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Looking for something that will play all format DVDs and also allow me to record program from my Sky+ box. Do I need one of the ones with Hard Drive? Any recommendations?

Buying some furniture from friend in UK. Bed, mattress,table,couch etc. Wondering if anyone has any contact details of removal firms or shipping agents who would bring it to Ireland for me? Any idea of cost?

Booked flight for 4 with ryanair. Total came to 158 euros. To avoid 40 euros credit card charge paid through entropay. Ended up costing 179 euros. Not sure it makes a whole lot of difference if only 2 or 3 people. You get caught in unfavourable exchange rates with Ryanair and entropay. If living...

Friend of mine back from a weeks holidays this morning and told that employer was suspending him without pay for 1 month! Working in horse stud and employer was not happy with way things were while he was away. Can you do this? Any advice for him? I'm sure it is not legal.

Friend of mine back from a weeks holidays this morning and told that employer was suspending him without pay for 1 month! Working in horse stud and employer was not happy with way things were while he was away. Can you do this? Any advice for him?

Get solicitor invovled and I'm sure he will tell the two of you to get independent engineer to mark site on land and on folio map. Doing that at moment myself! Have to get vendor and purchaser solicitor involved. Do not try to skimp on costs as your solicitor will advise you about rights of way...

Sister in law self-employed. Business going down tubes. Now she discovers she is pregnant and due in April. Single and living in rented accomodation. How does she find out what welfare benefits she is entitled to?

Offer 230k and see what happens. Put a time limit, say 2 weeks on your offer. Say you are looking at a number of similar properties.

Voodoo I know exactly where you are coming from. My own situation is we have 14 acres of land but needed an extra 1/2 acre with about 80m of road frontage to get planning permission for entrance as we did not have adequate sight distances. Approached my friendly local farmer a couple of years...

Do not have to let banks go burst. Can nationalise them or "pre-privatise" if that sounds better. "pre-privatise" might sit better with the "haircut" and "nama will wash its face" people. All stiglitz said was that shareholders should be wiped out and that bondholders would receive equity in a...

Just an aside. I bought some Bank of Ireland shares 11 months ago. Since then they have had to write down billions of losses and would be bankrupt only for NAMA. Today my shares are worth 30% more than I paid for them. How can this be fair? NAMA is a transfer of wealth from the taxpayer to bank...

If anyone did not see Mark Little's interview with Prof. Joseph Stiglitz on Prime Time tonight I would urge them to view it on the RTE player. He confirms what most of us already know about NAMA, that it is a bailout for bank, shareholders and bondholders. This guy has a Nobel Prize in economics...

Wife minds our 2 young pre-school children at moment. Gave up secretarial job a few years ago as wage would not pay for childminder. Thinking about undertaking further training to help rejoin workforce in a few years when things pick up. Any ideas of courses/qualifications which would increase...

Got car serviced at dealer the other day. Told me I would have to bring it back as brake pads worn. Quoted me 320 euros for front and rear pads including labour. Think this is expensive! any reliable site you could buy similar pads online. I could get mechanic down road to put them in.

Have 400k fixed term life insurance which expires in 23 years. Want to get 500k/25 year mortgage and bank are telling me that I will have to get another policy with them. Is there any way of extending term of my existing policy to 25 years and increasing amount to 500k. 41 years of age so will...

Travelling to NYC from Dublin with Delta in 2 weeks. Plane at 09.35. How early would I need to be at airport? Do you pre-clear immigration in Dublin ao do you have to go through it on JFK side?

Travelling to US in a few weeks. Want to go to concert there. Ticketmaster US site will only let me bid on tickets if I have a US credit card billing address. Is there any way of getting a US billing address. Sure I saw something on a forum a while back about people buying online from states and...

Had to have emergency root canal done while on holidays in portugal last week (unbearable pain in one of my big Molars). In Quinta Do Lago which is most expensive area of Algarve. Dentist and Nurse came in specially on Saturday and opened clinic. Did it all in one go. Took about 2 hours. Cost...

Definitely a flash like a camera flash. Knew it was a gatso van by the way it was parked.

Hi Nearly certain I was photographed by Garda Gatso Van on the Naas road yesterday. Definitely saw flash. I was under speed limit at time. Is it still possible to get flashed and be under?