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Annie Curbelo Lang (70) pictured in her home in Boyle, Co. Roscommon. She believes she has no choice but to work as she wouldn't be able to survive on the state pension. Photo: Brian Farrell

Pensioners to take a €600 hit due to surge in inflation, claims Age Action

Surging price rises are hitting the spending power of older people like a “tsunami” and are set to force many of them to go without essentials like food, heating, transport and medical costs, advocacy group Age Action has warned.

Desmond Byrne (52) died trying to save his sister, Muriel

Mourners to form special guards of honour at joint funeral for siblings who drowned in sea

Special guards of honour by sporting and community groups will be provided at the joint funeral of a heroic brother who died alongside the sister he desperately tried to save from the sea off Kerry last week.

Revealed: The counties where drivers face longest wait times for NCT

Motorists in some parts of the country face waiting until next year to book an appointment online for a National Car Test (NCT) as demand soars.

Met Éireann expects temperature to reach 32C on Monday as highest temperature recorded in Dublin today

Temperatures of up to 32C are expected tomorrow as a Met Éireann Status Yellow warning will continue until Tuesday morning.

Revealed: the counties which have a Covid incidence rate of more than 400 per 100,000

COUNTIES Laois, Waterford, Carlow, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Cork, Sligo and Limerick had the highest incidence rate of Covid-19 last week.

New regulations will hammer rentals, says IPAV chief, as he pushes to open up planning

Small private landlords will be driven from the rental market by new regulations designed to afford tenants greater protection, according to those working in the sector.

Niamh Devine, better known online as ‘Mythological Goddess’

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The longest day ... archaeologists and spiritualists battle over solstice gatherings at ancient sites

For centuries, the summer solstice has been a celebratory occasion. But tensions are mounting between archaeologists and spiritual groups over the return of solstice gatherings at Irish heritage sites, expected to take place today.

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‘Is it any wonder insurance premiums are high?’ – Judge throws out personal injury claims over staged crash

A road crash was staged in a bid to make money after two men who knew each other as teenagers met by chance on a night out.

Vilification of landlords has led to 200 fleeing the market every month

Exit of small landlords is the real issue in the rental market

Sir — The piece by Niall Toner on May 15 on the rental market (‘The only way is up’) stated that the latest Daft.ie report “made grim reading for renters” and quotes a range of numbers as if they were rents paid by the average sitting tenant in Ireland — that is, the more than 300,000 registered rental units in the State.

Peter Pringle was released from prison in 1995 after his conviction was overturned

Man who faced death penalty after he was wrongfully convicted for murder of two gardaí can continue damages claim – court

A man who spent nearly 15 years in prison before his conviction for the murder of two gardaí was overturned can continue his claim for damages against the State, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

Elber Twomey with her late husband and son, Con and Oisín, who both died in crash in England 10 years ago

‘I don’t want anyone to go through what I endured’ – mother who lost all her family to suicidal driver

Every year Elber Twomey stages a special “Remorial” event to remember the family she lost to a driver suffering a mental health crisis.

Dan Murphy, the general manager of the Galway Bay Hotel. Photo: Ray Ryan

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Hospitality crisis: ‘We’re open only three days, we simply can’t find the staff to do more’

Restaurateurs and hoteliers who survived the pandemic are now fighting on a new front – staffing shortages in the hospitality industry have reached crisis point.

Crime Line Curator Martin Fagan at the National Famine Museum in Strokestown. Photo: Brian Farrell

First look: Behind the scenes at the new National Famine Museum

When local businessman Jim Callery found the 1846 petition from the tenants of Cloonahee, Co Roscommon, to the then landlord of Strokestown, Major Denis Mahon, he realised immediately that he had burst the Famine’s time capsule.

Farmer Tom Carney in February 2020, with neighbours Laurence Fallon and Leo Kenny by his sheep shed in Rahara, Co Roscommon, which was flooded by the swelling of Lough Funshinagh. Photo: Brian Farrell

Lake that caused flood chaos to keep conservation area status

OPW Minister Patrick O’Donovan asked a government colleague if they were considering removing a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) status for a lake that had caused flooding chaos.

Women in Union Square, New York, last week, protesting for the right to choose

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Declan Lynch Opinion We can clearly see that America is not ‘divided’ – it is under attack

The 20th century — the ‘American century’ as they called it — finally came to an end last week in the country which gave it that name.

Sinéad Crowley has also written the very successful DS Clare Boyle detective novels

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The Belladonna Maze by RTÉ’s Sinéad Crowley is a page-turner full of twists

The Belladonna Maze Sinéad Crowley Head of Zeus, €14.99

Tragic Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee to be buried next week

The funeral of Aidan Moffitt is to take place at noon on Easter Monday.

Michael Tighe went on three United Nations peacekeeping tours of duty in the Congo

Obituary: Michael Tighe, siege of Jadotville veteran who fought for recognition of fellow soldiers’ courage

Army veteran Michael Tighe, who has died at the age of 83 , was one of the last of the Irish soldiers involved in the September 1961 Siege at Jadotville in the Congo, which was the subject of a widely praised Netflix film in 2016 starring Jamie Dornan as company commander, the late Pat Quinlan.

Raymond Kearns left school at 16 but realised there was a lack of employment opportunities without a qualification. Picture by Collins, Dublin

Obituary: Raymond Kearns, astute businessman who founded the Institute of Education in 1969 and changed the face of private education in Ireland

Raymond Kearns, who changed the face of private education in Ireland, left school at 16 and then, in later life after he had taken a PhD in mathematics, went on to found Ireland’s first and most successful grind school, the Institute of Education.

Ban athletes from Russia and Belarus, Sports Ireland told

Sport Ireland has been told to implement a ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes competing here, as part of an agreed set of principles negotiated by sports ministers worldwide.

Zipit is planning to build the longest zip line in Ireland, almost 1km among the tree tops

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Zipit to invest €2.5m in plan to build Ireland’s longest zip line

Outdoor forest adventure company Zipit is to invest about €2.5m in plans to roll out new zip line parks at Coillte forest parks, including at the popular Donadea forest park.

William ‘Billy’ Kinsella, from Ballythomas Hill in Gorey, Co Wexford, was working to clear debris from a road in Ballythomas, Co. Wexford, Ireland

Storm Eunice: ‘I prayed we’d be safe’ – wife of tragic council worker killed by falling tree

A COUNCIL worker killed by a falling tree during Storm Eunice has been remembered as “an extremely great husband and father”.

Doctors at work in the Covid intensive care unit of a hospital. Picture by Jens Schlueter

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‘I don’t want to choose who’ll get into ICU and who won’t’

The chief executive of the Saolta hospital group had been at his desk since 6.30am on Friday. By 9am, Tony Canavan and a team of hospital and clinical managers were crunching numbers. By lunchtime, he had drafted an email and circulated it to all hospitals in the group.

Pensioners to take a €600 hit due to surge in inflation, claims Age Action

Mourners to form special guards of honour at joint funeral for siblings who drowned in sea

Revealed: The counties where drivers face longest wait times for NCT

Met Éireann expects temperature to reach 32C on Monday as highest temperature recorded in Dublin today

Revealed: the counties which have a Covid incidence rate of more than 400 per 100,000

New regulations will hammer rentals, says IPAV chief, as he pushes to open up planning

The longest day ... archaeologists and spiritualists battle over solstice gatherings at ancient sites

‘Is it any wonder insurance premiums are high?’ – Judge throws out personal injury claims over staged crash

Exit of small landlords is the real issue in the rental market

Man who faced death penalty after he was wrongfully convicted for murder of two gardaí can continue damages claim – court

‘I don’t want anyone to go through what I endured’ – mother who lost all her family to suicidal driver

Hospitality crisis: ‘We’re open only three days, we simply can’t find the staff to do more’

First look: Behind the scenes at the new National Famine Museum

Lake that caused flood chaos to keep conservation area status

Declan Lynch Opinion We can clearly see that America is not ‘divided’ – it is under attack

The Belladonna Maze by RTÉ’s Sinéad Crowley is a page-turner full of twists

Tragic Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee to be buried next week

Obituary: Michael Tighe, siege of Jadotville veteran who fought for recognition of fellow soldiers’ courage

Obituary: Raymond Kearns, astute businessman who founded the Institute of Education in 1969 and changed the face of private education in Ireland

Ban athletes from Russia and Belarus, Sports Ireland told

Zipit to invest €2.5m in plan to build Ireland’s longest zip line

Storm Eunice: ‘I prayed we’d be safe’ – wife of tragic council worker killed by falling tree

‘I don’t want to choose who’ll get into ICU and who won’t’

Irish fraudster fails to show UK courts that he can’t meet £9m liability

TV reviews: How can we know what Northern unionists think if we don’t listen to what they say?

Roscommon hygiene services company Service Matters is bought by Germany’s CWS

This Working Life – ‘I have a wonderful team around me, but the heroes are the palliative care nurses’

Coronavirus is found in sewage treatment plants across country

Entire village ‘will have to be abandoned if flooding is not fixed’

Entire village ‘will have to be abandoned if flooding is not fixed’