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Don't let motoring costs drive you round the bend
AFTER the home it's probably the second most expensive purchase you'll ever make – and you'll have to do it a few times over in your lifetime.
Steering the youth away from drugs
MACROOM Drugs Initiative is a community response to drug and alcohol issues facing young people, their families and the community as a whole. The main aim is to provide support for people who need it, whether they are actively using drugs, recently in recovery, seeking to change their patterns or worried about someone in their family.
Enjoying life, seeing the world... and it's all thanks to budgeting
GONE are the days of feckless spending as wages shrink with each passing year. It makes everybody conscious of budgeting, but just how good are Corkonians at saving? One Churchtown National school teacher has always been a great saver – and it has stood to her.
Making your personal finances work for you
AS you begin personal budgeting, it's not uncommon to find your expenses total more than your income. Always take care of top priorities first. Then work on making practical decisions for the rest of your expenses.
New health awareness plan for pupils
A DUHALLOW school will hold a health awareness week for its 95 first year students in February where everything from nutritional advice to a marathon will be had.
Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves
WE are all trying to cut corners at the moment, where possible, without sacrificing our standard of living.
Managing suckler cows in late pregnancy
ALMOST 50% of suckler cows calve in the months of March and April, so a large proportion of beef cows are now in the final 2 – 3 months of pregnancy. There are a few important management tasks to be addressed in preparation for calving.
Shop around for your health insurance
IN these penny-pinching times most families are desperately seeking a way to cut back on their household costs.
Student life isn't quite what it used to be in these straitened times
IRELAND'S financial catastrophe has, without doubt, affected all of us ordinary mortals, while a few fat cats at the top of the tree purr away contentedly as they continue to lap up the cream of their obscenely excessive wages and salaries.
Some of the reasons why you will fail
PERSONAL budgeting will allow you to see what money you need to make ends meet and live comfortable and which expenses you can live without. If managed well, it can even allow you to increase your plan for a comfortable retirement.
Inside Lifestyle
- Practical personal budgeting
- How to create and maintain a budget
- Getting the best deal on insurance
- WHERE TO SAVE
- Get the most out of your money
- Credit cards: how to avoid curse of minimum payment
- Dooks man helping you balance your books
- Ten tips to reduce costs and to save money
- Thirteen facts you really need to know about debt
- What can you do?
- These ladies are weighing-in for a very worthy 'operation transformation'
- Get the word on the world of journalism
- Cork's first fashion showcase of 2012 is a very pink affair
- Old batteries can make a brighter January
- Young guns get to show their talent
- Give yourself a real achievement and take on the five peaks challenge
- Get your bike ready for harbour cycle
- Tourism groups must maintain their momentum
- Reaping the rewards of forest management
- We're just following the Food Dudes
- A thought for the new year
- Build-up to Kanturk arts festival
- Grace is proving to be an inspiration across North Cork
- Truly gifted ladies put their talents on show in library
- Raising awareness of a dog's life
In Pictures
Historic postcards Over 6,000 photographs, political prints and portraits from days gone by form part of a project launched at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. To view collection and buy the images, visit www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/postcards.
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