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Mannix Flynn’s career path got off to an appropriately off-beat start – delivering false teeth. Since then he has been a playwright,...

Stand-up comedian and author Colm O’Regan is the author of the best selling Irish Mammies books, so he should know something about...

Killing Eve and Pirates of the Caribbean actress Carmen Montero loved living in Ireland for several years.   She has worked on film with...

We learned a lot about our relationship with food during the Covid-19 lockdowns. Deprived of many products during the early stages of the...

Most people would be lucky to have one very well-paid career in their lives. Former Northern Irish soccer international Paul McVeigh has...

When Oisin Hanrahan couldn’t find a cleaner for his ‘messy’ Boston student apartment, little did he know that solving this problem would...

People don’t like to think about tax. It’s complicated, involves numbers (ugh!) and usually ends up with us losing money. But what if the...

Can credit unions beat the banks to provide the best loan deals? We put all lenders to the test after a reader asked us about the best...

Ballybunion-born actor Richard Wall shot to national prominence on the Winning Streak lottery gameshow for sporting a fulsome horseshoe...

It could be you….if you wait 51,442 years We crunch the numbers on our national obsession of 'doing the Lotto' and show how to tweak the...

It’s hard to keep up with the breakneck pace of growth at digital bank Revolut. Recent reports of a tripling of Revolut’s global customer...

Why does practically everyone else in Europe pay less for their mortgages than us? The Finns pay nearly five times less – just €820 a...

With fear and confusion reigning through most of the year over whether we can or should go out to the pub, stadium or cinema, it might be...

This week Irish mortgage rates dipped below 2% for the first time in history. But who qualifies for this tasty 1.95% mortgage rate…and...

Younger people who flout Covid 19 rules have been warned to consider the potential cost of the disease to their wealth – as well as their...

“Ah sure at least we got our Christmas bonus.” That’s been the reaction to the Budget from some pensioners and welfare recipients to the...

Remember when having a mobile phone the size of a large brick was a major status symbol? That was the 1990s when only the rich and famous...

Energy bills went up yet again from October 1. Yet, despite making savings by doing so, fewer people are shopping around for energy...

Imagine there was a car which ran on free fuel. It costs €2,000 a year less to run, cuts insurance bills by 20% and maintenance costs by...

Two sneaky stealth taxes are behind the 10% rise in health cover this year - with much worse to come. Up to last year policy prices had...

“All professions are conspiracies against the layman.” – George Bernard Shaw George was right. But that was back in the early 20th...

Most of us make some sort of spiritual provision for the next world through religion. Yet relatively few take any practical steps about...

We’ve all heard them – the personal finance maxims many people rely on to make crucial financial decisions. Buy don't rent. Always...

How an insidious and labyrinthine allowances system hides true pay in public sector Flann O’Brien’s black comic masterpiece The Third...