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The Government of Ireland temporarily suspends the use of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine following reports from the Norwegian Medicines Agency regarding serious blood clots developing in four people who received the vaccine, one of whom later died.
2021-03-14

Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces the phased reopening of schools beginning on March 1 with junior and senior infants as well as senior students facing Leaving Certificate exams. Meanwhile, the government extends the level 5 lockdown restrictions until April 5.
2021-02-23

The government also agrees to tighten the lockdown measures including keeping schools closed but allowing Leaving Cert students to attend three days per week and also suspending non-essential construction projects. These measures will remain in place until the end of January.
2021-01-6

Leo Varadkar becomes the first gay Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
2017-06-14

The Irish Government will establish a Cabinet committee to examine proposals for an independent police authority and other justice reforms, which will be chaired by the Taoiseach.
2014-04-1

Taoiseach Enda Kenny tells the Dáil the Prison Service recorded conversations between inmates and their solicitors.
2014-04-1

As Callinan goes, details emerge that the national police have been involved in phone tapping since the 1980s: the Irish Government establishes an inquiry into the matter.
2014-03-25

In his Christmas Day message, Seán Brady, the controversial head of Ireland's Catholic hierarchy, calls upon his flock to continue their opposition to abortion. In the wake of the death of Savita Halappanavar, the Indian dentist recently denied an abortion of her dying foetus by Ireland's conservative laws, the country's government is once again to attempt to legislate for the 1992 X Case in the coming year, with Ireland the only remaining EU state to outlaw the procedure.
2012-12-25

Voters in Ireland go to the polls for a referendum on whether the Irish government can approve the European Fiscal Compact.
2012-05-31

Tens of thousands of people march through Dublin in protest at the Irish government's austerity measures.
2010-11-27