COVID-19 was detected in 67 of 68 treatment plants tested

Walk-in appointments at test centres are suspended

The decision to suspend the walk-in clinics was taken as a result of high demand for testing in the last two days

Many other restrictions also ease today, with live music allowed indoors at weddings and in bars.

There's been 187 cases in Boyle's LEA and its incidence rate is 856

The hospital has seen high levels of covid positive patients, along with high trolley numbers at the facility's ED.

From next Monday churches will be allowed to admit 50 per cent of their capacity for mass.

Artists welcome the return of gigs, but some say "it's too little, too late"