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Drawdowns from an Australian superannuation fund in retirement appear to be exempt from normal tax on income in Ireland

Have you had your vaccine? You really should

Driver had on-track collision in before vehicle crashed into crowd, police said

Ahead of Cop30 in Brazil, EU environment ministers have agreed a watered-down goal to cut emissions by 90% by 2040

I try to nurture a sense of awe in the face of Australia’s alien (to me) natural world. But I miss the wet ferns in the Kerry rain

Suzanne Rees was left on the Great Barrier Reef’s Lizard Island and wasn’t found until the next day

Ireland acts as if the good times will last forever

Television: At no point is Hector in danger of doing anything original or surprising (the odd fusillade about politicians aside)

The more people believe property prices can only rise, the more recklessly they behave

Irish Times readers outside the State share their views on being excluded from voting in the presidential election

‘Nobody pays attention to how naked everybody is. Being Irish, I’m wearing jeans’

Tens of thousands of Irish people need to access workplace pension funds on their return from two-year working holidays

The children’s author, who grew up Catholic in Belfast, on complicated identities and how his marriage to a Protestant might have been trickier 10 years earlier

Big changes in the US mean educated and professional workers must confront what working-class migrants have long endured

Case relates to seizure of 564kg of methamphetamine in Cork in February 2024

An Australian state is planning a new hybrid work law despite an angry business outcry

The TV presenter on breaking into radio in her 20s, buying her first home, and her new show The Assembly

Governments and tech firms closely watching effort to block use of social media by those younger than 16

For the majority of the year, Australian magpies are good neighbours - in September and October, things change

Move comes as Israel intensifies military action in Gaza and expansion of settlements in occupied West Bank

Head of company’s Australian division Geraldine Slattery likely to succeed Mike Henry

Ireland must prepare to adapt to Rugby Championship’s rapid changes in attacking tactics or risk being left behind

It is the smallest of the Australian states, with a population of just under 600,000

High Court dispute centred on meeting at billionaire John Magnier’s home in August 2023

Many Irish emigrants feel drawn to home. We need to give them more reasons to return

Woman killed three elderly relatives of her estranged husband with a meal containing poisonous fungi

Surfer’s body found floating in sea after suffering ‘catastrophic injuries’

Sr Angela Mary Doyle, from Co Clare, went to Australia in 1947 where she worked in healthcare and fought to help men affected by Aids in the 1980s

Number arriving in Ireland over 12 months falls to 125,300, CSO figures show

Manhunt continues in Australian bush for 'heavily armed' suspect after two officers shot dead

When you choose to move abroad, you accept the reality that life at home moves on without you

Clare Roche wins prize, with Martha Sprackland second and Shelley Hastings third

Large rise in people from US moving to Ireland in year to April has also drawn some attention

Homes, schools, synagogues and vehicles have been targets by antisemitic vandalism and arson since Israel began its war in Gaza in late 2023

Incident in Porepunkah, 300km northeast of Melbourne, reportedly happened while warrant for historical sex abuse allegations being served

Barrister for Erin Patterson says his client’s ‘notorious’ reputation would make prison more onerous for her than the average offender

Kerry man Paul Clifford moved to Melbourne two years ago and works in PR

Grandad would tell me to come home soon because he didn’t ‘have long left’. It worked. I went home to Sydney every year

More than 30,000 Irish citizens returned to Ireland in the year to April 2024. Four recent returnees share their experiences of coming home

Encounter with Springboks at Ellis Park, Johannesburg, will be daunting task for Joe Schmidt’s squad