Govt provides special Covid payments; Retail Excellence calls for shops to close; Businesses find creative ways to keep trading; What is cocooning?; Schools close in Northern Ireland; Life and death in Bergamo; Healthcare workers sign up in their tens of thousands

Aengus Cox visited a Dublin 8 street where residents are gathering for keep fit sessions, all the while respecting the rules of social distancing

Govt seeks 10,000 beds (00:08); Pay for workers during outbreak (5:23); Kids talk about Covid-19 (9:52); Daffodil Day cancelled (15:05); TikTok on consent (20:09); Syrian refugee tells her story (23:56); the search for a vaccine (30:24); Woman killed in hit and run (39:21); Covid-19 travel disruption (42:09); Rise in rental scams (53:23)

Gearoid Gilley, Head of Customer Services at VHI Healthcare, and Consumer Correspondents Fran McNulty and Siobhan Maguire, share solutions to the travel headaches associated with Covid-19

A selection of stories from the week: People self isolate after CUH Covid-19 case (00:08), Clare residents forced out of homes by flooding (11:03), closing time for Tipperary pub (17:09), addiction stigma (21:11), Cork school helps homeless (27:26), calls for large-scale social housing developments (32:01), public's anxiety over coronavirus (37:12)

Our listeners sent us questions and we put them to our expert panel: Sam McConkey, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Sarah Doyle is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the HSE, and Ray Walley, is a GP and former president of the IMO.

A selection of stories from the week, as chosen by the Morning Ireland team.

First day of 33rd Dáil; Caroline Flack suicide prompts examination of social media; "Ghost ship" swept ashore in West Cork; Passengers start disembarking Japan coronavirus ship; Little Museum of Dublin celebrates the Diceman; New post-Brexit immigration rules; 10 year old Donegal boy writes to Jurgen Klopp

Where to for Govt formation? (00:08); Council blocks Galway2020 funding (08:20); British EU officials re-badge as Irish (12:28); Facebook delays dating service (18:17); HIQA on maternity services (24:05); Alliance on sacking of Julian Smith (31:05); Victim of homophobic attack (35:49); Funeral of Mulready Woods (42:14); Valentine's Day (44:42)

This week: China's ambassador to Ireland on the coronavirus (00:08), strike action by secondary school teachers (7:47), Galway's drug blizzard (15:44), the impeachment trial of Donald Trump (19:31), the BAFTAs (26:26); scientists meet the traditional Irish harp (30:43)