If an intervention on stamp duty applying to multiple unit sales was pursued, sources said it would have to be carefully designed as not to impact buyers such as approved housing bodies and local authorities. File photograph: iStock 3:57 Housing crisis: Sharp hike in stamp duty considered to deter bulk-buying of homes by investors
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A family member carries an urn containing ashes from the remains of a Covid-19 victim at an open crematorium on the outskirts of Bengaluru, Karnataka state, India. Photograph: Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo Total number of Covid-19 deaths in India officially tops 250,000
Tuesday’s bulletin from the National Public Health Emergency Team means 4,929 have died during the pandemic. File photograph: The Irish Times Covid-19: Nine further deaths and 379 new infections
Lidl antigen tests which went on sale last week.Photograph:Gareth Chaney/Collins Q&A: Does antigen testing have a place in Ireland’s reopening?
‘I hadn’t done my homework on Ireland. I didn’t know what I’d let myself in for’ Corry de Jongh, originally from Holland, in Howth, Co Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

New to the Parish: Corry de Jongh arrived from the Netherlands in 1976

‘I’ve turned into a violent person since my man cheated on me’ I have never been violent or arrogant before, but since I met him and since he cheated on me, I see myself changing. Photograph: iStock

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Kathy Sheridan: Eoghan Harris’s defence doesn’t stack up Eoghan Harris’s complaint of being deprived of platforms was predictable and nonsensically incongruous. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien

There is a distinction between robust commentary and vitriolic abuse

‘We put off having a child’: Readers share their experiences of the property crisis and low wages Earnings for workers in their 20s have flat-lined which, in real terms, means they are earning less than they did in the 1990s and 2000s, according to the ESRI. Photograph: iStock

Updated: Millennials on the impact of having a lower standard of living than their parents

EPA calls for year-round bathing water tests at popular swimming spots Water quality should be monitored year-round at beaches where increasing numbers of people are regularly swimming outside the summer season, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times. 3:57

Agency’s bathing water quality report finds ‘excellent’ standards at 75% of 148 sites tested

Holohan expresses concerns about antigen testing to Donnelly Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins 5:06

Divide grows between public health figures and Ministers on use of such tests

Rents rise 2.1% in first quarter nationally as Dublin trend turns upward again Rents in the capital increased in the first quarter but remain lower year-on-year. Photograph: i Stock 3:06

Rental supply in city ‘not as loose’ as it was in late 2020, Daft.ie report finds

Taoiseach says An Taisce should not appeal court decision on cheese factory “I would appeal that there would be no further appeals against this project now given the fact that courts have ruled very clearly in relation to it and that many, many jobs depend on it,” Micheál Martin said. Photograph: Julien Behal Photography/PA Wire

Green Party MEP expresses concern over calls saying undue pressure is inapprpriate

Doolin B&B ranked among 20 best guesthouses in the world Daly’s House in Doolin, Co Clare was named the best-rated B&B in Ireland, the eighth best B&B in Europe and the 19th best worldwide in the Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards. 3:57

Owner of Daly’s House says bookings starting to trickle in for later in the year from the US

Miriam Lord: Not the Reit time for first-time buyers or water charges It’s all about the cuckoo investors and the vulture funds and curbing their spread further and further into the housing market

Mary Lou McDonald is mining a rich seam of public discontent and she knows it

Ballymurphy: ‘The world is being told now what we knew all along’ Families of victims react following the verdict into the Ballymurphy inquest at Waterfront Hall in Belfast. British soldiers used “clearly disproportionate” force during violence in Northern Ireland that saw 10 civilians shot dead in 1971, a coroner ruled on Tuesday, finding the victims all innocent of any crimes. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP 1:50

White flags bear word ‘innocent’ as relatives of 10 victims welcome clearing of names

‘I was absolutely bricking it’ – Tadhg Furlong on waiting for Lions announcement Tadhg Furlong is tackled by New Zealand’s Jerome Kaino during the second Test in Wellington on the 2017 Lions Tour. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho 5:06

Ireland tighthead looking forward to enjoying the full tour this time around

Tributes paid to 11-year-old girl killed in road collision in Co Kerry Eleven-year-old girl killed in road collision near home in Co Kerry named locally. Photograph: Rip.ie

Death casts shadow over area as family endures second tragedy in recent months

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