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Hi, Hoping to travel during midterm with my husband and 12 year old daughter to central london. Any recommendations for a centrally located hotel that doesn't cost the earth. Thanks in Advance. Angela59:)

Hi, currently with vodafone for broadband and landline costs E45 per month but generally runs to E50 and mobile with tesco mobile sim only unlimited calls and texts costs E35 have my own basic phone. Out of contract with vodafone and am considering switching to eircom for the following...

Hi, My husband is self employed. We don't have any TRS on our mortgage, is it possible to offset any interest we paid on mortgage when doing a tax return. Angela59

Hi all, I want to zone or split the central heating system we have so that we are either heating upstairs or downstairs but not both at the same time - we have oil fired central heating which is mainly backup we have a stove with backboiler which heats rads, house is 19 years old. The hot...

Hi all, My daughter is looking for a kindle keyboard for her birthday, I have looked on Amazon and £149.99 sterling which converts to E190, at the moment Argos are selling them for E167 - I checked with Dixons Travel Dublin Airport, I know someone travelling soon and it is E164. Anyone heard...

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Hi, I am with Vodafone Simply billpay - costs E20,33 per month for 100 mins + 100 free texts. Having just gone through bills for the last year - the cost is averaging out at E49.19 per month. Over the last 7 months my phone usage is 272 minutes per month for mobile calls, don't text very...

My husband and I purchased a second property (holiday home) out of equity which we released from our main residence - we did this back 2005. We have just recently sold that property, it wasn't an option to hold on to it - if we rented it -the rent wouldn't have covered the mortgage. The property...

Hi, Anyone spot this yesterday - http://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/latest-news/savers-to-lose-out-as-banks-cut-high-rates-for-deposits-3122946.html. Hopefully this will be good news to PTSB variable mortgage holders - whenever it will happen. Angela59

Hi all, Has anyone ever bought anything off [broken link removed]? Just had a look at dishwashers on their website, they seem cheap, I would be grateful if anyone has any experience of using this company. TIA Angela59

Hi All My husband and I purchased a second home in Spain back in 2005. We took out the mortgage with PTSB on our main residence we had a very small mortgage on our main residence and a lot of equity built up at the time. The purchase wasn't for investment it was for use as a holiday home and...

My husband's tax credit on wage slip is weekly E31.73, he is a director in the company, my tax credit is E31.73 weekly, yearly this is E3300 - I work part-time in same company -we are married with two children. When I do a tax calc on for example deloitte touch tax calculator it is showing that...

Hi all, Would it be worth our while for all the PTSB customers who are currently on AAM to write to Matthew Elderfield, laying out their story, what rate they are on, if and when they had to restructure. Try and put some pressure on him as the financial regulator to get PTSB to reduce their...

Hi, I booked a house in West of Ireland through Owners Direct. We had our two children and a very elderly parent, arrived down last Saturday, there was a terrible stale smell of damp and stale water in the house, fridge was not clean and oven was filthy, grill pan full of grease - I had to...

Hi, The Deferred Interest Scheme was announced last November 2010, here is the link http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1117/arrears-business.html. In March PTSB can't find the link now announced this would be up and running by June of this year. I phoned my local branch, they said hadn't heard...

Hi, I am on rural night-saver electricity and am on Direct Debit with Bord Gais. I have low wattage lights, dishwash, clothes wash, tumble dryer on at night as is immersion - the kWh we use at night not a problem but even this time of year I'm finding the use of kWh in day still high and...

Hi all, Is it possible to fix an interest only tracker mortage? Angela59

Hi all, This is a bit of a unusual one but here it goes. An elderly relative of mine who has been retired for some time - 23 years has never claimed for his contributory pension. He was in full time employment until he retired at the age of 65 - he was a civil servant and I presume paying...

Hi all, Anyone who is familar with shopping up north know where I could purchase a Brushcutter/garden strimmer? Thanks in Advance Angela59

Hi all, Am bringing my kids up to Newgrange Saturday and if it is not too far from Newry am thinking of doing stocking up in Sainsburys. Is it still as manic as what people said it was around Christmas or has it calmed down at all? Or should I risk life and limb for the bargains to be had?:D...