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A friend of mine has her phone set to withhold her number as standard, but I got her to enter my number in her contacts with the 'reveal' code input before my number, so her details are automatically displayed when she rings me. Works well. For a mobile: If number is routinely displayed, the...

I'd be more upset that the Baltimore lifeboat rescued Charlie Haughey when his yacht sank off Mizen Head in 1985. :)

It's an INVESTMENT property, not a home. It needs to be examined in that light. You can't afford the ongoing costs (mortgage). These ongoing costs are going to increase: new residential charge of €200, added to the NPPR charge which will almost certainly rise; possible interest rate increases...

Can anyone recommend a certified contractor for removal and disposal of corrugated asbestos-concrete sheets from a shed roof in Dublin? Any info on recent prices for similar jobs would be great too! Thanks.

That reminds me of this (very) short story by Somerset Maugham: [broken link removed].

Does it need to be a forest? The Huguenot cemetery on Merrion Row (just down from the Gresham Hotel) seemed to have loads of bluebell drifts when I passed by there earlier today. Edited: This photo seems to have been taken around this time last year by a tourist. The colour's a bit washed out...

My plan is to use the DKB visa card instead of my regular Irish one for all credit card transactions, to give the DKB card some activity. I'll run it in parallel with my Irish visa for a while, but if there are no problems I see no reason not to then cancel my Irish one, saving the stamp duty.

From today's Irish Times:

Thanks DublinTexas. Just see that on the last few pages now. (I'd only looked at the first few pages in German when I posted - should have waited!)

Just looking through the forms at the moment. Any recommendations for someone to get them witnessed/notarised? I'm anticipating problems finding someone willing to put their signature to a document written in German without a lot of extra expense! Thanks.

Great - thanks DublinTexas.

Can anyone who has opened an account with DKB (Godfather? DublinTexas? Chewchew?) indicate if electronic transfers can be made to another bank account from the Visa account? I'm contemplating joining DKB and it seems from what I've read that the Visa account would be basically used as the...

Hi farmerette, Sorry - I wasn't clear in my previous post - I was trying to clarify what Jim2007 had said, not you. I understand your original point, but it seemed to me from Jim2007's response to you that he feels Irish deposits in German banks mightn't be any safer from an Irish currency...

You think that if Ireland withdraws from the euro, a bank in Germany would seek to identify all accounts with Irish-resident depositors, and selectively convert them to an punt nua - even though the German currency remains the euro? Or am I misinterpreting you? I don't see how that would work...

Hi dave, Just noticed you mentioned a 6% booster a/c. Can you tell me what account this is please, as there's nowhere near this rate on the 'savings' part of the batch of accounts that was opened in my 'banking relationship' (current + savings + trading accounts). Thanks.

I photocopied both the cover and the inside, and that worked fine.

Hi DMcL1971. Sorry I didn't see this until now. Yes, that is exactly what I ended up having to do. Daft. (And the interest rate on the demand deposit a/c is currently zero!)

Yes - I rang Open24 again and explained what was going on, but the girl told me it was because my account types (a 21 day regular saver and the new online regular saver) didn't permit transfers to third party accounts. I made the point that there was no other way of getting money out of the...

Thanks Knuttell. That's the same message I was getting. Seems BoI's not the only bank running into problems with their online interface. However, the problem with the online regular saver is that no in-branch transactions are permitted. So unless I can get it to recognise another account to...

Thanks Knuttell. So maybe it's a problem with open24 in general, rather than that a/c? Has anyone successfully set up an external (non-pTSB) account on open24 in the last couple of days? Has anyone who did it successfully in the past got a moment to try adding one now?