The Irish Times - 2021-02-23

• Lock­down to last un­til early April at least
• Cen­tral Bank rules kept house prices 9% lower
• Musk satel­lite to bring high-speed in­ter­net to Black Val­ley
• Whites on the Green Swans in the city
• In some as­pects Italy have been more in­ven­tive and am­bi­tious than Ire­land
• Com­mis­sion tapes: The Mother and Baby Homes Com­mis­sion be­lieves “very strongly” that tapes of hear­ings should be de­stroyed:
• UK re­open­ing: Boris John­son has out­lined a plan to re­open shops, hair­dressers, gyms and out­door hos­pi­tal­ity in Eng­land in mid-April:
• Rugby: Scot­land will have to wait un­til to­mor­row to learn if their Six Na­tions clash in Paris next Sun­day will go ahead.
• Soc­cer: Vera Pauw re­mains con­fi­dent that she can guide Ire­land to the 2023 World Cup after signing a new con­tract with the FAI.
• Weather
• Dan­ger­ous pris­oner: A man re­garded as one of the most dan­ger­ous pris­on­ers in the State may be freed:
• Covid-19 cases among hos­pi­tal staff dropped by two -thirds in a sin­gle week
• Lack of ho­tel quar­an­tines seen as erod­ing com­pli­ance
• Thou­sands of pupils re­turn to school
• One-third of peo­ple trav­el­ling over 10km from home
• Spread of vaccine doses urged after new study on level of pro­tec­tion
• Pandemic job­less pay­ments cost ¤6bn
• Chief med­i­cal of­fi­cer tells mourn­ers his wife was a warm and sunny per­son who lived for her fam­ily
• Ruc­tions in Govern­ment over lack of clear com­mu­ni­ca­tion on pandemic plan
• AI soft­ware for jus­tice sys­tem could learn to dis­crim­i­nate in il­le­gal ways, warns re­port
• Con­fused mes­sages par­tially due to loss of self-con­fi­dence
• What can we ex­pect in the Liv­ing with Covid plan ?
• Do­mes­tic vi­o­lence cri­sis dur­ing pandemic wors­en­ing, say NGOs
• Sun­shine caps de­light of vac­ci­nated is­landers
• Deeper co-op­er­a­tion needed in Bri­tish-Ir­ish re­la­tions, says Martin
• Garda loses challenge over Dis­clo­sures Tri­bunal rul­ing
• Bridge Notes
• Coun­cil to press ahead with cy­cle­way
• NI ex­porters go through Repub­lic to avoid ‘land bridge’
• Data sug­gests shift to elec­tric ve­hi­cles
• Passenger Cars By Emis­sions
• Pub­lic ser­vice pay deal to be rat­i­fied
• Ma­jor jus­tice re­forms plan to cut le­gal costs and reg­u­larise sta­tus of un­doc­u­mented mi­grants
• For­mer solic­i­tors jailed for bank fraud of­fences
• A rip­ple ef­fect of loss: US comes to terms with 500,000 Covid deaths
• Flags to fly at half mast to mark US death toll
• Italy’s am­bas­sador to DR Congo killed in at­tack on UN con­voy
• Iran nu­clear deal puts pres­sure on Bi­den
• Vol­un­teers clean Is­rael’s beaches after oils pill
• EU to sanc­tion Rus­sian of­fi­cials over Navalny jail­ing
• Ger­man schools re­open amid fears of surge
• PM’s cau­tion gives rest of Europe a chance to catch up
• Hitler fam­ily let­ters re­veal a more com­plex home life
• Re­open­ing roadmap Key dates
• Cata­lan po­lice crit­i­cised for han­dling of rap­per protests
• School clo­sures high­light our deeply frag­mented ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem
• I’m wor­ried CAO points will go through the roof this year. What are my op­tions?
• Boost­ing well­be­ing: ad­vice for teens and adults dur­ing Covid-19
• Teenage stu­dents in Covid iso­la­tion: ‘We’re all strug­gling’
• ‘We’re deal­ing with the Elvis of his sport’
• To have one can­celled show may be re­garded as a mis­for­tune, to have four looks like care­less­ness
• ‘Baf­fled’ doc­tors deal with strange Covid symp­toms
• Rare Disease Day: ‘They couldn’t fig­ure out what was wrong’
• Vicky Phelan in Amer­ica: ‘The sup­port I’ve re­ceived is just phe­nom­e­nal’
• Pilot project giv­ing brain in­jury sur­vivors a bet­ter life
• ‘He is mak­ing lit­tle bits of progress’
• Men­tal health ser­vices key to tack­ling wave of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence
• ‘The type of porn that my part­ner watches up­sets me’
• We got bad news at the first scan, the only one my hus­band could at­tend
• How will the pandemic af­fect chil­dren long term?
• My daugh­ter is ob­sessed with on­line boyfriend
• ‘I found it hard in team sports be­cause I wanted some­thing more in­di­vid­ual’
• Imag­i­na­tion is your se­cret weapon when run­ning gets too hard
• ‘All we want at the end of our shift is to get home safely to our fam­i­lies’
• Pres­by­te­rian Church’s di­vi­sive res­o­lu­tions
• Trim­ble and the NI pro­to­col
• Is­rael de­stroys aid from Ire­land
• Lock­down de­ci­sions – risks and ben­e­fits
• Longer open­ing hours and al­co­hol
• Iso­la­tion trends
• Stamps – the small print
• Fruit­ful walks
• Mixed mes­sages
• Spe­cial schools
• Leaks, plans and the Govern­ment
• Our daily bread
• Cards on the ta­ble
• De­nis Fahey
• Face­book’s flounce in Aus­tralia may give other na­tions some back­bone
• Num­ber of hous­ing units stalled by ju­di­cial re­views rises ten­fold
• Mi­crosoft al­lies with EU pub­lish­ers to make Big Tech pay for news
• Hous­ing de­liv­ery down 800 a week
• Con­sumers more up­beat – KBC sur­vey
• 42
• Credit unions gear up to be­gin lend­ing for so­cial hous­ing
• Coun­cil seeks de­tails from DAA on im­pact of night-time fly­ing
• IDA spent ¤25m in 18 years on four idle sites
• Disney opens new front in stream­ing war
• Wex­ford film stu­dio on hold as ob­jec­tion filed
• Stripe goes main­stream with Car­ney hire
• Keogh’s crisps to be stocked in­Waitrose
• ¤100m
• Travel and leisure stocks strengthen
• LVMH buys half of Jay-Z Cham­pagne pro­ducer
• Royal Caribbean book­ings rise due to vac­ci­na­tion op­ti­mism
• Covid ef­fect ap­pears less for fam­ily busi­nesses
• Ir­ish mag­nates’ pub group burn­ing through up to ¤40m a month in cash
• Dozens of Boe­ing 777 air­craft grounded after United Air­lines en­gine fail­ure
• EU to de­cide on sus­pen­sion of Sta­bil­ity Pact
• 55% 80%
• 30.1%
• 1995
• Challenge to ¤70m Kil­dare wind farm to be fast-tracked
• An Bord Pleanála con­sents to court or­der on Trin­ity Hall stu­dent ac­com­mo­da­tion
• An­a­lyt­ics com­pany CIM to cre­ate 85 jobs over three years
• In­no­va­tion part­ner­ship formed to trans­form wound care
• Fo­cus moves from tech stocks as rally broad­ens
• Stock­take Fund man­agers feel­ing very bullish
• Is a mar­ket cor­rec­tion loom­ing?
• Wood­ford’s new fund plans open to ques­tion
• Ulster Bank: What hap­pens next?
• Me and my Money
• Catt re­mains com­mit­ted to giv­ing Ir­ish at­tack sharper edge
• De­ci­sion on France v Scot­land game will be made to­mor­row
• Con­nacht look for oth­ers to take load off Aki
• Earls hopes to take flight against Italy again
• On this day: Feb 23rd, 1929
• Tak­ing a Trulla pos­i­tive out­look
• Ghi­ral­dini gives shout out to 2013
• Word of mouth
• Mullins jug­gles an­tic­i­pa­tion and sto­icism
• By the num­bers 4
• 10
• More rest days at 2023 tour­na­ment as part of wel­fare pack­age
• Ger­man stars boy­cott Qatar tour­na­ment over bikini ban
• Burgess to face more time in court on driv­ing charges
• 33
• For many par­ents, the schools’ cup of night­mares is not missed
• UAE Tour loses race leader after staff mem­ber tests pos­i­tive
• Mur­ray could not bring him­self to watch Aus­tralian Open
• Put­ter­isjust­not cut­ting it for McIl­roy
• Fans ex­pected to re­turn to sport in Eng­land in May
• Sorenstam plays down ex­pec­ta­tions
• Am­a­teurs to be al­lowed cash in on im­age
• On this day: Fe­bru­ary 23rd, 1975
• Twit­ter twad­dle
• Word of mouth
• Know the rules
• In the bag
• By the num­bers
• 31
• 10,000
• Tuchel strug­gling to make Chelsea jig­saw pieces fit
• Stun­ning late vol­ley by Ben­teke shat­ters hard-work­ing Brighton
• Dublin County blame Sport Ire­land Fa­cil­i­ties for failed bid
• ‘It’s a big test’ - Tuchel ex­pects bat­tle
• Pauw qui­etly con­fi­dent of suc­cess
• 12/28
• Sea­son of fast times sees largest Ire­land team se­lected for Euro­pean In­doors
• Lo­han sup­ports call for ad­di­tional train­ing time
• O’Neill calls for ex­ten­sion of train­ing pe­riod
• Cro­saire No 17,505
• Sim­plex No: 17,428
• Su­doku
• Bridge
• Chess No 14903
• YES­TER­DAY’S SO­LU­TIONS
• So­lu­tion to Cro­saire No 17,504
• So­lu­tion to Sim­plex No 17,427

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