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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
  • Social Affairs
  • 13:36

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
  • Health
  • 03:00

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

  • CervicalCheck service ‘in jeopardy’
  • Woman gets €2.5m settlement
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.
  • Courts
  • 13:03

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.
  • Courts
  • 13:12

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.'
  • Books
  • 09:39

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
  • Beauty
  • 08:28

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.
  • Media & Marketing
  • 12:07

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.
  • Irish News
  • 08:52

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
  • Crime & Law
  • 13:45

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
  • US
  • 13:26

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
  • Asia-Pacific
  • 13:41

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

  • Kim to cross border for landmark summit
Family of Irishman attacked in Liverpool are ‘devastated’ Sean Cox
  • UK
  • 09:25

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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  • 05:50

Net Results: General Data Protection Regulation the top topic at RSA conference

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Chris Coleman ‘doesn’t know’ where Jack Rodwell is 13:36
Save the 8th campaign calls on Dr Peter Boylan to resign 13:36

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1 Single workers bear the brunt in Ireland’s personal tax system
2 What is an incel? The term used by Toronto attack suspect explained
3 Marian Finucane, Sean O’Rourke and Tubridy lose listeners for RTÉ Radio 1
4 Step back in time to fairytale house on Killiney Hill for €9.25m
5 The Meghan Markle effect: her favourite beauty products do more with less
6 Doctors not compelled to tell women of cancer test errors
7 Policing in Ireland about to enter a realm of change
8 Everyone’s talking about GDPR, but who’s got their head around it?
9 Save the 8th campaign calls on Dr Peter Boylan to resign
10 Family of Irishman attacked in Liverpool are ‘devastated’
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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
 
Graduating gardaí from the Garda College, Templemore, Co Tipperary. In reality, and in technology terms, Ireland is a long way behind in police investment. File photograph:  Paddy Whelan
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Business

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

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

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 Everyone’s talking about GDPR, but who’s got their head around it?
The president of the European Central Bank (ECB) and chairman of the European Systemic Risk Board Mario Draghi. Draghi to play down concerns as ECB keeps policy unchanged
  • Marian Finucane, Sean O’Rourke and Tubridy lose listeners for RTÉ Radio 1
  • Uniphar to buy healthcare arm of Sisk Group for €65m

Sport

Paul Dunne shot an opening round of 71 in China. Photograph: Andrew Redington/Getty Paul Dunne seven shots off the pace in China Open
  • Golf

25-year-old has plenty of work to do to reel in surprise leader Daxing Jin in Beijing

Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya celebrates after crossing the finish line to win the elite women’s race in the London Marathon. Photograph:   Justin Setterfield/Getty Images Sonia O’Sullivan: When pacing gets in the way of proper racing
Bayern Munich’s Mats Hummels vies for possession with Real Madrid’s Marcelo during the Champions League semi-final first-leg match at the Allianz Arena. Photograph: Javier Soriano/AFP/Getty Images TV View: Bayern and Real prove there’s no show like a Mo show
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Pain, survival and chaos on the train from Newry

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Everyone’s talking about GDPR, but who’s got their head around it?

Life & Style

Irish astrologer Martha Clarke, who is currently based in Boston, connects with clients all over the world. Can't decide where in the world to live? This Irish woman follows the stars

Martha Clarke specialises in astrocartography, a form of astrology that helps people choose where to live


I upgraded rental properties over the years and now plan to sell. Can I offset the repairs against tax?
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 The Meghan Markle effect: her favourite beauty products do more with less
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Culture

Dave Rudden: 'For too long the house many writers have built has had a very clear sense of who belonged inside and who was locked out.' Photograph: Nick Bradshaw In a trilogy, first you build a house, next you reveal its secret rooms, then burn it down
  • Dave Rudden

There is nothing realer than writing for people experiencing the world for the first time without the benefit and shield of experience

 Even at the level of her complexion, the pale, red-haired Moll is out of step with her well-heeled island community. Beast: A psychosexual thriller with a touch of Hitchcock
Kanye West: 'You don’t have to agree with Trump but the mob can’t make me not love him.' Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA Kanye West praises Donald Trump: ‘He’s got dragon energy’
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  • Jazz comedy that plays with space and form

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Sinn Féin’s electoral politics: under the Belfast Agreement the party could win every seat in the Dáil and still not circumvent the unionist veto. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Newton Emerson: If Sinn Féin is good enough for us, it’s good enough for you
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Banker pay: “Nothing to do with me, guv. It was all about science, the sacred independence of a process that required no fewer than three external consultants and unicorns.” File photograph: Getty Images Kathy Sheridan: Unicorn returns to the table as bankers’ sense of entitlement strong as ever
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Newton Emerson: If Sinn Féin is good enough for us, it’s good enough for you Newton Emerson: If Sinn Féin is good enough for us, it’s good enough for you
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‘Leslie. This storm will pass. Denis’: The INM controversy

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Le Big Mac: Emmanuel Macron’s rise and rise

He’s charismatic, an economic success and a player on the world stage. But that’s not enough to impress the French

Everything you want to know about consent but were afraid to ask

A troubling lesson from the Belfast rape trial is that our understanding of what consent is is unclear

Brexit

UK needs to ‘climb down from Brexit barricades’, Hogan says

UK needs to ‘climb down from Brexit barricades’, Hogan says EU Commissioner tells Seanad Brexit irreversible and Britian must ‘soften’ its stance

Ireland has 208 border crossings, officials from North and South agree

‘Nightmare’ of mapping out all roads, paths and dirt tracks that traverse 500km frontier

UK trapped by self-imposed contradiction on Brexit, says Hogan

EU commissioner to take aim at Theresa May’s ‘red lines’ opposing customs union

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Takashi Miyazaki moved to Ireland from Japan in 2008. He now lives in Cork with his Irish wife Stephanie and their two sons. The couple own and run two restaurants in Cork city, Miyazaki and Ichigo Ichie.

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Irish astrologer Martha Clarke, who is currently based in Boston, connects with clients all over the world. Can't decide where in the world to live? This Irish woman follows the stars

Martha Clarke specialises in astrocartography, a form of astrology that helps people choose where to live

Emmet Lyons (24) is living in New York City on a J-1 visa, currently interning for the New York Democrats and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s re-election campaign. Have Irish Americans forgotten they come from a ‘sh**hole’ country too?
Michelle Walsh has moved back to Dublin after time spent living in Morocco, Germany and France. Moving home to Ireland was like a series of ice-bucket challenges
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