Additional voluntary contributions (AVCs) are a tax efficient way of potentially boosting a tax free lump sum on retirement but there are limits

No dead air for two hours of hits and surprises as Williams asks the audience for adoration

‘Whoever is buying the houses is driving up their prices, so who could it be?’ writes David McWilliams

It was a party partially to celebrate a birthday, but also to mark a departure

JD Vance is at the heart of this world view, which prises imperial strength, tradition, faith and hierarchical order over the liberal internationalist regime across the Atlantic

Plus: Fine Gael’s summer of fun, a bad year for trout and a good opportunity for the ríomhaire

Ask Roe: ‘She hasn’t cloned his phone but has speculated about doing so’

TG4 series shows an association grappling for over a century with others’ perceptions of its games

Primary and post-primary schools are struggling to fill teaching posts and having to resort to employing unqualified people. Why?

A film about Sinéad O’Connor could prove welcome

States; One Mountain: Sold; à la belle étoile; Highway Cottage

The Icelandic crime writer on his latest novel, The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer; the trickiest Agatha Christie novel he has translated to Icelandic; and his favourite Irish authors

The author displays an eccentricity of expression and a winningly agile approach to plot

There are stereotypes but the author also offers moments of stunning incisiveness

Phillips writes with the help of her husband, whose presence in the narrative grows as her illness progresses

Though not a history of gritty realism in film and beyond, kitchen sink is certainly the prevailing mood

Reviews of Lagan Lights, The Bridge to Always and Wrong Women

Ann Taaffe died in December 2024, having been predeceased by her husband Toss Taaffe

A new work by Judy O’Kane

At the centre of the debate will be whether the Budget 2026 should include a cost of living package