A surge in cases is adding to pressures on hospitals and front-line staff with some health trusts encouraging mask wearing.

Families of two women who died in hospital have questioned the use of "do-not-resuscitate orders".

About 90 workers at a Guinness canning factory in Belfast have walked out in protest over pay.

Irish police are searching houses in counties Kildare and Offaly after two people died in an arson attack last week.

The remains of Daniel Aruebose, who is believed to have gone missing when he was about three, were found on County Dublin.