Sunshine News from Wednesday, January 13th, 2021

The Taoiseach has said Ireland embraced a "perverse religious morality" by turning a blind eye to Mother and Baby Homes.

The Health Minister says 1.4 million doses will be available over the next 11 weeks, meaning all frontline healthcare workers, over 70s and people in long-term residential settings will be vaccinated.

Irish Water says the cold weather has led to a surge in demand in recent days.

Fine Gael has declined to comment on why it chose to re-admit three senators, stripped of the party whip over their attendance at the Oireachtas Golf Society event in Clifden last August, on the day of the publication of the landmark Mother and Baby Homes report.

The Taoiseach will make a formal state apology to Mother and Baby Home survivors in the Dáil today.

A 24 year old recovering drug addict from Wicklow who pleaded guilty to spitting blood and saliva into the faces of gardaí and a paramedic three years ago before telling them he had AIDs, was given a suspended prison sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.

The company behind plans to build a wind farm in West Wicklow is due to submit a planning application and environmental impact assessment report to the County Council later this week.

The Chief Medical Officer is warning the high number of daily deaths linked to Covid-19 is likely to continue.

Plans to vaccinate the majority of people by the end of the summer is highly unlikely, according to an immunologist.

The government's new testing requirement for all international arrivals won't prevent more Covid-19 cases being imported, according to Sinn Fein.

Ireland's set to receive over 1 billion euro from the European Union this year to help it deal with Brexit.