North Kildare Chamber Overall Business of the year Award 2015
Dooley Insurance Group were delighted to sponsor the overall business of the year award for 2015. All of the individual section winners should be deservedly proud of their great achievement, however the winners on the night were Kildare Village who earlier in the night also won the Tourism and Hospitality award. A well done to [...]
NEWBRIDGE CREDIT UNION.
Thousands of savers have their CU accounts closed Thousands of savers with the defunct Newbridge Credit Union have had their accounts closed and their money returned to them. Up to 15,000 savers got cheques in the post in the past few weeks from Permanent TSB, which took over the loans and savings of the [...]
NEW MORTGAGE CRITERIA – CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND FAQ.
FAQ – New regulations on residential mortgage lending 1. What loan-to-income (LTI) restrictions on residential mortgage lending is the Central Bank introducing? A LTI limit of 3.5 times gross annual income applies to all new lending for principal-dwelling homes (PDH) purposes. This limit should be exceeded by no more than 20 per cent of [...]
LIFETIME COMMUNITY RATING – LCR
Aviva’s Guide to LCR – Lifetime Community Rating What is Lifetime Community Rating? In Ireland, everybody is charged the same premium for a particular health insurance plan, irrespective of their age, gender and the current or likely future state of their health. This is called community rating. On the 1st May 2015, the government will [...]
NPPR Tax Amnesty ends
Property owners risk penalty of €7,230 as amnesty ends Fiona Reddan - Irish Times 12th Aug 2014 Landlords and owners of holiday homes are being urged to settle any outstanding NPPR charges before August 31st 2014 to avoid additional late payment penalties, which could be as high as €7,230. The Non Principal Private Residence (NPPR) [...]
Excellent Bloomberg Article on Surging Stock Prices
Surging U.S. Stocks Echo Dot-Com Rally With Cheaper P/E By Lu Wang and Oliver Renick - Aug 26, 2014 Every day, the American bull market looks more and more like the dot-com bubble of the late1990s. Except when it comes to valuations. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX) briefly jumped above 2,000 for [...]
Life assurance = Replacement of Income
This is a copy of an article published on the 28th of July in the Irish Independent. It follows some research by a life assurance company - Caledonian Life- that we are now placing less value on our lives since we did 10 years ago. Life assurance is taken out so that you can provide [...]
Property price rises – lift homes from negative equities
Good news article published in the Irish independent this week. If you are thinking of taking out a mortgage please give us a ring and we can help you start the process ! 45,000 homeowners lifted out of negative equity by price rise THOUSANDS of mortgage holders have been lifted out of negative equity by [...]
Health Insurance – recent article
Private health industry is crying out for business Sinead Ryan – Published 01 June 2014 02:30 AM THE health insurance industry appears to have suddenly adopted the Domino's Pizza business model. Or maybe Ben & Jerry's. Good templates both, but the pay-as-you-go 'toppings' approach isn't taken lightly when ordering a treat, so it certainly shouldn't be [...]