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Money Diaries A digital marketing manager on €74K living in Dublin

This week, our reader is adjusting the financial and health aspects of their life after a separation.

WELCOME TO HOW I Spend My Money, a series on The Journal that looks at how people in Ireland really handle their finances.

We’re asking readers to keep a record of how much they earn, what they save if anything, and what they’re spending their money on over the course of one week.

Are you a spender, a saver or a splurger? We’re looking for readers who will keep a money diary for a week. If you’re interested send a mail to money@thejournal.ie. We would love to hear from you.

Each money diary is submitted by readers just like you. When reading and commenting, bear in mind that their situation will not be relatable for everyone, it is simply an account of a week in their shoes, so let’s be kind.

Last time around, we heard from a senior fund manager on €67K living and working in Luxembourg. This week, a digital marketing manager on €74K living in Dublin.

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I live in Dublin (originally from the west of Ireland), and I’m currently going through a divorce (no children). I’ve got a shared mortgage with my ex but I pay 100% of it and all the other household bills and maintenance costs.

My ex has his own house outside of Dublin, mortgage-free, and is living there. I work remotely full-time for a tech startup, and I travel abroad for work four to five times a year which I enjoy as it breaks up the routine.

My three rescue dogs keep me entertained (and exercised!) throughout the week. My financial priority at the moment is to save up a three-month emergency fund as well as prepare for the divorce expenses.

Occupation: Digital marketing manager

Age: 37

Location: Dublin City

Salary: €74,000

Monthly pay (net): €4,150 (after PRSA contribution)

Monthly expenses 

Transport: €40

Mortgage: €1,500

Income protection: €105

Household bills: €325 (on electricity, wifi, home insurance, mortgage protection, bins – no gas or oil)

Phone bill: €15

Health insurance: Paid by employer

Groceries: €400

Subscriptions: €30

Dogs (food, toys, medications): €150

Home loan: €150

Trade union: €20

Prescriptions: €100 (not covered by health insurance)

Savings: €500

Winter electricity: €75 (I don’t want the shock of a large bill in the winter, and I don’t expect there will be a government scheme to cover electricity costs this year, so I’m setting this aside each month)

Christmas + birthday gifts: €50

Clothing and shoes: €50

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Monday

8.00 am: Get up and let the dogs out. Take a shower, get myself ready for the day. Feed the dogs, and make a pot of green tea (I use a thermal teapot which means one kettle boiled = six mugs of tea, staying hot for about four hours). I don’t eat breakfast so I settle into work at my desk at 8:45am.

12.00 pm: Prepare my low calorie lunch – spinach and feta omelette with a side of homemade hummus and carrot sticks. In the past few years, stress has caused me to pile on weight and I’m focusing on losing it now. Working from home definitely helps to keep this under control as free snacks at the (optional) office are too easy to fall for.

5.00 pm: Sign out from work. Take two of my three dogs on a 6km walk (the oldest one isn’t always up for it). Thankfully it’s not raining!

7.00 pm: It’s Dad’s birthday soon so I Google a few ideas on what to get him but no decision yet.

8.00 pm: Prepare my low-calorie dinner – cauliflower and chickpea curry (oven baked), with marinated chicken skewers and a greek yoghurt garlic dip. I cook all my meals from scratch and I eat out once or twice per month at most (I never get takeaways). Stick on a TV series (currently watching The Bear on Disney+) while the dogs play outside.

9.30 pm: Prepare the dogs’ dinner. I follow the same feeding schedule as the kennels they stay in when I’m travelling, routine is important for them.

10.00 pm: Time for bed. I need nine hours of sleep so winding down from 10pm to 11pm is essential. I’m immersed in a great book at the moment, and get through a chapter before lights out.

Today’s total: €0.00

Tuesday

8.15 am: Get up, let the dogs out. Same morning routine as Monday except I decided to leave the shower until the evening. I start work at 9am.

12.30 pm: Very busy morning at work so lunch is a bit behind. Prepare my low-calorie lunch – leftover curry plus a low calorie bagel with quark (a fat-free cheese spread, high in protein; I make it taste good by adding dried chipotle peppers and chives).

5.00 pm: Sign out from work. Take all the dogs for a walk, 5km today. I want to make a salad later so I grab lettuce from the local shop (€1.39).

7.00 pm: Take a shower, then Facetime a friend for half an hour. Can’t believe we haven’t talked in over a month, but that’s how life goes.

8.00 pm: Prepare my low-calorie dinner – mixed green salad with tuna and feta, and another slim bagel with quark on the side.

8.30 pm: Remember a book that my Dad really wanted to read, so I ordered it online from Eason’s (€17.00). Watch some cooking videos on YouTube to get more inspiration for my meals.

9.30 pm: Prepare the dogs’ dinner, run the dishwasher and take a shower.

10.00 pm: Time for book and bed.

Today’s total: €18.39

Wednesday

8.15 am: Get up, let the dogs out. The youngest one has been restless during the night, so I check him over and notice a rash on his belly and a little swelling around the eyes and ears. Decide to keep a closer eye on him since he’s behaving normally otherwise. Make tea and get to work.

10.30 am: Dog is definitely having an allergic reaction as his eyes are very swollen. I ring the vet and they say I can walk in. I drop a note to my team that I’ll be back in half an hour, and head to the vet (luckily it’s just at the end of the street). Exam, antihistamine injection and antihistamine tablets cost €56.46. Poor fella looks really miserable but he’ll be OK. We’re not sure what caused it but most likely he ate something while out walking.

12.30 pm: Lunch time. Youngest dog is fast asleep but the swelling has started to come down, so I’m relieved. I make a low-calorie ‘smash burger’ which I saw on YouTube, with a side of hummus and carrot sticks. It’s very tasty, and makes you feel like you’re not on a diet.

5.30 pm: I add on the half hour I missed from my vet emergency earlier today. It’s pretty handy to start late/work late sometimes so I can coordinate on projects with my colleagues in the USA. I take two of the dogs for their walk (6km). The youngest is back to himself so all is well in the world again.

7.30 pm: We got caught in some rain and the park was a bit muddy, so I have to give the dogs a quick bath to get the dirt off their bellies and paws. I make the same dinner as yesterday to make sure the lettuce gets used. I hate wasting food, it’s just money down the drain!

8.30 pm: Group chat with friends suggests food and drinks on Sunday afternoon, and I sign up. I put the bins out for collection and see that I’ve built up a good bit of glass and clothes for recycling. I book a GoCar for two hours on Saturday afternoon to do a recycling spin (€22).

9.00 pm: Prepare the dogs’ dinner and watch the next episode of The Bear.

11.00 pm: Bed time.

Today’s total: €78.46

Thursday

7.30 am: Get up a bit earlier because I need to have a longer lunch break, so I shower, feed the dogs, make tea, and get started at 8.15am. There’s a work party in town tonight for a colleague who’s leaving, so I need to walk the dogs at lunchtime rather than after work.

12.00 pm: Make a spinach omelette filled with low-fat cheddar, onions, red peppers. Take the dogs for a walk (5km). I’m a bit hungry when I return so I have a tin of tuna as a snack. I top up my teapot and get back to work.

5.00 pm: Get ready for the night out, which is dinner and drinks in a city centre gastro pub (paid for by the company). I top up my Leap card (€20) and take the bus since it drops me almost directly outside the restaurant. I give the dogs some long-lasting treats as their dinner will be a bit late tonight and these kinds of chews keep them busy for a while.

10.00 pm: Back home on the bus. Feed the dogs and let them out for a while since they’ve been stuck indoors for the evening. It was good craic to spend time with the team, we don’t see each other often as we all work remotely.

Today’s total: €20.00

Friday

8.30 am: Bit of a late start to the day as I’m tired from yesterday. After the usual routine, I get stuck into work just after 9am. It’s payday today!

12.30 pm: Lunch of chicken skewers and greek yoghurt dip, with a portion of steamed broccoli. I order a Tesco delivery for tomorrow. I buy a full month’s worth of non-perishables, cleaning and personal hygiene goods every payday as it stops me from having to run into the local shop for missing items every few days, which can really add up (€257.36). I also order a full months’ worth of dog food, poop bags and treats from Petstop (€118.04). Keeping them on good quality grain-free food is a priority, and it’s also best to keep what they eat consistent. I set aside €150 each month for the dogs, and the leftover balance goes towards a squeaky toy or bouncy ball.

5.15 pm: Sign out from work. Take two of the dogs for a walk, 6km today.

7.30 pm: Update my monthly payday budget spreadsheet with today’s spend. Transfer my usual €500 to the credit union and put €200 towards my credit card balance (€600 left to pay after a holiday last month). I think about what additional costs I’m going to have for the month, and transfer those amounts to my bank savings account to ensure they’re covered in advance. I use the savings account as a way to mentally “pre-pay” upcoming known costs which are not every month. This month, I know I’ll need to get my hair done (€150), get a new tub of face cream (€55), replenish my perfume (€70), and get the three dogs their quarterly flea/tick/worm treatments at the vet (€130). I find it works best for me if I do as many of the “big” monthly expenses within a couple of days of payday so that I don’t come up short halfway through the month.

8.30 pm: Make a low calorie smash burger with green salad on the side, and go through YouTube to watch my favourite content creators’ new uploads.

9.30 pm: Feed the dogs, and give the youngest an extra brief 15-min walk since it’s a nice evening outside. Continue reading my book and am asleep around 11pm.

Today’s total: €605.40 spent / €500 to credit union / €405 into separate account for upcoming expenses = €1,510.40

Saturday

9.00 am: Weekend sleep in. Usual morning routine, then throw on a round of laundry and vacuum the house.

11.00 am: I volunteer every Saturday, as remote working can be a bit isolating at times. It’s also a way to stay in touch with the neighbours (I don’t do social media as I found it really bad for my mental health; I quit after the pandemic).

2.00 pm: Absolutely starving, forgot to bring something healthy to eat with me. I have a slim bagel with quark, steamed broccoli, and a few other random bits from the fridge so it’s a weird meal. Can’t wait for the groceries to get delivered later today so I can make something proper.

3.00 pm: Pick up the GoCar and do the recycling. I don’t use the full two-hour booking, but you never know with traffic on a Saturday.

4.30 pm: Take the dogs for their walk. Just 4km in distance today but they got lots of off-lead park time.

6.00 pm: Home to wait for the Tesco delivery. I cut the grass and weed the backyard.

8.30 pm: After putting away the groceries I make miso glazed salmon and stir fried veg, along with a glass of dry white wine.

9.30 pm: Feed dogs, finish watching some of the YouTube content I’d started earlier. Asleep by 10.30pm after a busy day.

Today’s total: €0.00

Sunday

8.00 am: Wake up refreshed after a great sleep. Check my messages and see that dinner with friends has been set for 4pm, so I make a mental note to ensure lunch is under my calorie limit so I can indulge a bit in the afternoon. I weigh myself in and am happy to see that I’ve lost two stone so far this year. No point weighing in every day as you only see the difference over longer periods of time, so it’s a good motivational tip.

8.30 am: Have fed the dogs and made my pot of tea. I stick on some music and catch up with different news websites across Ireland, UK and USA. I like keeping up with current affairs, politics and business trends.

11.00 am: Make a Caprese salad with low fat mozzarella and some basil from the garden, and take the dogs out for a long walk since I’ll be out for the afternoon/evening. We do 7km. It’s a lovely sunny day so I take my time.

2.00 pm: Phone call with Dad to check in. It goes a bit longer than I’d planned and I’m almost late for my afternoon outing.

4.00 pm: Early dinner with friends. Everyone’s been really busy all summer so it’s been hard to get together, and we have a proper catch up. I treat myself to pasta and cocktails (€48).

8.00 pm: Back home to let the dogs out to play in the garden. I crash on the couch in my pyjamas and continue my TV series.

9.00 pm: Feed the dogs, check my work calendar for morning meetings and mentally prepare for them. Open my book for a while and am asleep by 10.30 pm.

Today’s total: €48.00

Weekly subtotal: €1,675.25 (incl. €500 savings)

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What I learned –

  • My discipline in monthly budgeting is pretty good but I wish I didn’t have to be so strict. Separating was a big financial shock so I had to get a strong handle on my finances in the past year. I need to be careful or I risk not being in a position to take over the mortgage when we divorce. I may still lose the house as the bank might not agree that my income is sufficient. This is my biggest worry.
  • I didn’t save up properly for the recent holiday. I used my credit card and am now paying it off, which I’m sure costs me more in the long-run. I’ll have to change this habit.
  • Eating healthy costs a LOT more than eating regular meals. A bowl of cereal, pasta or rice, or a normal sandwich – these are so economical compared to salads, fish, fresh veggies etc. I’m lucky I can pay for it but not everyone can.
  • I could save more if I was even more strict. At the moment, if there’s leftover money at the end of the month, I put it towards additional payments on the home loan (it’s less than €2,000 now so I’m nearly there). The finance advice I’ve read is that paying down high interest loans and credit card debt is more important than saving more and carrying the loan for longer.
  • I’m 40% of the way towards the 3-months living costs emergency fund. I should reach 100% in under a year.
  • I’m worried I’m not paying enough into my PRSA but I’m afraid to commit more until I have my emergency fund saved. Financial advisors say that by age 40 I should have three times my salary in my pension. I’m nowhere near this!!! Do average Irish people really have that much set aside by age 40? We bought the house three years ago so everything went towards the deposit and basic repairs (a fixer upper was all we could afford). It’s depressing to always feel like you’re behind.

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    Mute Little Jim
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    Jun 27th 2013, 12:00 PM

    Disgraceful behavior.
    The orders should be asked for nothing, all properties should be confiscated and sold with proceeds going to the slaves, because that’s exactly what they were.
    Where’s Kenny with his tears now?

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    Mute Michael O'Connor
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    Jun 27th 2013, 11:00 PM

    Sorry, can’t do it. Bertie let them all off the hook, in writing, about ten years ago. You can easily check the records of that. I believe that has cost us about 1.3 billion so far. Good old Bertie, goes to mass every day does Bertie.

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    Mute richardmccarthy
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    Jun 28th 2013, 7:09 AM

    Bingo,the man with the ash on his forehead,i bet even that was paid for by the taxpayers.

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    Mute Little Jim
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    Jun 28th 2013, 11:21 AM

    Sorry, we can do it.
    Emergency legislation.
    That can be done overnight.

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    Mute Aireach
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    Jun 27th 2013, 11:58 AM

    Give them a TD’s salary and pension. They were forced to do more work than any of our dear politicians ever have.

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    Mute Dermot Lane
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    Jun 27th 2013, 12:57 PM

    The church needs to step up to the mark and pay its share, but you just know this wont happen even if it is overwhelmingly obvious that its the morally correct thing to do. Plus they can well afford it.

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    Jun 27th 2013, 11:11 PM

    In my opinion the catholic church should have their tax exemption revoked and all the money that is collected as tax is used to pay for all the atrocities committed by the church and facilitated by the state.

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    Mute Egg Mcmuffin
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    Jun 27th 2013, 10:27 PM

    Amazing how the struggle for justice seems to be transforming into the pursuit of money now.

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    Mute James Brown
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    Jun 27th 2013, 10:43 PM

    So Egg Mcmuffin, you’d be content with just an apology???

    These women were locked away for years for doing nothing, forced to work against their will, made huge profits for the so called religious orders & didn’t see a f**king red cent of it after all their hard work.

    These women deserve a hell of a lot more than this pathetic shower of sh!te in Government have offered them.

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    Mute Paul Wallace
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    Jun 27th 2013, 10:44 PM

    I heard on Rte radio one woman say “I’ve been offered 30,000 but what can you do with 30,000 these days” I couldn’t believe it !

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    Mute Kevin Cooney
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    Jun 27th 2013, 11:08 PM

    @ Paul – Compare that 30k with the 450k Mary Harney was awarded for the trauma suffered by an inference that she “maybe” an alcoholic by a media outlet to see the injustice of the offer/insult. In the eyes of the establishment normal people are virtually worthless. This appalling attitude has to change.

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    Mute Kerry Blake
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    Jun 27th 2013, 12:25 PM

    Seems the higher amounts will be paid off as a monthly pension rather then a lump sum. Seems the state is hoping to save some money.

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    Mute Pernickilshiousers
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    Jun 27th 2013, 12:04 PM

    Powerful and peaceful protest is what gets things done. These women have come so far on their own, they need our support. It does work!

    Want to see people power and peaceful protest in action, not lying down and taking their beating.

    Yesterday a group of Ogra FF’ers tried to hijack the SNA protest. Banners and T-shirts for a photo opportunity.

    The parents saw right through it and ran them off, not before several party activists got in to shouting matches with the mothers.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=689393737752688&set=vb.100000462053828&type=2&theater

    These people are standing up to the worst in our society in a very small way. Holding and forcing people to respect others, respect the Irish people, respect our children rather than force them to emigrate as all my own had to.

    Look at the arrogance and contempt on their faces as they look at the parents.

    What will you do to day or will you lie back and let people like that rule and ruin your future as they have our past and the lives of these women or will you wait your turn.

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    Mute Shane McGettrick
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    Jun 27th 2013, 1:10 PM

    Cheers for the link, very interesting viewing. Should serve to burnish up the brass neck of the next generation of ffers, I’m sure they’ll get good use from them. Looks to me that they had no intention of moving until the guy in the shirt sleeves landed over, sure why would the opinions of the sheeple matter, right?

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    Jun 27th 2013, 1:23 PM

    They told people to clear a space so that a photo could be taken when Micheal Martin came over.

    If they even pretended that they were there for more than the photo shoot it would have been ok. They didn’t were rude to people and it turned in to a PR disaster.

    What genius think that having a go at the mother of a Special Needs Kid, at an SNA cut is politically smart.

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    Mute Uncle Mort
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    Jun 27th 2013, 12:15 PM

    What’s the bottom line for these women? How much will be creamed off before they see a penny of this money?

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    Mute Michael O' Keeffe
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    Jun 27th 2013, 5:08 PM

    This so called scheme pay victims in instalments. And therefore the Government will save money if they die. The average age of these abuse victims is 68yrs old, many ill and frail. This Government have No Morals or values. How low can they go???

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    Jun 27th 2013, 1:22 PM

    Catholic Church and State hand in glove in acting the boxxocks. Is anyone really surprised?

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    Jun 27th 2013, 11:12 PM

    If they got 100,000 each they still wouldnt be happy

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    Jun 27th 2013, 11:19 PM

    And nor should they be as that only represents one years salary for a TD. Compensation has to hurt the offender to prevent future crimes. The equivalent of a TD’s salary per time served in these prisons would be fair.

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    Jun 28th 2013, 6:33 AM

    Compo compo compo

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    Jun 28th 2013, 2:05 PM

    Why should they be ‘happy’, if you were enslaved, tortured, abused and abandoned, by the people who were there to love and care for you how would you feel?

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    Jun 28th 2013, 12:07 AM

    I do believe that many of these women had been misled into thinking that they were in for lottery type money. The overall compensation offered does not seem unreasonable and it should be about providing some physical comforts for the recipients in their least days rather than building a nest egg for a future generation as one of the women complained about.

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    Mute Keith Dickinson
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    Jun 27th 2013, 11:56 PM

    I wonder if their deal is a good as the one the haemophiliacs got? Seems to be shaping up the same. Wait long enough and the problem goes away. Hard to be ‘proud to be irish’ when you see what the government does and the people think. Over and over and over again! I wonder whats next?

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    Jun 28th 2013, 12:55 AM

    for many of ‘the haemophiliacs’ (nice) the ‘deal’ included a lonely, painful, untimely death. your comparison is simplistic and disrespectful to all parties.

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    Jun 28th 2013, 12:55 AM

    for many of ‘the haemophiliacs’ (nice) the ‘deal’ included a lonely, painful, untimely death. your comparison is simplistic and disrespectful to all parties.

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    Jun 28th 2013, 1:58 PM

    Firstly I was comparing the Tactic used not the suffering endured. But as you mentioned it, with the greatest respect to the Hemophiliacs, no-one has a monopoly on suffering. It is impossible to measure the impact of slavery, physical and mental abuse suffered by those young girls. How many suicides, broken homes, tragedies were as a consequence. And finally the pain inflict on hemophiliacs and there families was we are told accidental. The pain and suffering on the young girls was deliberate, intentional and supported by the state with the general approval of the church going god fearing population. I do not think my comparison is in any way disrespectful or simplistic.

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    Jun 27th 2013, 11:41 PM

    Justice for the Magdalene Survivors , dont give up the fight for proper Justice . The decent people of Ireland are with you all the way , stay strong & never ever give up

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    Mute Chris Mcdonnell
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    Jun 27th 2013, 11:45 PM

    Justice or money?

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    Jun 27th 2013, 11:58 PM

    As Justice is unlikely given the governments complicity and the churches power. I think money is the better option. Don’t you?

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    Jun 28th 2013, 12:52 AM

    Bailing out the banks bailing out the church it all lands on our shoulders and our children’s, ridiculous that with all the money of the Catholic Church the Vatican etc that they are not contributing to the hideous crimes committed against these poor women

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    Jun 28th 2013, 2:00 AM

    Coming soon to a mass near you…a special collection for “The Magdalene fund”.

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    Jun 28th 2013, 5:39 AM

    The proceeds of same would probably go towards the RCC’s legal costs in denying any financial or any other responsibility towards these women. A truly sick and twisted mentality is at the heart of the RCC.

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    Jun 28th 2013, 7:39 AM

    The taxpayer is footing the bill here and they have their apology along with a staggered 100k, pensions from the state regardless of current financial status, medical card and extra medical services excetera. Time to get off the stage while sympathy still exists me thinks.

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    Jun 28th 2013, 1:40 PM

    As sorry as I am for these women I can’t help thinking its money over justice they want.

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    Jun 28th 2013, 7:39 AM

    Maybe People should protest at church gates about this ? They should be footing this bill ….

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    Jun 28th 2013, 1:56 AM

    Applying a multiplier to the proses sum of 3.75 would not be generous but it would be getting into the right ball park.

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    Jul 1st 2013, 1:23 AM

    Some of the survivers worked up to twenty years and are treated the same as ladies who worked ten years or less this seems unfair.

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    Mute Theresa Wardley Was Odonnell
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    Jun 28th 2013, 9:12 PM

    what about the women who have died, i have just recently found out my grandmother was in peacock lane laundry, cork all her life, she worked there for over 40 odd years, she died at the age of 81 in 1996, in the residential part.

    my father did not know his mother, he was in artane from the age of 8 until his 16 birthday, before that he was in an orphanage and then fostered out. what kind of life did he have, NONE. His mother is now buried with four other magdalene laundry workers, . we cannot claim for her as there is a cut off date of 19 feb 2013.

    I cant imagine what my dad and grandma went through, but any money given would help in giving my grandmother her grave and headstone somewhere my dad can finally call his family. one that he never new

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    Oct 17th 2013, 6:40 PM

    Why is redress taking so long to sort it will be nearly a year soon. They seem to be keeping us
    on a piece of string.

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