The current Covid-19 situation in Ireland sees a considerable strain on acute hospitals, with the President of the Irish Hospital Consultants' Association saying that there is a "national emergency".
As well as that, figures from the Our World in Data shows that Ireland has the highest daily number of new confirmed coronavirus cases in the world for every one million people.
Today, the Department of Health was notified of eight further coronaivrus-related deaths and 4,929 cases. Here are five things we learned from this evening's briefing: High rate of 14-day incidence of Covid-19 The Chair of NPHET’s Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group said that one in 76 of Ireland’s entire population has been notified as Covid-positive in