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Car, heating, the mortgage… all driven up
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR Diesel has gone above €2 a litre at many petrol stations. The AA puts the extra cost for a typical driver at around €235 a year. Home heating oil is up 44% on the year. A 1,000-litre fill is about €550 dearer than last winter. Food, for once, is relatively …
We must lift children out of poverty
AS I SEE IT BY MARIANNE HERON Child poverty sounds like a phrase which should belong back in Victorian times in tales like Charles Dickens’s ‘Oliver Twist’ or involve Tom the dirty chimney sweep in Charles Kingsley’s ‘Water Babies’. Hungry orphan Oliver has to live by his wits as a thief, while the luckless Tom …
Freedom and the price that comes with being wired up
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS It was the French philosopher Descartes who declared, “I think, therefore I am.” Today, it would be more apt to declare, “I am wired, therefore I am.” Today if you are not wired, you do not exist for those who are. Like radio and television in the …
