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Legal advice: can I add my daughter to my herd number?
Aisling Meehan
Putting a child’s name on a herd number can have unintended consequences, writes Aisling Meehan.
Legal advice: can I add my daughter to my herd number?
Health special: big gulf between hospital parking income and costs
22 January 2025 Health
Health special: big gulf between hospital parking income and costs
In 2023, hospitals took in nearly €16m in car parking fees. In part two of our series, we look into how that money was spent, writes Margaret Hawkins.
Money Mentor: what help is available for medical expenses?
22 January 2025 Money Mentor
Money Mentor: what help is available for medical expenses?
Tax reliefs and credits are available to assist with high costs for farming families, writes Marty Murphy.
‘The roof in the refugee centre is their only space to grow food’
From the top of Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem and beyond, reporter Oliver Moore reports on the horrors Palestinian farmers are enduring daily.
22 January 2025 Features
Christmas quiz answers and the winners are...
Find out how you fared in the Christmas bumper quiz and if you’re one of the lucky ones to scoop a prize sponsored by Ireland’s Bluebook.
22 January 2025 Features
Bootcamp is a perfect fit for family farm
Getting into shape in the countryside has proved to be a winning concept for Tommie Costello’s Cuckoo Hill Bootcamp in Roscommon, writes Deirdre Verney.
22 January 2025 Features
Sowing the seeds of innovation
Students explored innovative solutions for agricultural problems at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, writes Rosalind Skillen.
16 January 2025 Features
Health Special: are hospital car park charges a tax on ill health?
In part one of our two-week series, figures show hospitals took almost €16m in parking fees in 2023, in what many perceive as a tax on being sick, writes Margaret Hawkins.
15 January 2025 Health
Desperate Farmhusband: ‘it’s hard to feel productive at this time of year'
No cows to milk mean later wake-up calls for our Desperate Farmhusband. Does he have too much time of his hands?
15 January 2025 Features
Money Mentor: making the most of unexpected income
What to do with unexpected income and how to make it work for you.
15 January 2025 Money Mentor
Consumer advice: tips for making the big switch and save
Switching utility and service providers can make a big difference to your monthly bills, writes Margaret Barrett.
15 January 2025 Consumer
Celebrate the mnásome over St Brigid’s weekend
There are lot of ways to celebrate Lá Fhéile Bríde on 1 February, or Imbolc, the start of spring, writes Deirdre Verney.
15 January 2025 Features