The main stories making the headlines across Cork:
Non-essential retail is opening for the final day for at least a month, as the country has entered its third lockdown.
Household visits were banned at midnight after the third record daily number of Covid-19 infections since Christmas.
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Under the new regime, schools Christmas holidays have been extended from January 6th to the 11th.
The change does not affect creches and childcare facilities.
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There's an appeal for information to a garda shooting in Dublin yesterday, which resulted in the death of a man.
George Nkencho was shot in a Hartstown housing estate after members of the force responded to reports of a man with a knife in a local shopping centre.
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The UK's post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union has been signed into law, with just hours to go before the transition period ends.
