Being a motorist these days can be quite stressful. Apart from the tedious hours spent sitting in traffic jams, you have to worry about paying for tax and insurance, fuel and the inevitable repairs required (unless you bought a unicorn). According to the AA’s annual survey exami

Airbnb has been facilitating stays in Irish homes since 2009 – over 419,000 to date. Between October 2014 and September 2015 alone, 7,200 hosts welcomed guests into their home. Though most of these travellers come from Europe, almost a third travel from the US, with small numbers visi

In news which has taken the worldwide motoring industry by storm, around 11 million Volkswagen Group cars around the globe are set to be recalled due to irregularities over software they installed in their cars which changed the results of US Government emissions tests. RTÉ reports un

As a mostly aerobic activity that gives your heart, lungs, muscles and blood vessels a great workout, cycling is an effective and enjoyable way of improving your overall fitness levels. Cycle to work or school, or simply around your neighbourhood for fun, and you could see the potenti

If you’re looking at your annual tax bill with despair, but you’d really like to decrease it as much as possible then Ireland, apparently, isn’t the place to be. That’s according to a piece by Louise McBride in the Irish Independent this week, which says that t

The Revenue Commissioners are to clampdown on abuse of the system whereby tax exemptions are granted on payments made by parents to their children. The Irish Times reports this week that under the new Finance Bill, the exemption could be limited to gifts/inheritance tax to children un

A study carried out by Social Justice Ireland has revealed that a radical reform of the tax credit system in Ireland, to make tax credits refundable to the working poor, would cost a snip of the miscalculated estimates produced by the Department of Finance. The proposal from Social Ju