The rent-a-room relief lets you earn up to €14,000 per year tax-free if you rent out a room (or rooms) in your home to private tenants. A self-contained unit, such as a basement flat or a converted garage attached to your home, can qualify for this relief. While renting out […]
Bantry Credit Union has more than halved the interest it charges on education loans, from seven to three per cent. According to the credit union, this is the lowest interest rate charged on education or student loans by any financial institution in the country. Explaining the decision, Chairperson of Bantry […]
There’s still plenty of sunshine around for the last shows of the season for Blue House Gallery in Schull. Opening on Friday, September 2 and running until Wednesday, September 14 is (on the ground floor) Elke Thonnes’s exhibition ‘Seeking the Light’ – monoprints focusing mainly on the coastline around Dublin […]
From September 4, Kenmare Butter Market is hosting a significant retrospective exhibition of the work of Ian Humphreys, an artist who has called West Cork “home” for over 20 years. “The work includes still lives, figures, land/seascapes and abstractions, and all the shades between these conventional categories,” says art lecturer […]