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Border shopping: the price is right
FOR certain folk, the long-awaited opening of IKEA in Ballymun may have removed the only incentive to take a shopping trip across the border, but it's clear that the North remains a mecca for many shoppers in the Republic.
Healthcare: targeted cover
SPECIFIED illness insurance pays a lump sum if you are diagnosed with an illness such as cancer, a heart attack, multiple sclerosis, or a stroke -- and you survive 14 days or more from the date you were diagnosed.
Further fall in cost of living
The cost of living continued to fall last month with prices now down 6.6pc in the last year, it was revealed.
Shoppers will follow Scrooge and spend less this Christmas
THE tills are set to jingle less this Christmas, as cash-strapped consumers plan to spend a fifth less on the festive celebrations.
Household savings rose as recession took hold
IRISH households increased their savings rapidly last year as the recession took hold, figures from the Central Statistics Office show.
Pets in distress
IT isn't just humans who are suffering the brunt of the current economic downturn. The number of pets being abandoned has risen sharply over the last year.
Your Money: New 'fair deal'
IT HAS been a long time coming, but a new support scheme designed to help relieve the burden of rising nursing home costs has finally been implemented.
Abandonment is not only cruel, it's also a criminal offence
IT is extremely cruel to abandon a pet. Domesticated animals are not able to survive in the wild and the suffering caused by abandonment is enormous.
Concerns about scheme funding and conditions
Concerns have been expressed by the nursing home industry and senior citizens' organisations since the launch of the Fair Deal scheme last month.
Bumps in the road: take the right route to avoid insurance premium hikes
MOTORISTS are in for another bumpy ride as insurers are planning to hike premiums again.
Inside Surviving the Recession
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- How to lower the cost of your insurance policy
- Climate change to push up energy and insurance bills
- Credit card firm hikes rates for struggling customers
- How to take control of your credit card debt
- There is help out there if you fall behind in your repayments
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Columnist Comments
• Fight back against high insurance premiums
THE insurance industry is trying to avoid the impact of the recession by ripping off its customers.
• Five years ago, we had economic balance but all is not as it appears
THERE comes a point in life when one becomes convinced that they did things better in the old days. The arguments in favour of this proposition seem quite overwhelming but, since one heard one's parents and grandparents say the same thing, the best policy seems not to mention it -- or at least mention it as little as possible.
