VAT rate cut for hospitality is back on the table - but will it be enough?
Move to reduce rate to 9% will limit room for income tax measures
Wills and spouses: Why you cannot just cut a wife out of your will
Legal right share means a spouse has an automatic right to at least half of your estate whatever your will says
Boston rape case: The full story of Dublin firefighter Terence Crosbie’s trial
Firefighter was in Boston to participate in St Patrick’s Day parade but was arrested on rape charges and now been in jail for 15 months
By Susan Zalkind in Boston
House raffles are a big, beautiful, awful sign of the times
Their popularity is a grim statement about a property market in which your best prospect of owning a house may well be to win one in a lottery
I have met someone who should be the ideal man for me - but I don’t want anything serious
Ask Roe: I have no desire to hurt this man who, in so many ways, seems to be the ideal person for me
An encounter near Barcelona’s Sagrada Família taught me a lesson about other tourists
I was in Barcelona, near the Sagrada Família: tourist central. Everyone was narky
Trinity College Dublin issues €1m pest control tender to help tackle rats, bed bugs - and ‘booklice’
Plus Rex Ryan, son of the late Gerry Ryan, plays the Monk, the new Beanie Babies and a grass-cutting row
Please understand, a liveable future for humanity on this planet is really a very minor concern
A new report lays bare what can no longer be denied: capitalism is incompatible with any kind of human flourishing on this planet
Family fallouts: ‘I can’t describe the heartache of not having a relationship with my sister’
When sibling relationships fall apart, it can have devastating consequences on our emotional wellbeing and our physical health
In 28 Years Later, Brexit Britain runs screaming towards its Apocalypse Now. What took it so long?
Danny Boyle, a stubborn Mancunian of Irish descent, can feel proud of showing how the subject can be addressed without dragging your art into po-faced agitprop
Fiction in translation: The strange workings of myth and history, a work of limpid beauty set in the Bosnian countryside, and more
New books from China, Spain, South Korea, Croatia, Italy and Peru
Books in brief: A history of plaster; Einstein for the general reader; influencers’ literary antecedents
Reviews of new works by Alain Corbin, Diana Kormos Buchwald and Michael D Gordin, and Nicola Wilson
By NJ McGarrigle
I’m always telling Sorcha to tone down the southside when we come out to Bray but she never listens
Sorcha’s friend Claire has opened yet another cafe but this time with a new gimmick: all the staff are ex-offenders
Collected Poems by Gerard Fanning: Elliptical, at times cryptic works built on mood and atmosphere
Early on, one feels the need to ask for a primer for some of Fanning’s enigmas but later he seems to relax into a more open, approachable clarity
By Declan Ryan
Zach Bryan in Dublin review: Gen Z’s Garth Brooks puts on a charming - and lengthy - show
Gen Z’s Garth Brooks - or Springsteen - puts on a charming show in this busy park venue
By Rebecca Daly
Five things we learned from the Lions’ loss to Argentina
Finlay Bealham did well but there are plenty of things for Andy Farrell’s team to work on before facing Australia
Ireland needs to ditch empty promises and economic fairy tales and start confronting reality
Official documents seem to exist in some kind of parallel universe, with no expectation that targets can be met
By Cliff Taylor
Annie McCarrick’s family in Long Island: ‘The gardaí did not investigate who we thought was guilty in the very beginning’
The mother, aunt and oldest friend of the American woman who went missing in Ireland in 1993 talk about how they would take comfort in having their long-standing belief validated
By Keith Duggan
Sinéad Gibney tells of how cousin Des Bishop ‘helped me to reflect on my own drinking’
‘My drinking had always been too heavy. I had my first drink at 14,’ says Social Democrats TD
By Harry McGee
Malachy Clerkin: I cannot wait for Lions tour, but why does rugby always feel this need for overblown nonsense?
Beauty of a Lions tour is its unique one-moment-in-time energy – sell that instead of all the tired battleworn guff
If our Geraldine can thrive in Trump’s Washington, she might be a worthy winner of the race for the Áras
Plus: tragic fox news, a Rose county by any other name and AK-47 reloads and opens fire
By Miriam Lord
Is it time for the Social Democrats to end Eoin Hayes’s purgatory?
Before the Dáil even sat, the Social Democrats were down a TD over questions about his shareholding in a company with close ties to the IDF
The Irish firms seen as safe from Trump’s planned ‘revenge tax’
Foreign companies operating in the US that are majority owned by US investors would not be affected by the special tax
By Joe Brennan
Nicky English: For Galway, Tipp are a more palatable task than Kilkenny
Tipperary are improving but vulnerable to pace, while John Kiely will want to see Limerick’s graph rising against Dublin
‘We’ve dropped the ball’: Ireland’s housing targets will be missed because the water, electricity and roads required can’t be delivered
Badly needed scaling up of house-building is threatened by transport and utilities projects stuck in the planning pipeline. What is to be done?
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