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Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Patrick O’Donovan TD has this week launched Green Skills 2030, the first National Further Education and Training (FET) Strategy for the Green Transition.

Transition year is a popular choice for students when they complete the Junior Certificate. Since its introduction in 1974, the programme has grown rapidly, now being offered at 75 per cent of schools nationwide. Teenagers are given the perfect opportunity to mature, acquire new skills, and gain both work and life experience. All well and good, but is it really a good idea?

Credit Unions top the list of financial service providers in terms of consumer confidence, with over half of respondents (51%) to a new survey by Peopl Insurance reporting a high level of trust in the financial institution, compared to 39% of people who would place this same level of trust in An Post, and 18% who feel the same about traditional banks.

Athlone Credit Union and Castlerea and District Credit Union are proposing to unite the two financial institutions as one strong combined Athlone & Castlerea Credit Union.

Two credit unions in the West have come together to support their members at a time of both personal and economic challenge. St Jarlath’s Credit Union and St Anthony’s & Claddagh Credit Union, who plan on merging in 2020, have joined forces to offer a reduced rate personal loan as well as expert financial advice in recognition of the current difficulties faced by its members and the community at large.

Two of the largest credit unions in the West of Ireland, St Anthony’s & Claddagh Credit Union and St Jarlath’s Credit Union are planning to merge.

The landscape of the residential letting market has changed during the Covid 19 crisis. Deirdre Greaney, letting manager with Winters Property Management, explains why there is an increase in letting properties on the market.

Insider thinks the answer to this question has to be: probably not. Capitalism is a voracious system forever in search of somewhere to put its money so that it can turn that money into more money.

Second-hand, imported cars from the UK continue to rise in popularity with the Irish consumer. In fact, the latest Consumer Market Monitor (CMM)* reports that second-hand cars imported from the UK will overtake the number of new cars sold in Ireland for the first time ever this year.

When Donald Trump was elected on a platform of far-right populism, many thought that, once in office he would soften his cough a good bit, or at least the “checks and balances” of the American political system would go some way to restrict his more madcap proposals.