What’s the Right Mortgage Protection for You? When you take on a mortgage, protecting it isn’t just smart, it’s essential1. But with so many protection types available, like life cover, serious illness cover, and job-loss protection, it can be tricky to choose the best fit. ✅ 1. Life Insurance Cover Covers your mortgage if you pass away, ensuring no remaining liability for your family. I... read more>

Health insurance premiums in Ireland have been steadily increasing, For instance, VHI recently implemented an average increase of 3%, while Laya Healthcare and Irish Life Health raised their rates by 6.6% and 3.7%, respectively.1 Providers are mostly blaming the spike in prices on the increase in claim costs and more advanced treatments.1 As the demand and price for healthcare continues to r... read more>

Last week a new variant of Covid was identified by South African scientists and subsequently detected in many locations around the world. How should societies respond? Panic and lockdown or carry on the path we were on before the variant emerged? When Covid first emerged in early 2020 we knew nothing about it; how dangerous it would be how fast it would spread. At the time Governments around... read more>

Inflation in Ireland is reaching 2%, the highest it’s been in 10 years, but not much compared to the 20% inflation we hit in 1981. How will our household budgets be affected? Do we want more or less inflation? The European Central Bank made a radical shift in its inflation policy this year, moving from a policy to cap inflation in the eurozone at a maximum of 2%, to a policy of targeting an ... read more>

In 1845, before the great famine, the population of Ireland stood at 8.5 million, which was exactly half of the 17 million population of the United States at the time. The US now has a population of 330 million, we have dropped from 50% to 1.5% of the US population. Today, in our near neighbour the Netherlands, over 500 people live at a high standard per square kilometre, here in Ireland it is ... read more>