PeopleAoife Noonan’s Christmas: ‘The day usually starts with Ferrero Rocher and a fry-up’By Arlene Harris
Life & StyleIan Dempsey’s Christmas: ‘This year material displays will be less important. Hallelujah to that’By Arlene Harris
EducationThe Secret Teacher: We’re pushing our super learners into a squeezed middleBy The Secret Teacher
OpinionFintan O’Toole: Assange persecution is to scare off more inquiries into US secretsBy Fintan O'Toole
PoliticsNo change in control of multi-billion euro broadband contractor, Government toldBy Pat Leahy and Eoin Burke-Kennedy
MusicChristmas and New Year gigs: Which ones are cancelled, postponed and still on?By Tony Clayton-Lea
TransportIrish and EU citizens stopped from entering State without Covid tests may have legal caseBy Barry O'Halloran
PeopleI never told my UCD classmates I lived in direct provision ... They wouldn’t understandBy Sorcha Pollak
Film‘I would sit on my ass and eat cookies’: Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry’s end-of-the-world plansBy Catherine Shoard
RugbyJohnny Watterson: IRFU's standing tarnished as players take the nuclear optionBy Johnny Watterson
Your FamilyBilly Holland: My best Christmas was when we got our daughter out of hospital for the first timeBy Jen Hogan
HealthPaddy Murray: Fear now tinged with paranoia as people play it safe over ChristmasBy Paddy Murray
SoccerManchester United’s game at Brentford postponed due to Covid outbreakBy Paul MacInnes and David Hytner
BusinessAir travel and Covid tests, tobacco price rises, and tax implications of a raffle winBy Ciarán Hancock
PoliticsHSE to redeploy staff to accelerate Covid booster rolloutBy Pat Leahy, Jennifer Bray and Paul Cullen
FoodIrish chef sues Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck restaurant for €235,000 over RSI claimsBy Caroline Davies
PeopleRevealed: Are brain surgeons and rocket scientists really brighter than the rest of us?By Nicola Davis
EuropeOmicron surge in Denmark and UK sends warning to Ireland and rest of EuropeBy Richard Milne, John Burn-Murdoch and Sarah Neville
Financial ServicesCredit union savings slow as households loosen purse strings, report findsBy Joe Brennan
HealthLuke O’Neill says booster helped to ensure he only got ‘mild’ CovidBy Aine Kenny and Vivienne Clarke
EnvironmentLegal challenge threatened over State’s failure to produce long-term climate strategyBy Kevin O'Sullivan
EducationNo plans to close schools early before Christmas, says Department of EducationBy Carl O'Brien
CourtsFamily of teen killed in road crash challenges referral of driver to youth programmeBy Aodhan O'Faolain
IrelandParty leaders meet Nphet as Holohan says Omicron now accounts for 14% of casesBy Jennifer Bray, Jade Wilson and Vivienne Clarke
Crime & LawSpitting assaults on gardaí increase as Policing Authority opposes ‘spit hoods’By Conor Lally
BusinessReduction in illicit cigarrette trade due to Covid boosts revenues at PJ CarrollBy Gordon Deegan
An Irish DiaryLong day’s journey into Leitrim – Frank McNally on revisiting the scene of a 1983 tragedyBy Frank McNally
PoliticsTaoiseach does not rule out more Covid restrictions but says we must ‘hold our nerve’By Cormac McQuinn and Sarah Burns