Three taoisigh, five budgets and a global pandemic: in unprecedented times it was a government like no other

Former taoiseach to publish his memoirs next year in a publishing deal reportedly involving a six-figure sum

Collection contains some 200 images taken by more than 70 press photographers across country in 2020 and 2021

State’s former chief medical officer also holds position of adjunct full professor of public health at UCD

Fine Gael leader at times clashed with Nphet’s public health advice and accepts government got some calls wrong

Breda Smyth’s time as country’s top doctor focused on State’s preparedness for new pandemic while she had just one of four deputies to help

Government indicates its intention to provide a factual account of pandemic and identify lessons learned from it

Coalition wants to appoint independent chair who did not have role in managing crisis

Ministers want the inquiry to focus on learning lessons rather than finger-pointing. The public will likely expect it to shy away from neither

Television review: Fascinating conversation with Joe Duffy confirms Tony Holohan to be an ordinary man caught up in extraordinary circumstances

Candid tale of a man caught in the eye of that Covid storm that gives valuable insights into one of the questions most people will want answers to: what makes Tony Holohan tick

The long-awaited Covid inquiry should shed light on how Holohan, Varadkar, Martin and others communicated and reached their decisions

The public servant who managed Ireland’s Covid crisis now occupies himself with a few part-time or honorary roles

Varadkar says he ‘went too far’ in criticism of Tony Holohan in 2020 with ‘personalised’ comments

State’s former chief medical officer sharply critical in memoir of leaks from report into the controversial proposed move

Maura Quinn tells Oireachtas finance committee she has ‘nothing further to add’ on the controversy

‘We would all have loved to find the silver bullet ... but the reality was far more complex,’ former CMO tells conference

Leo Varadkar claims the public doesn’t care about Robert Watt and his controversies, which is most convenient for the upper echelon of the Civil Service

Peadar Tóibín wrote to chairman that Minister be invited to give evidence on ‘glaring discrepancies’

Tensions over Tony Holohan's planned job at TCD were laid bare during a bad-tempered week in Leinster House