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Charlie Weston: Take time to claim back tax on your health costs

Tuesday February 09 2010

NOW is the time to set aside 40 minutes to claim back a tax refund on the medical expenses you incurred last year.

Loophole on penalty points was known two years ago

Tuesday February 09 2010

THE Government has known for up to two years about the legal loophole that allows reckless drivers to escape penalty points -- yet it still cannot provide a date for when it will be closed.

50pc jump in number applying to attend UK colleges

Tuesday February 09 2010

THE number of Irish students applying for university places in Britain and Northern Ireland has rocketed by 50pc this year.

Two shot in US bowling alley row

Tuesday February 09 2010

THE parents of an Irishman who was shot outside a New York bowling alley after he was thrown out for smoking inside the venue have flown to the US to be at their son's bedside.

Victims ask Pope for €1bn

Tuesday February 09 2010

A LETTER calling on the Vatican to provide a €1bn compensation package for survivors of clerical child abuse in Ireland is to be hand delivered to Pope Benedict by Cardinal Sean Brady, when the Irish bishops hold summit talks with the Pontiff.

IMF backs the creation and role of NAMA

Tuesday February 09 2010

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reaffirmed its backing of the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), the body designed to purge the banks of billions in toxic developer loans.

Judy Jordan with her daughter Lily at their home in Irishtown, Dublin. Ms Jordan is being forced to pay a huge premium because of a previous flood-related claim

Claim shame: Are insurers making it harder for claimants to switch?

Tuesday February 09 2010

ARE insurers turning their backs on householders who have had to make a claim on their insurance? The question is prompted by the recent floods in large parts of the country and the big freeze at the start of the year.

Trap's hopefuls to miss Samba lesson

Tuesday February 09 2010

GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI will wait until the summer to look at younger players with a view to the future, with the Italian set to stick with experience in search of a positive result from next month's friendly with Brazil.

Kevin Myers: Failure is actually what independent Ireland has always done best. We even failed at prosperity

Kevin Myers Tuesday February 09 2010

THE Taoiseach's recent 1916 speech, and the warm reception the references to the "heroes" of the GPO got from the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, were depressingly illuminating.

Clarification: Padraig O'Gorman

Monday February 08 2010

The Irish Independent newspaper would like to correct inaccuracies in its article "Proposing a memorial for IRA terrorists is grotesque" by Mr Kevin Myers on Tuesday 2nd February last in which it stated and implied that a proposal from Coiste Cairde na Laochra to Enniscorthy Town Council to erect a granite stone memorial to honour five IRA men who died in Edentubber in 1957, was the "apparent wishes of the town clerk", Mr Padraig O’Gorman.

Myers . . . Protestants . . . Fiddling . . . Miracle

Monday February 08 2010

  • KEVIN Myers has succeeded, once again, in proving his adeptness in brandishing a hammer. His article (Irish Independent, February 5) hits the nail squarely on the head in contrasting the responses to the recent earthquakes in China and Haiti by governments and charities.

Mature Matters : Forgetfulness

Monday February 08 2010

Q My 76-year-old mother has become more forgetful in recent years. How do I know if this is normal ageing or will it get worse?