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# Money

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Money Diaries: An insurance consultant on €35K living in Munster
This week, our reader is busy renovating her home, which she purchased with her partner in August.
# Withdrawal
Ulster Bank urges customers not to switch banks 'at last minute'
The bank has committed to giving up to six months notice of its departure in 2022.
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Money Diaries: A 29-year-old quality control analyst on €54K living in Dublin
This week, our reader is determined to get back to travelling a little more and enjoys subsidised meals at work.
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Money Diaries: A student and retail worker earning €14K and living in Dublin
This week, our reader is getting ready to return to college while earning some extra money baking for friends and family.
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Money Diary: A finance analyst on €60K living with family just outside Dublin
This week, our reader is enjoying going out and socialising with friends again after the lockdowns.
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Money Diaries: A support worker on €35K living with her partner in the south west of the country
This week, our reader is disciplined in saving for her wedding after recently getting engaged.
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Money Diaries: Customer service clerk on €38K who bought a home outright with savings
This week, our reader earns some extra money by renting out the spare room in her apartment.
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Money Diaries: A PhD student on €16K living and studying in Dublin
This week, our reader is earning very little during a PhD but manages her spending by planning lots of homecooked meals.
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Money Diaries: A 25-year-old finance analyst on €45K living in the family home in Clare
This week, our reader feels lucky to be able to live with his parents rent-free while saving up for a deposit to buy his own house.
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Money Diaries: A management consultant on €62K living in Dublin with his dog
This week, our reader is disciplined in managing his finances while overpaying on his mortgage.
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Money Diaries: A barista on €19K living with her partner in shared accommodation in Dublin
This week, our reader is taking her time saving money so she can go back to college.
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Money Diaries: A civil servant on €57K working from home and caring for her aunt
This week, our reader feels lucky to be able to save the equivalent of her mortgage payments while living with her aunt.
# Your Say
Poll: Have you changed energy supplier in 2021?
Prices have been rising in recent months – but has that encouraged you to change?
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Money Diaries: A researcher on €49K living with her husband in their new house in Dublin
This week, our reader is working from home while saving money for when she goes on maternity leave.
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Money Diaries: A project engineer in the north east of the country on €32K
This week, our reader is working hard and managing finances while trying to save for a mortgage.
# Moola
Quiz: How much do you know about currencies?
Ching ching.
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Money Diaries: A product manager on over €140K with a young family in Dublin
This week, our reader is busy balancing working from home with taking care of their children.
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Money Diaries: A 23-year-old student and fast food worker on €13K living in Dublin
This week, our reader is working hard to save for college fees.
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Money Diaries: A civil servant on €33k living in Dublin and working from home
This week, our reader is busy working from home while trying not to overspend when socialising with friends.
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Money Diaries: A recruitment consultant on €32K living in the midlands with his family
This week, our reader is juggling family life and working from home, taking care not to overspend.
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Money Diaries: A process scientist on €57K supporting the family while her husband studies
This week, our reader is using her salary to keep the show on the road as her husband returns to learn a new skill.
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Money Diaries: A warehouse worker on €22K living and working in Dublin
This week, our reader is working late shifts and managing health and wellbeing.
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Money Diaries: A finance company employee on €24K living in Kildare
This week, our reader is saving hard and managing finances, but is keen to move closer to friends and family.
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Money Diaries: A loan officer on €34K who has moved back to Wexford because of lockdown
This week, our reader has moved home from a house share in Dublin and is working from home and enjoying life in the country.
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Money Diaries: A primary school teacher on €45K living in Sligo
This week, our reader is enjoying life in Sligo during lockdown and watching her spending.
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Money Diaries: A civil servant in Dublin on €24K missing socialising with friends
This week, our reader is enjoying a new job and trying to be careful with spending, while missing catching up with friends.
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Money Diaries: A warehouse worker on €21K living at home because rents are so high
This week, our reader is glad to be still working during Covid and is trying to make his earnings work for him.
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Money Diaries: A software engineer on €50K living in Dublin with her parents to save for a home
This week, our reader has moved back to the family home in order to try to save money for a house, which she feels is out of her reach.
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Money Diaries: A charity shop manager in the south of the country trying to make ends meet
This week, our reader is a charity shop manager receiving the Covid payment while lockdown continues.
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Money Diaries: A primary teacher on €37K based in the south east during lockdown
This week, our reader is back home away from Dublin for lockdown and is able to earn some extra cash painting along the way.
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Money Diaries: An education service manager on over €55K, living with family in the Midlands
This week, our reader and his wife are busier than ever in lockdown between homeschooling and working.
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Money Diaries: An actor and bartender on the PUP, keeping busy through lockdown in Dublin
This week, our reader is trying to keep busy in lockdown by reading, writing and running. He also shares his thoughts on life on the PUP, oh and says hello to Domhnall Gleeson.
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Money Diaries: A primary teacher on €52K homeschooling and teaching remotely
This week, our reader is a primary school teacher documenting her spending while she juggles homeschooling of her own children and her pupils.
# Money
January tax revenue down almost €520 million on same month last year
An exchequer surplus was recorded last month, but the government said this will be “entirely reversed” in February.
# Waterford
Two men arrested after gardaí seize €90,000 worth of cocaine and €64,000 in cash
Gardaí searched two vehicles in Butlerstown, Co Waterford, yesterday.
# money owed
Pandemic Unemployment Payment arrears to be paid to 286,000 recipients today
Some cases progressed more slowly due to their complexity and due to inadequate or inaccurate information provided.
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Money Diaries: A 22-year-old HR professional on €24K, renting and living in Dublin
This week, our reader details how she’s staying fit and keeping her spending under control as she works hard during the Covid-19 pandemic.
# COME WHAT MAY
Billions set aside to deal with Covid-19 fallout next year
Contingency money and a recovery fund of over €5bn has been put aside for next year.
# SUPPORTS
It would be unfair to restore PUP for one cohort of workers and not others, says minister
Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys said the money will have to be paid back.
# Money
Card spend increase last month in pubs, restaurants and hotels compared to 2019, AIB says
The average card transaction in pubs has increased by 50% since last year.