Money Guide Ireland

The Department of Health has estimated that 140,000 people over 70 years of age currently have an automatic entitlement to a medical card because of their age. These people did not have a medical card before they reached 70.
Following today’s Budget changes, which take effect from January 2009 , the Health Service Executive is to […]

If you are flying from Dublin airport this summer - you may well have the added expense of parking fees. Car Park changes are pretty much unavoidable if you are driving to the airport.
A two week holiday could end up costing you an extra €133 euro in parking fees.
parking in the Long Stay car parks […]

Article updated with corrections to Figures Sept 3rd 2008
The new tolling system for the M50 is due to begin on August 30th 2008 (only 3 weeks away) .
Basically there are 3 different options for drivers using the M50:
Option 1. Do nothing : Your car registration number will be logged by cameras as you […]

(Updated Aug 28th )
The M50 barrier free tolling system is supposed to begin on August 30th. The system is being introduced to help increase traffic flow - the system will have cameras to record your registration numbers and readers to read toll tags.
For non regular M50 users (less than 5 trips a […]

From August 30th 2008 a new “barrier free” tolling system called eFlow is being introduced on the M50 . 3 options (cash at the toll plaza is NOT one of them.) You can register for a tag from one of the several suppliers and be charged €2 per journey. Or you can register your car […]