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The general election campaign is in its sixth day, with Taoiseach Simon Harris promising, in an Instagram video, a permanent double child benefit in August to help parents with the back-to-school costs. More on that below. We’ll bring you all…

A father of two who survived a “very traumatic” crane incident at Thomond Bridge in Limerick that claimed the lives of two of his co-workers has reached an undisclosed settlement against a number of parties, the High Court heard on…

Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin has criticised “slightly daft” proposals from academics to serve beer in two-third pint measures as he called for no further regulations to be introduced in the under-pressure pub sector. It came as the pub giant posted…

Agnes O’Casey, Irish costar of Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s The Miracle Club, released late last year, cherished an apparently characteristic encounter with Dame Maggie Smith. “Sometimes I’d make a fool of myself,” O’Casey told this writer. “She’d recite poetry. I’d say: ‘Did…