by excluding departmentBy Marie O'Halloran
IrelandLong delays on State helpline as Irish people stranded in UK try to get homeBy Ellen O'Riordan
Middle EastSaudi Arabia asks Trump to declare Bin Salman immune from federal lawsuitBy Michael Jansen
Commercial PropertyJohnny Ronan and Oaktree sign Irish Glass Bottle site deal for €200mBy Joe Brennan
PoliticsCovid-19: Taoiseach confirms return to tighter restrictions as case numbers riseBy Pat Leahy and Vivienne Clarke
BusinessApplegreen duo say private ownership best for massive spend plansBy Joe Brennan and Ciara O'Brien
MarketsEuropean shares rebound as progress on Brexit trade deal overshadows virus worriesBy Eoin Burke-Kennedy
An Irish DiaryEndgame – Frank McNally on Dublin’s GAA dominance and other portents of the ApocalypseBy Frank McNally
IrelandMixed reaction among retailers at Covid-19 lockdown reprieveBy Conor Pope and Marie O'Halloran
IrelandMinister praises Garda efforts to combat organised crime in north east inner cityBy Marie O'Halloran
Social AffairsPUP will be paid to workers laid off in coming daysBy Olivia Kelly and Marie O'Halloran
Transport‘Please let this be the last lockdown’: Publicans urge end to rolling restrictionsBy Mark Paul
UKBrexit: Hopes fade for deal before Christmas but delay fraught with risk for JohnsonBy Denis Staunton
HealthCovid-19 vaccination rollout: timeline, priority listing and vaccine availabilityBy Kevin O'Sullivan
AbroadChristmas in Australia: ‘I am finally free of the psychological shackles of Ireland’By Philip Lynch
EconomyTaoiseach says vaccine programme could be ‘substantially complete’ by autumn 2021By Ciarán Hancock
Ireland‘I buried my son on December 21st’: Flights bring 350 Irish residents home from UKBy Jade Wilson
USBiden team voices concern over forced labour issues in EU-China dealBy Demetri Sevastopulo, Jim Brunsden, Sam Fleming and Michael Peel