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Due to ill health I have about 700 Irish credits emassed over the years....

At least 260 fully paid PRSI - can they include U.K. fully paid contribs?

Is it possible to count U.K. contributions towards your Irish ones, to make up for a small shortfall (8 contribs), in order to qualify for a Irish Old Age Contributory Pension, rather than a pro rata one? Otherwise, is it possible to pay some voluntary contributions on retirement to try and make...

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Okay, will check with them. Thanks for info.

As I am 8 contributions short of the 260 contributions rule - can I take into account some of my U.K. contributions (26 years) in order to make some voluntary contributions towards a Irish contributory old age pension? I want to avoid getting a pro rata pension if I can. Thanks.

Re: Personal financial retrenchment I have been doing all this entrenching for the past 2 years! Gave up smoking 6 years ago, hardly ever drink. Whats left??

Will any of these internet radio work with linux (Ubuntu)? Any updates on radios please. Thanks, Anna

Well... in Spain recently . Had a lovely chinese 3-course meal with a bottle of wine and sitting outside enjoying what sun there was and the cost was euro6.75 each! Had some very good spanish 3-course menu del dias with a full bottle of wine for euro8 each. This was in the Valencia region of Spain.

Thanks for quick reply.

What exchange rate do you use when calculating sterling income for tax year 2007. Is there a link on the revenue site? Thanks, Anna

What are the best rates of interest (and banks) for a deposit account held in sterling (25K) here in the south? about 25k. Thanks

It is certainly worth your while to pay the voluntary contributions towards an increased U.K. pension. There are some very active threads on this topic over on moneysaving.com which you should read. I have started paying an additional 10 years contribs ahead of my retirement date next year.

p.s hope all is well after your catastrophie.

Success at last - yellow thingy was connected to coaxil output digital - i changed it to video output to t.v. input. It pays to read the instructions carefully... Thanks for your patience, pat.

Replacement player connected. insert dvd - sound plays - but screen just wavy lines.... DVD player shows a revolving circle and playback time....

We are going to try it with a scart and then return to Aldi. Thanks Pat.

Several DVDs tried - loading messge/clicking sound. set it to AV.. p.s These have all beeen old DVDs (freebies) as this is our first DVD player!

No scart lead hdmi cable between tv and dvd DVD player does not say playing , just loading. Disc is DVD video. On tv channnel info it says e.g. bbc1 PAL1 Nicam stereo.

Connection question: 32" LCD TV Tevion (from Aldi) to Tevion hdmi DVD player. TV working fine but DVD player says loading but nothing happens. When I press input/av - I get a blue screen which says no signal. Complete newbie at this -as I am replacing a very old t.v. so simple answer needed. Do...