Tax-efficient approaches to rewarding farm labour can help retain workers, says Declan McEvoy, head of tax with ifac.

Setting down his paper after digesting the gloomy pre-Budget forecast, Brian Duggan barely needed a moment to recall exactly how many jobs he’s applied for since being laid off.

A FATHER sobbed uncontrollably throughout a two-hour inquest yesterday, which heard how his 33-year-old wife and their eight-month-old son drowned in a stream.

TONY MULLINS is already thinking in terms of Cheltenham for his exciting Decoy Daddy, who was far too good for market-leader, Venalmar, in the Mitchelstown Hurdle at Cork yesterday.

FOR the first Saturday in weeks the small north Cork village of Kilworth woke up to clear summer skies.