BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR Finance Minister Simon Harris is making the reduction of taxes on investment income a central pillar of his plan to encourage ordinary people to shift their savings from low-yield bank and credit union deposits into the Stock Market. An internal Department of Finance memo outlines his proposed savings and investment …

AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON Covering Andrew, Duke of York, and his marriage to Sarah Ferguson in Westminster Abbey I couldn’t have imagined how things would turn out. Yet 40 years later there was Andrew splashed across front pages on February 19, his 66thbirthday, prone in the back of a police car, following …

THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS My mother was of that era when a woman in Ireland wed and had children she had to give up her job in any State or semi-State body. Her generation were defined by having babies and looking after “domestic chores”. She was my stay-at-home parent and did …

CHOICES SHAPE YOUR FUTURE By Judith Ashton Last year I met two American women in their hire car, looking for directions. I was in my front garden and we got chatting. Something compelled me to invite them in for a cuppa and before they were out of the car and in the front door we …

BY CLAIR WHITTY Collagen is the most abundant protein in the body, providing structure and strength to skin, joints, bones, hair, nails and connective tissue. While we naturally begin to lose collagen from our mid-twenties onwards, the decline becomes far more noticeable for women during perimenopause and menopause. Oestrogen plays a key role in collagen …