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Money Diaries: A student and retail worker earning €14K and living in Dublin
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Money Diary: A finance analyst on €60K living with family just outside Dublin
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Money Diaries: A support worker on €35K living with her partner in the south west of the country
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Money Diaries: Customer service clerk on €38K who bought a home outright with savings
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Money Diaries: A PhD student on €16K living and studying in Dublin
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Money Diaries: A 25-year-old finance analyst on €45K living in the family home in Clare
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Money Diaries: A management consultant on €62K living in Dublin with his dog
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Money Diaries: A barista on €19K living with her partner in shared accommodation in Dublin
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Money Diaries: A civil servant on €57K working from home and caring for her aunt
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Money Diaries: A researcher on €49K living with her husband in their new house in Dublin
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Money Diaries: A project engineer in the north east of the country on €32K
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Money Diaries: A product manager on over €140K with a young family in Dublin
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Money Diaries: A 23-year-old student and fast food worker on €13K living in Dublin
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Money Diaries: A civil servant on €33k living in Dublin and working from home
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Money Diaries: A recruitment consultant on €32K living in the midlands with his family
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Money Diaries: A process scientist on €57K supporting the family while her husband studies
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Money Diaries: A product manager on €85K living in Dublin with her partner and dog
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Money Diaries: A language specialist in IT & partner earning a combined €75K saving for a home
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Money Diaries: A public sector manager on €96K grateful for remote working and time with family
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Money Diaries: A 24-year-old software developer earning €40K and living in Dublin
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Money Diaries: A project manager on €67K living in Wexford in a house she and partner just bought
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Money Diaries: A warehouse worker on €22K living and working in Dublin
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Money Diaries: A finance company employee on €24K living in Kildare
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Money Diaries: A loan officer on €34K who has moved back to Wexford because of lockdown
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Money Diaries: A primary school teacher on €45K living in Sligo
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Money Diaries: A civil servant in Dublin on €24K missing socialising with friends
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Money Diaries: An IT consultant on €126K living and working in London
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Money Diaries: A youth worker in Dublin on €35K balancing income and high rents
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Money Diaries: A warehouse worker on €21K living at home because rents are so high
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Money Diaries: An apprentice lab analyst on €25K saving to extend the family home
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Money Diaries: A bank analyst on €63K living in London but working through Covid from home in Cork
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Money Diaries: A software engineer on €50K living in Dublin with her parents to save for a home
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Money Diaries: An occupational therapist on €54K working through the pandemic in Dublin
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Money Diaries: A charity shop manager in the south of the country trying to make ends meet
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Money Diaries: A primary teacher on €37K based in the south east during lockdown
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Money Diaries: An education service manager on over €55K, living with family in the Midlands
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Money Diaries: An actor and bartender on the PUP, keeping busy through lockdown in Dublin
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Money Diaries: A primary teacher on €52K homeschooling and teaching remotely
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Money Diaries: A 29-year-old woman on €46K having moved from Dublin to the country
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Money Diaries: A 27-year-old technical support worker on €34K decorating her new home
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