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I approached Donal O’Donovan’s report on the numbers getting caught paying the top tax rate on part of their income with trepidation given the headline (‘Over one million workers pay top rate of PAYE, not just the high earners’, Irish Independent, September 23).
A few weeks ago, hundreds of businesspeople gathered in Belfast for a trade summit. They included potential investors from the US, Europe and the Middle East, and the conference was hosted by Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris.
Thousands of health workers in Northern Ireland including paramedics, nurses, midwives and physiotherapists will stage strike action on Thursday and Friday.
Health workers will be striking at the South West Acute Hosptial on Thursday and Friday this week.
Fifteen applications have been lodged with the High Court in Belfast to challenge the British government's controversial legacy legislation after it became law.