Moving to Ireland
Sky is the most popular digital Television provider in Ireland. It is estimated that around one in three houses in Ireland have Sky Satellite TV installed. Sky Ireland has several packages available to suit your household. The basic Sky Entertainment package has 90 channels with all your Irish and UK favourites. You can watch On-Demand … Read more
Amazon is one of the biggest and best-known online shopping websites in the world. There isn’t currently a separate Amazon.ie website for Ireland , but it might be on the way in the near future.Brexit possibly made a few Irish shoppers a bit warier of shopping on some UK websites – but until we have … Read more
If you live in Ireland and do not have a medical card or a GP Visit Card , you are considered a private patient if you visit your GP. This means that you must pay for the services provided. Under 8’s and over 70’s now get free GP services in Ireland. (As long as the … Read more
The Soldier’s Song is the National Anthem of Ireland. It was written in 1907 by Peadar Kearney, an uncle of Brendan Behan, but was not widely known until it was sung both at the GPO during the Easter Rising of 1916 and later at various camps where republicans were interned. Soon after, it was adopted … Read more
There are around 50 fee-paying Private secondary schools in Ireland – with about 26000 pupils attending them.The state in Ireland provides a subsidy to all fee-paying schools – around €110 Million Euro a year in total.The state subsidy allows the schools to keep fees low compared to the UK (for example).Sinn Fein and Labour have … Read more