Chained for life to a mortgage
YOUNG people buying their first home are still queuing up for 40-year mortgages, sentencing themselves to a lifetime of debt. And the lending institutions are happy to oblige.
Children must integrate to grow
Being a foreigner myself, it is obvious to me that an immigrant child is more likely to develop his or her language skills by integrating with children of the same age rather than from a language support teacher.
Why we must champion our athletes
"I live alone in a city where no one is my age..." began Alistair Cragg in what is one of the most devastating but inspiring sports interviews I've ever heard.
Buying gold. . . Edinbore . . . Game on . . . eFlow
l I thought Martina Devlin's article (Irish Independent, August 21) was spot on. For my twopence worth, I feel that we ought to concentrate our efforts on the technical sports such as track cycling. GB spent £31m (€38.9m) on their track team and have now won 40pc of their medals from this sport. That's a pretty good return, 14 medals of varying hues at £2.2m (€2.7m) per medal. I'd buy that any day.
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