There are two State Pension Systems, the Social Insurance System and the Social Assistance System, so you should normally qualify under...

At the Central Bank conference on distressed property markets yesterday there was an excellent line up of speakers, the event was launc...

The list of exempted properties is in the new property tax amendment to the 2013 Finance Bill. Charities, properties held in trust, an...

I played around with some figures to compare the cost of the old scheme versus the new one. To do this I put everything into today' mon...

I wrote a chapter in a book called 'What if Ireland Defaults' on possible effects on the mortgage market, I was kind of proud of it unt...

I received a lovely letter (made for enjoyable reading) from Pronsias McAveleigh of Bloom Parade in Dublin. He kindly started out by re...

Click here to hear our personal finance slot on Sunshine 106.8fm which is on every Tuesday evening at 18:30. This week we looked at th...

While mortgage lending in the UK is not exactly of Irish interest, it is worth looking at to see the challenges that our nearest neighb...

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