Moving to Ireland
A Critical Skills Employment Permit scheme is in place in Ireland to help migrants enter Ireland from NON EEA countries who are going to work in occupations where there are strategic skills shortages.(Before Oct 2014 this was known as the Green Card Scheme) Critical Skills Employment Permits (CSEP) are issued by the Department of Jobs, … Read more
In Ireland it is a prosecutable offence to be found in possession of an unlicensed television set. An Irish TV licence costs €160 . Fines for not having a licence can be up to €1000 for a first offence. Any person in occupancy at an address in Ireland where a television set is held is … Read more
Payment Protection Insurance or PPI for short – was usually sold by banks, credit card companies and retailers alongside mortgages, personal loans, credit cards , store cards , car loans , overdrafts and business loans. The scale of the mis-selling of payment protection insurance in Ireland (just like the UK) is becoming clearer. In October … Read more
Visa applications for Ireland These are the contact details and locations of Irish Visa offices in UK, China , India , Nigeria , Russia , UAE and Turkey Visa applications for Ireland are made online – but paper forms , passports etc need to be delivered to an Irish Visa Office in your country – … Read more
Ireland has been a mainly Catholic country for many years – but the number of people who still class themselves as Catholic has gradually declined in recent decades. There are now people with a variety of religions in Ireland. In 2016 – the census recorded that there were 78.3% of the population of Ireland who … Read more