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Hi, I am looking to invest on behalf of my 3 children. We only have a relatively small amount to invest - a few thousand (for each child) with a few hundred arriving from the UK each year for each child, so we just want to buy into a low cost fund add to it once a year and leave it there for 10...

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there are several issues with paying private healthcare. Technically you are only paying for the size of the room (ward vs private or semi private room) and/or being treated in a private hospital. In theory you are not paying to jump the queue ahead of public patients with a similar need. In...

Its a common comment that UK friends have, looking out at TCD front gate and BoI, why is it so pedestrian unfriendly - they say the same thing about picadilly circus in london. another point. if the luas link goes ahead (1 in 3 isnt it?) some traffic will have to move anyway. anon473

There is an interesting report originating from the UK home office which gives a breakdown of child abductions from a few years ago. 68 succesful stranger child abductions in the UK in 2002-2003 was more than i expected (and yet less than my work colleagues thought!) sadly nationmaster.com...

I remember reading last year that the UK was going to axe its census after this one http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/7882774/National-census-to-be-axed-after-200-years.html aiming to get the information from "credit reference agencies, local councils and royal mail" There is also a...

timetable of events Ah...actually found this just now. [broken link removed] anon473

link to Irish times article I kept a link to this article because I had heard nothing about it. (and have always been interested in the canals). [broken link removed] It suggests that there is a summer of festivities culminating in the opening on september 30th. anon473

its called a Martingale system and has been around for a long time... Wikipedia has a good mathematical description of it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_%28betting_system%29 anon473

I went to a talk by an official in the CER (commission for elec reg) last year and he suggested that Ireland would have its own Nuclear Power station within the next 20 years but that it would be situated in Wales. His opinion was that building our own would be prohibitively difficult due to the...

Youtube has quite a few of their sketches (i know its not DVD) but its a good reminder. anon473

I imagine that is their way of trying to stop under age gambling (18 for buying lotto tickets) anon473

It also depends on the goods. There has been a long running battle over WEEE charges which has meant that electrical goods werent being shipped here from the UK. I had read somewhere that it has been (at least partially) settled but that not all companies agree. anon473

i like mitchell and webbs parody of sky sports advertising http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF_uOgyBK1c Bill Baileys Starsky and Hutch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_HyS94O2h0 or Eddie Izzard's Death Star canteen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp69rg6Hdlo and no I dont spend all my time...

Came across this website dedicated to the conspiracy theory question http://www.ismichaeljacksonstillalive.com/ anon473

Seems reasonable. her 5 main increases include health insurance which is very different here. (the others would all be applicable). It would be interesting to see how health insurance costs have changed here (inflation adjusted and as a percentage of income) I liked her comment about parents...

I cant emphasise how important this is. Everything takes time (from searching through the self serve to collecting the stuff from the full serve. Even walking through the shop takes an age and since the delivery to Ireland is via a 3rd party, you have to go through a separate queue. None of the...

4 main areas of redevelopment likely in the phibs area 1....The old Smurfit factory site on St Mobhi Road (its been knocked so some work has been going on) 2....Phibsborough centre redevelopment. As previous poster said, this has been held up for a while. 3....Mountjoy Prison. All linked in with...

We are going with Turnwood nr Drogheda. They cut the glass from an MDF template so then can cut out holes for elec sockets etc.(B&Q dont do this) anon473

it does make sense but it also throws up more questions! Who is the ECB actually lending money to? Who is paying that headline interest rate? and what does the ECB actually do with the money it gets in? The reason why i originally posted this in this forum was that i was wondering what happens...