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Do you know what have a tracker?

The IMF would like to remove your tax relief.

The idea is that savings from taking mortgage tax relief [about €1,200 per couple] off those on trackers would be used to subsidise the banks for the losses being made on these products, although how this would work is not fully explained in the IMF report.

 

It’s OK.

It would only affect around 500,000 mortgage holders.

Everyone stay cool.

Homeowners on trackers ‘should lose tax relief’ (Charlie Weston, Irish Independent)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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Don’t all get jealous at once …… 43 years ago next week one of my contributors spent a weekend at a concert…. and kept the ticket to tease generations to come.

 

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For his latest showcase video (two years in the making, apparently) Red Bull supplies the legendary Scottish street trials rider with a playground filled with colourful oversized props to muck about on.

Previously: Eleven Athlete Powered Rube Goldberg Machine, Danny MacAskill On The Streets Of San Francisco

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Boat-Breaks-in-Two-01-e1371655369888-634x337Boat-Breaks-in-Two-05-634x420Boat-Breaks-in-Two-02-634x420 Boat-Breaks-in-Two-04-634x420 Boat-Breaks-in-Two-03-634x422On Monday, after just five years in service, the container ship MOL Comfort met its maker off the Yemen coast when – loaded with cargo – it split in two as its bow and stern dropped down into troughs either side of a large wave.

All 26 crew survived and were safely transported from the two halves which – bizarrely – remain afloat, awaiting tugs to drag them to shore.

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