Could it be there is an election in the offing? It is being reported that young workers seeking a home in our major cities will have 30pc of their rent paid by the State in a scheme aimed at allowing them live close to where they work. The Government is to pilot an...
Thousands of Irish minor shareholders in Vodafone will be given the chance to offload their holdings. These shares came about mainly from the sale of Eircell by Telecom Éireann to Vodafone in May 2001 in a move that gave the UK operator its first presence in the Irish...
The Millionaire Next Door is a book by Thomas Stanley and William Danko and published in 2013 but relevant today. They are professors in Albany University NY, who devoted their careers to studying the habits of self-made millionaires. These are people who became...
New figures from the Irish lenders show that 3,813 new buyers took out a mortgage for the three months ending last December. This was 220 fewer mortgages than in the same quarter in 2014. It was the first time there has been a fall off in the number of first-time...
Irish Daily Star column 2nd February 2016 Q – I have heard you talk on radio about prioritising when it comes to expenditure – cancel the least important. We are at that stage now with 2 children under the age of 3 and one “bread-winner” and is it now time to drop...
The changes for bin charge calculations were announced late in 2014 as part of a review of national waste policy. The pay-by-weight proposal is designed to increase recycling rates and reduce the amount of waste being sent to landfill, but there are concerns that it...
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