Single workers bear the brunt in Ireland’s personal tax system Single workers with no children are bearing the brunt of Ireland’s personal tax regime, a new OECD study shows.

OECD study finds low income single workers without children bear biggest tax burden

Decision time: whether or not the Taoiseach calls an election in a month’s time could define his entire political career. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Stephen Collins Varadkar should call election after the abortion referendum
Save the 8th campaign calls on Dr Peter Boylan to resign Niamh Ni Bhriain and Mairead Hughes during a Save the 8th press conference in Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Anti-abortion group launches online petition calling on chairman to step down from role

Doctors not compelled to tell women of cancer test errors Vicky and Jim Phelan from Annacotty, Co Limerick, speaking to the media after securing a €2.5m settlement at the High Court. Photograph: Collins Courts

Up to 15 patients found to have been misdiagnosed in a 2014 audit of smear tests

Court of Appeal rules use of death cert to sell house was fraud The High Court had previously ruled there was no evidence of fraud by the siblings.

Siblings sold late father’s home using documents for woman with same name as `dead' stepmother

Jail sentence increased for two cousins involved in ‘fatal burglary’ Michael Casey, Clonlong Halting Site, Limerick, had pleaded guilty to a series of burglaries, including one at the home of John O’Donoghue at Toomaline, Doon, on August 27th, 2015.

John O’Donoghue (62) collapsed and died as he was about to confront the two intruders

Flann O’Brien: Man of (many) letters, man of many masks 'We see the lines that demarcate Brian O’Nolan from Myles na gCopaleen shift and fade, as the man from Strabane frequently wrote with the irritation and hauteur of the Sage of Santry.'

Maebh Long, editor of 'The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien', on the writer's riotous letters to the press and revealing private correspondence, and how a theft almost robbed us of them

The Meghan Markle effect: her favourite beauty products do more with less In beauty terms, Markle is a breath of fresh air; she is certainly one of the best things to happen to the beauty industry in some time. Photograph: Eddie Mulholland/Getty Images

In beauty terms Meghan Markle is a breath of fresh air

Marian Finucane, Sean O’Rourke and Tubridy lose listeners for RTÉ Radio 1 Ryan Tubridy has lost 32,000 listeners over the past year, while Ray D’Arcy has lost 21,000, the latest figures show. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times.

Ivan Yates lifts Newstalk to its highest national share, latest ratings show

Heart of St Laurence O’Toole to be returned six years after it was stolen Handout photo of the 12th century heart of St Laurence O’Toole.

Relic was recovered undamaged by gardaí following lengthy investigation

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Irishman whose partner’s body was found in India claims she was murdered Liga Skromane, who was living in Swords, Co Dublin, with her partner Andrew Jordan, went missing in India last month. Photographs: Andrew Jordan

Liga Skromane (33), originally from Latvia but resident in Ireland for five years, went missing in March

Ronny Jackson withdraws as nominee to be US veteran affairs secretary White House physician Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson: faced a series of accusations about his workplace conduct, including that he recklessly prescribed drugs and exhibited drunken behaviour. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
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White House doctor says ‘false allegations’ against him have become a distraction

North Korea nuclear test site has collapsed, says Chinese study A photograph released by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the test launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile in Pyongyang, North Korea, in August 2017. Photograph: Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP

Report sheds light on North Korean announcement that it will suspend testing

Family of Irishman attacked in Liverpool are ‘devastated’ Sean Cox
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Sean Cox from Dunboyne remains in critical condition in hospital as two men charged

Everyone’s talking about GDPR, but who’s got their head around it? RSA security president Rohit Ghai said that GDPR was making data management and privacy a prominent issue all over the world, not just in the EU. Photograph: iStock

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