Fine Gael’s promise to rescue mortgage holders in negative equity by extending more mortgage interest relief to them should make...
Property
The big money questions for reluctant canvassers
The big money questions for reluctant canvassers
I’m very lucky that I live on a busy street on Inner City Dublin. And I’m blessed with good and friendly neighbours, a lot of...
Politicians should prepare for Universal Social Charge anger
Politicians should prepare for Universal Social Charge anger
Here’s something to ask the next politician who comes seeking your vote in the upcoming general election: what are they going to...
Few exempt from increased austerity
Few exempt from increased austerity
Every year comes with a new set of big money issues or trends. Well, 2011 is no different except that our ongoing debt problem...
Act now to cut your health cover costs
Act now to cut your health cover costs
Is the private health insurance industry model ‘broken’, as the VHI boss Jimmy Tolan has suggested? Have older people been...
What a year: 2010 in review
What a year: 2010 in review
I doubt that too many people are going to miss the year 2010 – at least not from a financial perspective. Yet we’ve all come...
Make up Budget shortfall with price comparisons
Make up Budget shortfall with price comparisons
I suspect that it will take some time before the effects of Budget 2011 sink in. I expect the vast majority of us will only...
Is this the first Budget of 2011 or the endgame?
Is this the first Budget of 2011 or the endgame?
The first Great Recession Budget for 2011 has just been presented but too late for this column’s deadline. However, with an...
Tax Blitz begins in 2011
Tax Blitz begins in 2011
Next week we will all know the tax and social welfare details that were included in last week’s four year National Recovery...
Debt group offers a lifeline – of sorts – to homeowners
Debt group offers a lifeline – of sorts – to homeowners
The arrival of the IMF last week overshadowed another piece of important news that involves ordinary people, for once: hard...
Can we escape the debt at the heart of our crisis?
Can we escape the debt at the heart of our crisis?
How can the ordinary person make any sense of what is happening to this country when the so-called experts – the economists,...
Don’t avoid your debts; confront them with MABS’ help
Don’t avoid your debts; confront them with MABS’ help
One of the most worrying experiences for an ordinary law abiding citizen is to be summoned before a court of law, even if it is...
