Switching mortgage provider is a pain in the neck, so banks use cash bonuses to tempt people to move. If you're willing to take on the admin, the bonuses sum to thousands.
There are good reasons to think inflation will settle back down. The important thing for Ireland is not to bake in permanently higher costs, according to Patrick Honohan, the former governor of the Central Bank.
The big miss for employers who dismiss the candidates over 50 on age grounds alone is experience. A lot of older candidates can “see around corners” as they are likely to have had relevant experiences in the past.
City golf courses are a sinful waste of space. By building on the centrally-located Dublin courses, we could accommodate 250,000 and make a dent in the housing crisis.
In this podcast, Paul Flynn and Marc Ó Sé look to the All Ireland championship and ask how Kerry will cope with the pressure that comes with being favourites in a championship like no other.
In a special French election podcast, Thomas Hubert and Stephen Carroll discuss the reasons behind the rise of Marine Le Pen, as well as Emmanuel Macron's culpability.
We can no longer outsource governance and hard choices to Europe, energy to Russia, and security to the US. Whether we figure out what to do with ourselves in the right time scale is another matter.
EU ministers have again failed to agree on how to implement the global OECD deal on multinational taxation. The whole project could still be derailed, or at least delayed – and some corporations continue to jump into the gap in the meantime.
The new auto-enrol pension scheme solves two problems: It nudges people to make the right choice with their pension plan, and it rewards them with low costs.
What do JP McManus, John Magnier, Bill Gates and the British Royal family all have in common? Apart from being billionaires, they are all large landowners, quietly going under the radar to acquire massive amounts of global farmland.
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