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1. # FINAL HOURS: Post-Brexit trade talks have entered their final day, with the UK and European Union continuing the latest efforts to find a breakthrough on a deal before the weekend’s deadline.

2. # HOUSING: The total value of all Irish residential properties now stands at € 536 billion, increasing by € 18 billion in 2019.

3. #RELEASED: A second man arrested in connection with the murder of teenager Keane Mulready Woods has been released without charge.

4. # SUMMER: The HSE expects vulnerable individuals and frontline healthcare workers to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in early summer, the Sunday Times reported this morning.

5. # VACCINATION: Officials in the US say that the Pfizer / BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine will begin arriving across the country tomorrow morning.

6. #US: Four people were stabbed and shot as protests supporting President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of election fraud led to clashes in major US cities yesterday.

7. # HOSPITALIZATION: There are 190 patients with confirmed Covid-19 cases being treated in the hospital and 31 in the ICU, the lowest figures since October 10.

8. # EXPLANATOR: Everything you need to know about what a vaccine is and why they are so important.

9. #BERTIE AHERN: The deadline for the end of the Brexit transition period should have been extended due to the global pandemic, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said.

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