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MANY OF US FAIL TO CLAIM THESE BENEFITS I AM NOT AN ALCOHOLIC: ‘WINE IS A SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE AND SOPHISTICATED AID TO COMBAT LIFE’S LITTLE HORRORS’ FINTAN O’TOOLE: MURKY LINKS BETWEEN YOUR IPHONE, OUR TAX TAKE AND COMPANIES DRILLING IN CARLOW PET SHOP BOYS AT 3ARENA: FIVE STARS FOR A LANDSLIDE OF ARCH, TART, AGELESS HITS MORE TOP STORIES Economy SOLO FIRST-TIME BUYERS OF NEW HOMES IN IRELAND HAVE AVERAGE INCOME OF €67,000 Soccer IRELAND FAIL TO IMPRESS AS THEY MAKE HEAVY WORK OF VICTORY OVER GIBRALTAR Soccer STEPHEN KENNY HAS DEPLETED HIS BENEFIT-OF-THE-DOUBT RESERVES WITH FANS In the News DUBLIN IS SMELLY AND FILTHY - WHO IS TO BLAME? Listen | 31:13 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscriber Only UKRAINE LETTER: ‘PEOPLE ARE TIRED BUT THEY WANT TO HELP EACH OTHER AND FINISH THIS WAR’ Health COCAINE OVERTAKES HEROIN TO BECOME IRELAND’S MOST COMMON PROBLEM DRUG Column TV VIEW: LIAM BRADY REMAINS HONEST - AND JUST A BIT GRUMPY - RIGHT TO THE VERY END Ireland DOGS AT CORK PUPPY FARM FOUND IN UNSANITARY AND FREEZING CONDITIONS BY INSPECTORS Crime & Law WHEN WILL GARDAÍ BE ABLE TO USE CONTROVERSIAL FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY? Housing & Planning TAOISEACH ‘DISINCLINED’ TO EXTEND HELP TO BUY SCHEME TO SECOND-HAND HOMES OPINION NO DOCTOR THINKS ‘THE ODD SPLIFF’ IS DISASTROUS BUT CANNABIS USE DISORDER IS A REAL PROBLEM Doctors must play a role in the desperately needed cannabis debate – shouting them down doesn’t help By Chris Luke THE GRIM REALITY OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: ‘I GOT PREGNANT AND IT WAS LIKE HE TURNED A DIMMER SWITCH’ By Sarah Benson MARTYN TURNER FINTAN O'TOOLE FINTAN O’TOOLE: MURKY LINKS BETWEEN YOUR IPHONE, OUR TAX TAKE AND COMPANIES DRILLING IN CARLOW THE IRISH TIMES VIEW ON IRELAND’S LEGAL SECTOR: MENDING A BROKEN SYSTEM THE IRISH TIMES VIEW ON US-CHINA RELATIONS: MANAGING TO GET ALONG LATEST STORIES PROBLEM GAMBLING: 12,000 SUFFER FROM IT, 125,000 ARE AT RISK, REVIEW FINDS LEGAL SERVICES REGULATOR UPHOLDS 53 OF ALMOST 1,500 COMPLAINTS AGAINST LAWYERS MARY HANNIGAN: ONWARD LIMPS THE LONG PERIOD OF REGENERATION FOR IRISH FOOTBALL HYUNDAI RAISES EV SALES GOAL TO 2 MILLION BY 2030 WOMEN’S AID RECORDS HIGHEST NUMBER OF DOMESTIC ABUSE CONTACTS IN FIFTY-YEAR HISTORY MOST READ 1 CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL LEAD CONTRACTOR TOLD TO STOP KEY WORKS ON HALF OF FACILITY’S OPERATING THEATRES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 HIGH COURT REFUSES TO ADJOURN PROCEEDINGS SEEKING REPOSSESSION OF HOUSE OWNED BY DAVY FITZGERALD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 I AM NOT AN ALCOHOLIC: ‘WINE IS A SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE AND SOPHISTICATED AID TO COMBAT LIFE’S LITTLE HORRORS’ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 ABOUT 60 PEOPLE ARRESTED IN DONEGAL AFTER THOUSANDS GATHER FOR RALLY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 TOURIST SUBMARINE WITH FIVE ON BOARD GOES MISSING ON DIVE TO WRECK OF TITANIC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HIGHLIGHTS OPTIONS FOR STARTING EARLY ON INVESTMENT PLAN FOR BABY ‘I FIND THAT WATERFORD IS A PLACE THAT’S VERY OPEN TO FOREIGNERS. I NEVER CAME ACROSS ANY RACISM’ FEW RUNNERS THINK ABOUT TRAINING THE MUSCLES THAT ALLOW THEM TO BREATHE IRELAND 3 GIBRALTAR 0: HOW THE IRISH PLAYERS RATED SPORT RORY MCILROY STRAIGHT BACK TO ACTION AFTER ‘FINE MARGINS’ DENY HIM MAJOR GLORY World number three set for the lucrative Travelers Championship as he seeks to bounce back after being pipped at the US Open JIM MCGUINNESS: IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, MY DARK HORSE GALWAY BECAME A SHADE DARKER IRELAND FAIL TO IMPRESS AS THEY MAKE HEAVY WORK OF VICTORY OVER GIBRALTAR STEPHEN KENNY HAS DEPLETED HIS BENEFIT-OF-THE-DOUBT RESERVES WITH FANS TV VIEW: LIAM BRADY REMAINS HONEST - AND JUST A BIT GRUMPY - RIGHT TO THE VERY END LEONA MAGUIRE: ‘WE’VE PEAKED A WEEK EARLY BUT HOPEFULLY WE CAN CONTINUE THAT RUN OF FORM AT BALTUSROL’ AIDAN O’BRIEN ON VERGE OF BECOMING MOST SUCCESSFUL TRAINER IN ROYAL ASCOT HISTORY BUSINESS SOLO FIRST-TIME BUYERS OF NEW HOMES IN IRELAND HAVE AVERAGE INCOME OF €67,000 Increased housing supply moderating house price inflation, report by Banking and Payments Federation Ireland report also suggests AIB LIFE JOINT VENTURE LAUNCHES, BACKED BY INVESTMENT OF €250M WIDOW OF BUILDER JOE COSGRAVE ALLEGES OPPORTUNISTIC ATTEMPT BY HIS BROTHERS TO TAKE CONTROL OF FIRM ARE YOU GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE? MANY OF US FAIL TO CLAIM THESE BENEFITS PENSION SCHEME ASSETS RECOVER FROM LAST YEAR’S BLIP CLASSIC CATCH-22 SITUATION ON ACCESS TO OWNERSHIP REGISTER ALIBABA NAMES NEW CHAIRMAN AND CEO IN SURPRISE SHAKE-UP LIFE & STYLE Your Wellness I AM NOT AN ALCOHOLIC: ‘WINE IS A SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE AND SOPHISTICATED AID TO COMBAT LIFE’S LITTLE HORRORS’ Your Family WHY MEDICAL STUDENTS NEED TO TALK ABOUT DYING People ‘I FIND THAT WATERFORD IS A PLACE THAT’S VERY OPEN TO FOREIGNERS. I NEVER CAME ACROSS ANY RACISM’ Your Wellness MY MIND WAS RACING. THE DOCTOR’S WEIRD QUESTIONS CONTINUED FOR 10 MINUTES Travel ‘WE GET A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WANT A JOINT ON THE GO, ON THE WAY TO WORK’ CULTURE Film FLAMIN’ NOT? CRITICS SAY POPULAR SNACK FOUNDING MYTH IS A HOAX Music CHRIS KABS: ‘SOMEONE CAME INTO MY ROOM, PUT A GUN TO MY HEAD AND ASKED WHERE MY FATHER WAS’ Books WORLD REFUGEE DAY: WALK A MILE IN THESE SHOES Stage BRIAN FRIEL’S TRANSLATIONS: ‘THIS PLAY IS ABOUT US, ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING IN UKRAINE’ TV & Radio LITVINENKO: DAVID TENNANT CAPTURES THE SENSE OF A MAN HAUNTED BY HIS STOLEN FUTURE WORLD UKRAINE REPORTS RUSSIAN ATTACKS ON KYIV AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY Biden says Putin nuclear threat is ‘real’ as weapons deployed in Belarus GREEK COAST GUARD UNDER SCRUTINY OVER RESPONSE TO MIGRANT SHIP SINKING ISRAELI TROOPS KILL PALESTINIAN MAN IN OCCUPIED WEST BANK MISSING TITANIC SUB: WHAT IS THE TITAN CRAFT AND WHAT IS IT LIKE ON BOARD? UKRAINIAN BOY (11) TO COMPETE FOR IRELAND IN FENCING COMPETITION IN PARIS UKRAINE LETTER: ‘PEOPLE ARE TIRED BUT THEY WANT TO HELP EACH OTHER AND FINISH THIS WAR’ MPS OVERWHELMINGLY BACK DAMNING REPORT THAT FOUND BORIS JOHNSON LIED TO BRITISH PARLIAMENT CRIME & LAW LEGAL SERVICES REGULATOR UPHOLDS 53 OF ALMOST 1,500 COMPLAINTS AGAINST LAWYERS Most complainants alleged misconduct and inadequate services with many alleging poor communication ALLEGATIONS MULTIPLE CHILD ABUSERS OPERATED IN ST JOHN AMBULANCE GARDA BODY CAMS TO INCLUDE FACIAL RECOGNITION BUT REAL-TIME USE PROHIBITED WHEN WILL GARDAÍ BE ABLE TO USE CONTROVERSIAL FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY? DISTRICT COURT PRESIDENT SAYS ‘UNIMAGINED BILLIONS AT OUR DISPOSAL’ OFFERS ‘BEST CHANCE’ TO PROPERLY PROTECT CHILDREN IN CARE DAUGHTER OF EDDIE FITZMAURICE WANTS TO KNOW WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DEATH BEFORE SHE DIES NURSE WITH ADDICTION TOOK CONTROLLED DRUGS FROM HOSPITAL FOR PERSONAL USE, COURT HEARS POLITICS POLITICAL WEEK STARTS WITH BANG AS PRESIDENT FORCED TO ISSUE APOLOGY The suspicion in the Coalition is the intervention was an intentional violation of the convention that the President doesn’t comment on Government policy AVOID CUTTING TAXES IN BUDGET TO PREVENT ‘SURGE’ IN INFLATION, TASC ADVISES PRIVATE RECORDS REVEAL DIVISIONS AMONG STATE OFFICIALS ON TELECOMS SECURITY LAW CHALLENGED BY CHINA FORUM ON SECURITY POLICY CRITICISED AS ‘FOOL’S MISSION’ BY NEUTRALITY CAMPAIGNERS GARDA BODY CAMS TO INCLUDE FACIAL RECOGNITION BUT REAL-TIME USE PROHIBITED GOVERNMENT TO COMMIT €45M FOR MAJOR EXPANSION OF DERRY UNIVERSITY IRISH OFFICIALS CLASHED ON IMPACT OF TELECOMS LAW ON CHINESE INVESTMENT News Digests Stay on top of the latest news with our daily newsletters each morning, lunchtime and evening Sign up On The Money Save money and make smart spending decisions with our weekly personal finance digest Subscribe HEALTH FEW RUNNERS THINK ABOUT TRAINING THE MUSCLES THAT ALLOW THEM TO BREATHE I AM NOT AN ALCOHOLIC: ‘WINE IS A SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE AND SOPHISTICATED AID TO COMBAT LIFE’S LITTLE HORRORS’ WHY MEDICAL STUDENTS NEED TO TALK ABOUT DYING HSE BOSS ORDERS FREEZE ON RECRUITMENT OF MANAGERS AND ADMINISTRATORS PROPERTY UPGRADED TWO-BED 40 MINUTES FROM THE CITY FOR €425,000 FOUR UNDER €185,000: HOMES IN WEXFORD, LOUTH, CARLOW AND CLARE WATERFORD COPPER COAST HOME WHERE JACKIE KENNEDY ONCE STOPPED BY FOR €2.5M WHAT WILL €365,000 BUY IN FRANCE, THE UAE, SPAIN, CANADA AND NORTH CORK? DON'T MISS PRIVATE RECORDS REVEAL DIVISIONS AMONG STATE OFFICIALS ON TELECOMS SECURITY LAW CHALLENGED BY CHINA POLITICAL WEEK STARTS WITH BANG AS PRESIDENT FORCED TO ISSUE APOLOGY IS GREYSTONES AT CAPACITY? ‘THERE IS A GENUINE CONCERN THAT THE TOWN CAN’T COPE’ WHO IS LOUISE RICHARDSON, THE WATERFORD-BORN ACADEMIC PRESIDENT HIGGINS HAS APOLOGISED TO? ‘WE GET A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WANT A JOINT ON THE GO, ON THE WAY TO WORK’ NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR HAPPIER AND HEALTHIER CITIES YOUR MONEY OPTIONS FOR STARTING EARLY ON INVESTMENT PLAN FOR BABY PENSION SCHEME ASSETS RECOVER FROM LAST YEAR’S BLIP CUSTOMER CARE AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE: ‘LIBRARIES MUST BE UP THERE WITH THE BEST’ FOOD THESE ARE THE BEST SUPERMARKET CHICKEN BREASTS I HAVE EVER USED FOOD & DRINK QUIZ: MIX TEQUILA, LIME JUICE AND TRIPLE SEC AND WHAT DO YOU GET? HEAT DOES WONDERS FOR COURGETTE, BUT IT’S ALSO DELICIOUS RAW IRELAND PROBLEM GAMBLING: 12,000 SUFFER FROM IT, 125,000 ARE AT RISK, REVIEW FINDS WOMEN’S AID RECORDS HIGHEST NUMBER OF DOMESTIC ABUSE CONTACTS IN FIFTY-YEAR HISTORY AVOID CUTTING TAXES IN BUDGET TO PREVENT ‘SURGE’ IN INFLATION, TASC ADVISES ABROAD I DIDN’T SEE THE POINT OF MOVING OUT AND TRYING TO MAKE AN ADULT LIFE FOR MYSELF IN IRELAND THE THINGS THAT USED TO ANNOY ME ABOUT IRELAND ARE NOW WHAT I MISS THE MOST ‘I SEE PORTUGAL AS HOME NOW. COMING FROM IRELAND, I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SAY THAT’ CLIMATE CRISIS CLIMATE CRISIS WAS PREDICTED, BUT GLOBAL WARMING IS NOW ENTERING UNCHARTED TERRITORY CLIMATE CHANGE IS SCARRING EUROPE, AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES MOST OF ALL ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ OCEAN TEMPERATURES AROUND IRISH COASTS DRIVING EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS EDUCATION ‘IF STUDENTS DON’T HELP OTHER STUDENTS, THEY CAN FEEL LEFT OUT’: KILKENNY SCHOOL CELEBRATES PUPILS FROM 25 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ADAPTING TO WORKING LIFE A KEY PART OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AHEAD: KEY FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR GRADUATES ENTERING THE WORKFORCE PODCASTS In the News HOW ALICE LOST €10,000 IN A REVOLUT SCAM Listen | 23:37 Ross O'Carroll-Kelly ROSS O’CARROLL-KELLY: ‘BLOOMSDAY IS GOD’S WAY OF TELLING MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE THEY HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS’ Listen | 06:55 Inside Politics POLL: DROP IN SUPPORT FOR FINE GAEL AND SINN FÉIN Listen | 37:32 In the News COULD A NEW STATE AGENCY SOLVE THE HOUSING CRISIS? Listen | 23:19 SUBSCRIBER ONLY Subscriber Only WHY MEDICAL STUDENTS NEED TO TALK ABOUT DYING By Sheila Wayman Subscriber Only OPTIONS FOR STARTING EARLY ON INVESTMENT PLAN FOR BABY By Dominic Coyle Subscriber Only JIM MCGUINNESS: IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, MY DARK HORSE GALWAY BECAME A SHADE DARKER By Jim McGuinness VIDEO Bunscoil McAuley Rice, in Callan is a School of Sanctuary, dedicated to being a safe and welcoming place for all, but especially those seeking refuge. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHOTOGRAPHY Gallery A selection of Monday's best pictures as chosen by Deputy Picture Editor Laura Hutton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DUBLIN DUBLIN AIRPORT WOULD REOPEN CAR PARK ‘IN WEEKS’ IF PURCHASE APPROVED BY REGULATOR VETERAN LABOUR COUNCILLOR ELECTED AS DÚN LAOGHAIRE-RATHDOWN COUNCIL CATHAOIRLEACH COUNCILLORS SEEK REJECTION OF JOHNNY RONAN AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEAL SOCIAL AFFAIRS PROBLEM GAMBLING: 12,000 SUFFER FROM IT, 125,000 ARE AT RISK, REVIEW FINDS WOMEN’S AID RECORDS HIGHEST NUMBER OF DOMESTIC ABUSE CONTACTS IN FIFTY-YEAR HISTORY AVOID CUTTING TAXES IN BUDGET TO PREVENT ‘SURGE’ IN INFLATION, TASC ADVISES TECHNOLOGY SERVICENOW BOSS ON RIDING THE TECH STORM: ‘I WAS THE FIRST ONE THAT BASICALLY SAID NO LAY-OFFS. PERIOD’ THE WEEK IN TECH: JOBS AT SERVICENOW, DATA CENTRES UNDER FIRE AND APPLE’S LATEST MACBOOK AIR HOW TO . . . GET ANDROID 14 NOW TRANSPORT RYANAIR APOLOGISES AFTER CREW MEMBER ANNOUNCED FLIGHT WAS LANDING IN TEL AVIV IN ‘OCCUPIED PALESTINE’ DAA ONLY LIKELY BIDDER FOR DUBLIN AIRPORT SITE ‘BUT NOT AT CRAZY PRICES’ CHC IRELAND TAKES LEGAL CHALLENGE AGAINST STATE AFTER LOSING COAST GUARD CONTRACT HISTORY MUSEUM OF COUNTRY LIFE COLLECTS COVID ARTEFACTS TO TELL STORY OF PANDEMIC FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS IRISH AID TO POSTWAR GERMANY RECALLED WITH RETURN OF ‘THANK YOU’ ALBUM ALMOST 80 YEARS ON IS POSTMODERNISM TO BLAME FOR OUR SOCIETY LOSING ITS WAY? OBITUARIES SILVIO BERLUSCONI OBITUARY: BRILLIANT AT WINNING POWER, LETHAL AT WIELDING IT BRONWYN CONROY OBITUARY: BUSINESSWOMAN WHO SET UP IRELAND’S FIRST BEAUTY SCHOOL CHRISTY DIGNAM: ONE OF IRELAND’S MOST RECOGNISABLE PERFORMERS AND WRITER OF POP/ROCK CLASSICS TUARASCÁIL ÉIRÍ AMACH 1798: MAIRBH CHNOCÁN NA MAC TÍRE COSTAS GAN CHUNTAS AN BHFUILIMID ANN FÓS? MOTORS HYUNDAI RAISES EV SALES GOAL TO 2 MILLION BY 2030 OUR TEST DRIVE: BMW XM AUDI A8 REVIEW: DISCRETION IS THIS PLUG-IN HYBRID’S TRADECRAFT YOU MAY ALSO LIKE... 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