SCHOOLS are reporting early success as teachers and pupils get to grips with distance learning.

RESTRICTIONS imposed on people during this lockdown period are part of efforts by both the Irish and British governments to `flatten the curve' of coronavirus infections.

STORY + HEADER + STANDFIRST + PULLQUOTE + SECOND STORY AT BOTTOM OF THIS FILE (ALSO IN SEPARATE PACKAGE) ==== WHEN it comes to home-schooling, the school bit is the easy part.

NOT being at school has been pretty good so far because the second you finish your work you can do whatever you want (within reason).

LAST week, I took the decision to suspend public funeral ceremonies in the churches of the Diocese of Down and Connor and to advise strongly that wakes be confined to members of the immediate family.

THE PSNI is asking people to withdraw Freedom of Information requests due to resource pressures as a result of the coronavirus crisis.

A HIGH-profile Belfast solicitor who remains critically ill in hospital with coronavirus has received widespread messages of support.