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I have a query re mortgage interest relief. Myself and my wife bought originally in 2005, we sold up in 2007 and have been renting ever since. What is our status as regards mortgage interest relief? We are not first time buyers, but as we only received approximately 2 yrs worth of relief at...

My bad, 290K after discussing with herself who knows all!! Presumably the same two you are talking about. I also mentioned the halting site (which again she was well aware of), my wife knows a few people who live beside it and they don't have any particular concerns. As I say, it is pretty...

Lived both sides of it over the past 5/6 years and never knew it was there tbh. It wouldn't influence me in any way, but I'm not right beside it. I think that's where the available 3 bed semis are at present. The houses on that side are a bit smaller, but as good a buy in terms of vicinity...

Really?? I live very close to the estate (I'm guessing it's the same estate anyway) and I've never noticed that. I've only been there 2 yrs though, so maybe I just haven't explored it properly!! In answer to the other questions, the national schools nearby are good. Estates are generally...

I have been looking at this quite a bit over the past while, namely because I have a lot of dollar expenditure coming up - from what I can glean from various internet musings ranging from spread bettors, political buffs and various other analysts on my daily podcasts, the dollar has strengthened...

I mentioned wages, VAT is indeed higher here, but what govt charges specifically are you referring to? As for the data on profit margins, I had a quick look and can't see anything so I'll presume that the lot of you are correct and that such data isn't released, now stop ganging up on me, and...

Corportation tax is lower, you have no idea whether or not rent is more expensive (on a store by store basis, we can't tell whether or not subsidies are being granted by developers to large prestige anchor tenants, but one would presume that they are), yes, average wages in Ireland are higher...

1.9tdi, long journeys, computer says 59mpg - some reasonably hard motorway driving, around town - circa 38/39mpg

Indeed my gripe is with the stupidity of the labelling, if they're prepared to open stores here, why not go the extra millimiter and produce labels specifically for this market? As for comparing convenience stores and supermarkets, I acknowledged that they were different and that one expects...

My local Spar charged me €2.25 for 227g of Dairygold butter recently, as opposed to the €2.15 I would have had to pay for 454g of same in Dunnes (another 1/2 mile away). I had previously made a point of trying to support it occasionally, and would always buy my lotto and newspapers etc there...

It's not going to happen I imagine, their best bet is to try a bar that has sky from a uk receiver (most english/irish/aussie) bars in italy do this, then if they want to offer to pay the fee to subscribe to setanta for the game - it's still unlikely as many people will be in the bars to watch...

Good thinking, but afaik the offer applies to flights taken from dublin, must go check the details - I think the only thing to do is to come clean when booking the flights (as you have ring up) and ask if this is allowable - of course you do run the risk of getting erroneous info, and obviously...

Yeah, that was my worry and if I don't think I'll be in a position to travel the day earlier, hmmm....

Hi all, I have an MBNA creditcard through ryanair that allows allocates free flights to selected destinations when certain conditions have satisfied. As a result, I have 2 return flights to use prior to christmas and as I happens, I have to travel to Barcelona, and surprisingly Barcelona Reus...

Castlethorn have a very good reputation afaik within the industry.

What's the story in the US re car insurance, do we have to purchase from the car supplier? My brother's had an experience where he had to pay pretty much the same as he already been quoted for hire again for insurance for a 2 week trip.

i found the dollar number to generally equate with the euro number, thus a significant saving before import duties.

My american relatives told me that Best Buy is the best value for electronics, there's one on 5th avenue with another electrical store beside it, both of them are pretty good (could be circuit world or something). Re Woodbury Commons, I didn't enjoy the experience, but there is undoubtedly value...

I'll second that, we stayed in the Eastgate afffinia, great location - not exactly family oriented, but has all the suites with tv's, pay movies etc - very reasonably priced compared to most.

Just to update, we stayed in a one bedroom suite in The Affinia Eastgate Tower on 38th and 3rd. We had a bedroom (2 double beds), separate living room, 2 tv's, fridge, cooker, microwave etc. Pay movies on the TV and wifi internet access at $40 per week. We were there for 10 nights and our final...