EARLY PENSION WITHDRAWAL REQUEST Q. I have been made redundant after only 12 years’ service ( now 36 ) but am going straight into similar employment. I leave a pension worth € 75,000. Can I release any of this money now, do I have to wait til age 65 to claim it and...
Comedian W C Fields (died 1946) was not thinking of child costs when asked how he liked children “preferably boiled” though he did raise two himself. It is estimated that the actual current cost of raising a child from birth until completion of their 3rd...
The Government has launched a scheme to give funding to people at risk of having their homes repossessed so that they can seek the services of personal insolvency experts. Around €15m is being spent on the service, to be known as Abhaile – the Irish for home. It...
TRACKER MORTGAGE Q – We have a € 235,000 tracker mortgage on our home which ends in 18 years. Our lender and competitors have recently announced really good fixed rates, should we fix now. The 3 year fixed rate is 2.99% ? My mother also left me € 45,000 in her...
Ever wondered where the term “money” came from ? Mark Twain once said the lack of money is the root of all evil…St Paul described it in a different way… the love of money is the root of all evil… It has evolved from a simple bartering mechanism to the...
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