How can I make sure an inheritance does not cost me my disability allowance?

Inheritance can be a double-edged sword when you are on a means-tested payment from the Department of Social Protection ...

Two men arrested over Louvre theft - media reports

TWO SUSPECTS IN LOUVRE HEIST CASE ARRESTED BY FRENCH POLICE ON SATURDAY EVENING, LE PARISIEN NEWSPAPER REPORTS ...

Presidential election result was as expected and yet remarkable

The fallout from this result will reverberate for a considerable time, particularly for the losers, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael ...

Miriam Lord: Catherine Connolly rises serenely as brutal presidential election has uplifting end

Micheál Martin and Simon Harris tried to put brave faces on their parties’ sorry performances, while the parties of the ...

Trump signs number of trade deals with southeast Asian countries

US president Donald Trump signed a flurry of deals on trade and critical minerals with three southeast Asian partners on ...

Starmer’s new Brexit line: it’s a disaster – and Farage is to blame

Downing Street insiders say Labour’s frontbench have been primed to blame the current economic woes on Brexit and Reform UK ...
Opinion

My son asks: ‘What’s the worst thing to ever happen to you?’ ‘You getting leukaemia,’ I say

Gratitude rushes up in ordinary moments where my brain is screaming ‘thank you for letting my child live.’ Or maybe it’s ‘please’ ...

More than 76,500 complaints made to councils last year

Local authorities have been told to get tougher on environmental offences after members of the public made 76,500 complaints about illegal dumping, water pollution, noise and smells last year. Just ...

‘The election blew up in our face’ - how Jim Gavin and Fianna Fáil dramatically fell out of the race

As the election approached, veterans such as former taoiseach Bertie Ahern and ex-minister Mary Hanafin were knocking on the ...

From Dublin to Cape Verde: ‘Apart from family and friends the only thing I miss is the odd bag of Tayto crisps’

Amy Keenan Molloy moved with her husband to Cape Verde in 2005, where she has run bars, set up a charity and become an author ...

‘Here’s me,’ Trump is saying, ‘a literal king, shitting on your democratic protest’

To the soundtrack of Kenny Loggins’s 1986 single Danger Zone from the film Top Gun, Trump flies over a crowd of protestors, ...

Momentum that boosted Catherine Connolly spells trouble for Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil

At the outset of Catherine Connolly’s campaign, she spoke about a movement – if this idea initially felt hypothetical, it ...