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Coronavirus: University of Limerick likely to set up field hospital on campus

UL president expects it will be at least mid-June before college reopens to students

Sally Rooney’s novel among Barack Obama’s favourite reads of 2019

Former US president also lists story about the Troubles among 19 top picks

Efforts continue to try to keep Iran nuclear deal alive

German diplomat warns of dangers of conflict as he prepares to meet Iranian president

Combination therapy can extend life for those with ovarian cancer

Mater hospital has provided treatment 200 times since 2013

Web Summit’s tone changes as tech industry comes under scrutiny

There was a sense of realisation that perhaps the good guys aren’t really good guys after all

Facebook is modern-day East India Company, whistleblower says

Tech companies colonising society, according to Christopher Wylie

Typhoid alert as 70 people may have been exposed to disease in hospital

Hospital group says risk of ‘further contagion’ low and all protocols had been followed

Prof Shane Higgins appointed new master of National Maternity Hospital

Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist will take up post next January

Taoiseach defends relationship with chair of firm that HSE chief has joined

Varadkar backs Minister’s consent granted to O’Brien to take up board role at US firm

China’s military stages drills over Lunar New Year holiday

Focus of Beijing’s fighter-jet manoeuvres on ‘confronting threat from India’

Variations in patient experiences reported regionally

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) Group fared the worst in survey

New system to ease staffing crisis in the healthcare sector

CliniShift the ‘Uber of healthcare’, can reduce reliance on agency workers

Israel’s peace movement: ‘Only soldiers see the occupation’

Ex-staff sergeant: ‘There is violence on both sides, but Palestinians always pay the price’

Cairo court acquits Egyptian-American of human-trafficking

Verdict comes two weeks after Egyptian president met Donald Trump in Washington

Kilkenny hospital Caesarean rate of 60% ‘outrageous’

High number of operations for first-time mothers described as ‘outrageous’ by Aims

Taboo TV review: the grime and gloss of an imperial wrecking ball

Tom Hardy, a genetic stalemate between beauty and brutishness, is picking a fight with the British empire in the BBC’s new antihero vehicle

Weaving the fabric of life, history and culture

Textiles are frequently ignored, simply because they are so fundamental. But this is changing

Hospitals spent €730,000 last year on public relations

Expenditure is additional to in-house PR staff and those employed in HSE press division

Israeli forces shoot dead two Palestinian boys in Gaza

Violence shows no sign of subsiding as five Palestinians killed in separate incidents

Sweden's second city, Gothenburg, is Nordic nirvana

From its ancient waterways to it modern mega-malls, Sweden’s second city is great

The daily grind: a day as a Bewley’s barista

Even the finest coffee can be turned into a vile and bitter soup by an inexperienced barista, I’m told, as I set to work in Bewley’s on Grafton Street. This should be fun

Al Jazeera journalists on trial in Egypt

Three journalists on trial today on charges of aiding members of a ‘terrorist organisation’

Indian holy man’s dream leads to €37bn treasure hunt

Digging begins under 16th century temple after local man dreams about 1,000 tons of buried gold and silver

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