WE traced Ronald Reagan’s ancestral roots to Ballyporeen and Muhammad Ali’s to Ennis.

IF one assumes the average industrial wage to be €35,700, then a family of two children with one parent working outside the home and the other within will pay an extra €360 tax levy per annum.

MAKING a will is a socially approved of activity like taking exercise. I’m all for it. For other people. It may be irrational to believe that taking exercise or writing a will would kill you, but what about Jim Fixx, I ask you?

A PAMPERED pooch who inherited $12 million (€8m) from a US hotel magnate earlier this year has fled to Florida under an assumed name after receiving death threats.

TROUBLE the white Maltese dog will continue to live the royal life in the US, and then be buried alongside owner Leona Helmsley in a mausoleum maintained by a $12 million (€8.8m) trust fund.

American woman Leona Helmsley has left her beloved Maltese dog "Trouble" a $12m (€8.8m) trust fund, according to her will, which was made public in New York surrogate court, according to published reports.

RAY BURKE could elevate hubris into an art form.