We have this plan to walk the Camino
Ever since I watched the Martin Sheen movie ‘The Way‘, about a man who walks the Camino (or The Way of St James) to Santiago de Compostela, I’ve been intrigued
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Water features of Bushy Park Dublin
I’m very lucky to live near to Bushy Park in Terenure, Dublin. It’s a great park with loads of amenities, and is also a park full of interesting places to
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Waiting one year for my citizenship
It’s now exactly 12 months to the day since I applied for Irish citizenship through naturalisation. And I’m still waiting… The INIS website says that “it takes 6 months for
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Integrating shopping receipts with my bank statement
With most transaction now taking place by card, the days of the paper-based receipts in shops are surely numbered. Some shops now ask me whether or not I want a
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British citizens in Ireland after Brexit
It looks increasingly likely that a no-deal Brexit will go ahead on 29th March 2019. So what does that mean for the 100,000 British citizens currently living in Ireland? In
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Changing mortgage at the end of a fixed rate
We took out a fixed-rate mortgage for our home around 3 years ago, and that fixed-rate period is about to come to an end. If we had done nothing and
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