
Bram Stoker Festival 2026: free events, tickets and practical guide
The best free and ticketed events at Dublin’s Bram Stoker Festival, 23–26 October 2026, with prices, booking dates, accessibility and transport.
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The best free and ticketed events at Dublin’s Bram Stoker Festival, 23–26 October 2026, with prices, booking dates, accessibility and transport.

Italy is checking air and sea arrivals from Spain until 16 October, while Spain’s reciprocal checks run until 7 October. Here are the documents travellers need.

British Columbia invited 10 Base entrepreneurs and fewer than five Regional candidates on 22 September. Both streams had a 119 cut-off.

China ended its long-standing tax exemption for dividends paid by foreign-invested enterprises to foreign individuals on 1 September 2026. The domestic statutory rate is now 20%, with new withholding and filing duties.

Spain’s Congress rejected two emergency housing decrees on 2 October. Here is what renters and landlords should not assume changed.

France has started collecting outstanding 2025 income-tax balances. Check the €300 threshold, remaining debit dates, bank details and fraud warning.

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