Increasing tax on fossil fuels will disproportionately hurt low-income earners, single-parent families and rural dwellers unless the revenue generated by it is carefully shared out, new research shows.

JUST over half of the population is highly active or fairly active on the sports field, running track or in the gym, research by the Irish Sports Council shows.

The Government is to pump more than €1.2bn into the North over the next seven years under a massive investment plan unveiled today.