The Court of Criminal Appeal has set aside a six-year sentence imposed on a Dublin businessman for failing to pay €1.6m in garlic import duty. However, Paul Begley from Rathcoole in Dublin remains in custody until next month, pending further submissions on an alternative sentence. The appeal court ruled the sentence imposed last March was not...Read More

THE importance of providing information to older people to ensure they are claiming and in receipt of their entitlements cannot be over-emphasised. That is according to Paul Woulfe, manager with the countywide Citizens’ Information Service, at the launch of a new information booklet for older people. “This publication, which has been updated to take into...Read More

A FORMER businessman’s “warring family” were exposed as he gave evidence against his brother and lifelong friend alleging that the three of them forged a bachelor’s will. Charlie O’Leary spent two-and-a-half days in the witness box at Wexford Circuit Court while his brother, William O’Leary, and once close friend, Noel Hayes, looked on. Noel Hayes,...Read More

Taxpayers have a little more time when it comes to submitting their Capital Gains Tax (CGT) assessments for 2012. By calculating any gains made in the current year, there is still time to reduce your tax bill by availing of valuable CGT reliefs or even selling assets which, if their sale were to generate tax...Read More

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PENSIONERS, parents and homeowners are targeted in a stinging new report by the IMF. The international monetary watchdog recommends a host of new taxes and cutbacks which would hurt ordinary households in the pocket. But Finance Minister Michael Noonan said he would not follow their recommendation to impose a penal property tax. Mr Noonan, who...Read More

TWO men were arrested yesterday as they tried to make their way to a safe house after a criminal was shot five times in the head at his step-brother’s wedding. Robert Sheehan (21) was in a critical condition last night after a gunman repeatedly shot him early yesterday morning as he smoked a cigarette outside...Read More

SACKED haulage workers at the tax debt-ridden company Target Express have vowed to continue a sit-in at depots until they get unpaid wages. Seamus McBrien, the chief executive, claimed he was forced to cease trading after Revenue Commissioners froze its accounts and refused to strike a deal on money owed. It is understood he is...Read More

FIONA REDDAN The ‘mumpreneur’ phenomenon evolved as a way for women to combine a fulfilling family life with a career – and now Enterprise Ireland wants to get these innovators to think about expanding their businesses WHEN LULU O’Sullivan was setting up her online gifts company GiftsDirect.com some 23 years ago, the term “mumpreneur” hadn’t...Read More

STEPHEN COLLINS Dominating views in an ‘Irish Times’ poll include images of cows, grass, and friendly people THE MAJORITY of Germans view Ireland through green-tinted spectacles with images of beautiful countryside, farm animals and wet weather predominating, according to the findings of the poll conducted by The Irish Times in both countries. What is striking...Read More