

I lost €50!
I had withdrawn €50 the other morning at a local ATM and was rushing back to my car as my next stop was a meeting with a client. I had planned to grab a coffee but knew I wouldn’t make the meeting so my caffeine fix would have to wait – not good but one must deal with these challenges from time to time… Anyway, the note was one of those never-used-before crisp notes, one that slides out of the machine and feels great in your hand, all the more satisfying knowing it’s never be


Make Hay While the Sun Shines...
So it seems we are back in a Celtic Tiger, Celtic Tiger part 2 if you will – at least in some parts of the country anyway, certainly not nationwide. It has sort of crept up on us, after several years of doom & gloom, then some rays of hope, and now it’s a full-on tiger roar. Were those darker years a bad dream? Unfortunately not. Did we learn anything from that time? I'd like to think so. The evidence is all around us, plenty of 2017 registration plates, many of which stuck t