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Which Credit Card is the Best in Ireland?

Like anywhere else in the world, the “best” credit card in Ireland for one person may not be best for someone else. Once you define your spending habits and needs, you’ll have to shop around. In general, finding the lowest interest rate is most important. The problem is, unless you have good to excellent credit, the lower, more heavily advertised interest rates won’t be available to you. The average is about 18%.

Balance transfers can provide another attractive option. Some credit cards offer an introductory 0% APR on balance transfers for a set period of time, say six months. Only take this option if you are sure you can pay the entire transferred balance off within this time period. Soon as that time is up, the interest rates jump back up and you’re on the hook for them again. Make sure you are clear on details of the procedure, too. Some cards don’t charge for the first balance transfer, while others don’t charge for any balance transfers, while still others charge for ever other balance transfer. Also note that the grace period generally begins the day you open your account, not the day the balance transfer takes place. This could drastically shorten the time available to you to pay the balance off.

One thing that people moving to Ireland from other places quickly learn is that there is an annual government stamp duty on credit cards of €30. That’s €30 per year per credit card account.

If you’re not careful, you could end up paying the government credit card tax twice if you switch cards during the year. You’ll be charged when you close your current card, and you’ll be charged again on the new card unless you have your old card issuer send a letter of closure to the new issuer as proof that you already paid the current year’s tax.

MasterCard, Visa, and Eurocard are almost universally accepted in Ireland, including at retail stores, supermarkets, hotels, railways, gas stations, and airports. While there are some establishments that accept American Express and Diners Club, there aren’t as many as will accept Visa, MasterCard, and Eurocard. Only a very few places accept Discover.

If you want a quick way to compare credit card terms, the government website itsyourmoney.ie has a very handy chart that does just this. The information in the chart is updated frequently as new offers arrive and old ones expire.

About the Author

Peter Carville is a freelance article writer who writes for Financial Facts about the current financial news and the credit crunch.

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Irish Railways - Peat Railways Of Ireland (DVD) $6.93 A study of the narrow gauge railways of Bord na Mona. The locos include Hunslet, Simplex, Ruston, Deutz, and Gleismacs. For those interested in Ireland's railways, the end of an era came in January 1961, with the closure of the West Clare Railway, the last 3ft guage line in the country. However,that was anything but the end of the story as far as the 3ft guage in Ireland was concerned. Today there are over 1,000 miles of narrow gauge railway still in use, twice as much 3ft guage track as there was in the 1920s. This network operated by Bond na Mona, the Irish Peat Board, is probably the biggest industrial railway system in Europe. Used to convey peat harvested in the bogs to power stations and processing plants and prosessing plants, long trains of bogie wagons are hauled considerable distances. Locomotives built by Hunslet Simplex, Ruston and Deutz, Gleismacs built t the old GNR works at Dundalk, and new 3ft gauge locos built in Ireland in the 1990s by Bord na Mona are all seen in actions. In this programme, largely filmed in the glorious summer of 1995 using broadcast quality Betacam cameras, trains are seen out on the bogs, at power stations, crossing specially built viaducts and a swing bridge over the Grand Canal, and in one memorable sequence, where a narrow guage line passes under the main Dublin to Cork railway, trains on Ireland's two gauges are seen in action at the same time. This, the first modern image DVD in the Irish Rialways series, will prove as much of a revelation and a delight as have the previous archive programmes.

Irish Railways - The Irish Narrow Gauge (DVD) $6.93 Featuring coloured film footage of five 3ft. gauge railway systems in Ireland, made between 1939 and 1959. Includes: The Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway, The County Donegal Railway, The Cavan & Leitrim Railway, The Tralee & Dingle Railway and The West Clare Railway. Narrated by Tom Ferris. The greatest concentration of narrow gauge railways in the British Isles was to be found in Ireland, where, between the 1870s and 1920, over 530 miles of 3ft gauge track were constructed. Though the last of these lines closed in1961, their attraction for those interested in railways has, if anything, increased with the passage of time. In this, the first dvd devoted entirely to these fascinating lines, we present colour films made between 1939 and 1959 which featured five 3ft gauge systems in different parts of the country The Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway Canon Tom Doherty's remarkable colour film of the line from Letterkenny to Burtonport was made in 1939 and features one of the Swilly's pair of 4-8-0 tender engines, the most impressive machines ever to grace Ireland's 3ft gauge tracks. This is probably the most earliest colur film of an Irish railway ever made. The County Donegal Railway Films by Keith Christie and J H Roberts. Locations featured include Ballyshannon, Killyegs, Strabane and Letterkenny. The three type of CDR steam locomotives which survived into the 1950s are shown, as are a brace of the system's pioneering diesel railcars. The Cavan & Leitrim Railway Both the C & L's main line Dromod to Belturbet and the roadside tramway to Arigna are covered. Entirely steam worked until closure in 1959, as well as the original C & L steam locomotives we see engines transferred form the Cork, Blackrock & Passage (closed in 1932) and the Tralee & Dingle (closed in 1953) at work in Keith Christie's films. The Tralee & Dingle Railway J H Robets was a passenger on one of the last passenger trains on this famous line in June 1953 and recorded the passage of the train at various locations along the way. The West Clare Railway Fully modernised in the 1950s, Keith Christie and J H Roberts recorded the new diesel railcars and locomotives on passenger and freight trains on the main line from Ennis to Kikee and on the branch from Moyasta Junction to Kilrush

Irish Railways - From Steam To Diesel (DVD) $6.93 The 1960s saw major changes on Ireland's railways. This programme uses cine film recorded by Geoff Lumb who faithfully followed the changeover from steam to diesel. The 1960s was a decade which saw major changes on Ireland's railways. On the down side there were significant line closures both north and south of the border and these years also saw the virtual elimination of steam traction.But it was also a period which offered a fascinating mixture of the old and the new and provided much of interest to those observing the railway scene in the country. The changing face of the railways of Ireland in the 1960s was faithfully recorded on cine film by Geoff Lumb, a Yorkshireman, who visited Ireland regularly throughout these years. A selection from his extensive archive of Irish railway films is published for the first time in this DVD. Following on chronologically from the fifth volume in the series which dealt with the 1940s and 50s the programme begins with some of the last steam workings in the CIE networks in the Irish Republic. These are contrasted with the diesels which were gaining supremacy. Several of the diesel types featured, like the A and C classes and the diminutive Deutz diesel hydraulics are now themselves but a memory.Among the CIE lines visited for the first time in the course of this series are those to Foynes. Ballaghaderreen, Fenit, Birr and Youghai. Moving north the railways of Ulster which were preferred to locomotives, are seen sharing the tracks with the steam locomotives they were replacing. A variety of former Great Northern and LMS/NCC steam engines are seen in action on lines throughout the province.Perhaps the highlight of the part of the programme is the sight of one of the new CIE General Motors diesels working on the former Great Northern line to Derry in the last year of its existence.

Irish Railways - Twilight Of Steam In Ireland (DVD) $6.93 More film from the camera of John Laird, which recalls the last years of steam traction in the 1960s on Ireland's railways. A royalty from the sale of this video will be donated to the Railway Preservation Society Of Ireland. Twilight of Steam in Ulster features a further selection of the films made by John ,Laird, who set out in the early and mid-1960s to record as much as he could of the remaining steam workings on Ireland's 5ft 3in standard gauge railways. Whilst the diesels ruled unchallenged on the CIE system in the Irish Republic, a considerabe variety of steam locomotives and steam workings could still be experienced on the railway network in Northern Ireland, which was run by the Ulster Transport Authority. This programme looks at some of the workings frequently entrusted to steam and some of the lines where steam was still very active. Along section devoted should be to the loose coupled steam hauled goods trains which would soon pass into histroy. The dock lines in Belfast are explored and in a country where industrial railays were rare, a special sequence features the pair of 5ft 3in gauge Pecket saddletanks, which were employed by Courtaulds at Carrickfergus in County Antrim. Other aspects of steam portrayed are special workings and excursions, steam hauled surburban services and the use of steam locomotives on the branch from Goraghwood to Warrenport and the Great Northern line to Derry - the two line which closed in 1965 and which are still mourned by railway enthusiasts. This programme completes John Laird's trilogy on transport in Ulster in teh 1960s. Along with the companion volumes Irsih Railways 2 - The Swansong of Steam in Ulster, and Trolleybus Days in Belfast, both published by Midland and Online, John Laird has made a significant contribution to the recording of the recent social history of the province, and provided a wealth of pleasure and nostalgia for all of those interested in transport.

Irish Railways - Baltimore To Belfast (DVD) $6.93 Between 1951 and 1953 American teenager Richard D Kehm travelled from one end of Ireland to the other with his cine camera filming trains and locations. A Journey Through The 1950s Part 1 In 1951 the teenage son of an American diplomat arrived in Ireland, where his father had been posted by the State Department. That young man, Richard D Kehm, was a keen railway enthusiast and he owned a cine camera. Between 1951 and 1953, when the family left Ireland, and in the visits later in the decade, Richard set out to record as much of Ireland's railway system on cine, as he could. In this first selection of his films we journey form one end of the country to th eother, visiting locations and viewing trins, many of which appear in this series for the first time. Highlights include, on the 3ft guage,steam on the West Clare and the famous cattle specials on the Tralee & Dingle line, and on the board gauge the Dublin to Cork main line at a period when almost all the trains were hauled by steam locomotives. There are exrended sequences at Kildare and Limerick Junction, steam on Dublin's Harcourt Street Line, the Great Northern Railway's Hill of Howth tramway and the variety of motive power which could be seen on the GNR main line in th early 1950s. The programme concludes with the sight of an ex-Belfats & Country Down Railway Baltic tank locomotive at work on the Bangor line.

Irish Railways Vol. 2 - The Swansong Steam In Ulster (DVD) $6.93 Though steam had gone south by 1963, in these colour films by John Laird, we see ex-GNR and LMS/NCC classes at work on Ulster’s railways in the 1960s. Included are ex-GNR S, U & VS class 4-4-0s, SG and UG 0-6-0’s LMS/NCC 2-6-4Ts and Moguls. This new and revised edition of the pioneering volume in our Irish Railways series provides a splendid introduction to some of the delights which could be seen on both Ireland's 5ft 3in standard gauge tracks and the country's famed narrow gauge lines, form the 1950s throuhg the 1970s. The programme progresses from north to south beginning with the railways of Ulster. Sequnces feture Derby- built tanks at work on motorway construction trains, the Great Northern Railway in the 1950s, including many lines which were soon to close and the Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Countries Railway whose locomotives were known by name only and never carried numbers. Another unique sight is that of the Fintona horse tram, whose motive power ate hay ans was called Dick! Three narrow gauge systems faeture in the programme; the Country Donegal with its red and cream railcars and red liveried steam locos, the Cavan & Leitrim with its coal trains and cow catchers and not a diesel in sight, and the West Clare line, fully modernised in the mid 1950s. Standard gauge lines seen in the Republic include those serving Dublin's three main stations, the tramway throuhg the streets of Cork and the lines serving the west of that country. Motive power ranges from relatively modern steam locomotives through to venerable survivors from the last century, the first generation of diesel locomotives and railcars and that most Irish of rail vehicles, the rail-bus. This programme also includes a film made by John Laird of the Great Northern's Belfast terminus at Great Victoria Street which closed in the 1970s, the new station opened on its site by Northern Ireland Railways on 1995 and a film made by Edwin Wilmshurst of steam trains at work on the Loughrea branch in County Galway, one of the last steam-worked lines in the south.

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Irish Railways Vol. 1 - Irish Railway Miscellany 1950's To 1970's (DVD) $6.93 Using films from the 1950’s to the 1970’s this DVD provides a wonderful introduction to the railways in Ireland This new and revised edition of the pioneering volume in our Irish Railways series provides a splendid introduction to some of the delights which could be seen on both Ireland's 5ft 3in standard gauge tracks and the country's famed narrow gauge lines, form the 1950s throuhg the 1970s. The programme progresses from north to south beginning with the railways of Ulster. Sequnces feture Derby- built tanks at work on motorway construction trains, the Great Northern Railway in the 1950s, including many lines which were soon to close and the Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Countries Railway whose locomotives were known by name only and never carried numbers. Another unique sight is that of the Fintona horse tram, whose motive power ate hay ans was called Dick! Three narrow gauge systems faeture in the programme; the Country Donegal with its red and cream railcars and red liveried steam locos, the Cavan & Leitrim with its coal trains and cow catchers and not a diesel in sight, and the West Clare line, fully modernised in the mid 1950s. Standard gauge lines seen in the Republic include those serving Dublin's three main stations, the tramway throuhg the streets of Cork and the lines serving the west of that country. Motive power ranges from relatively modern steam locomotives through to venerable survivors from the last century, the first generation of diesel locomotives and railcars and that most Irish of rail vehicles, the rail-bus. This programme also includes a film made by John Laird of the Great Northern's Belfast terminus at Great Victoria Street which closed in the 1970s, the new station opened on its site by Northern Ireland Railways on 1995 and a film made by Edwin Wilmshurst of steam trains at work on the Loughrea branch in County Galway, one of the last steam-worked lines in the south.

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Irish Railways - 1940's And 1950's (DVD) $6.93 Featuring the Irish railway system between the 1940's and 1950's. Includes: the Great Northern main line in 1947, the Dublin to Cork route in 1947, a trip to Enniskillen, Fintona Junction and the Fintona Horse Tram. Narrated by Tom Ferris.

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