So you are moving overseas and you want to take your car or motorcycle with you. Maybe it’s a vintage vehicle dear to your heart, or maybe it’s new and you can’t stand parting with it so soon. Whatever type of car you want to ship overseas, if it means enough to you to have Read More >
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Shipping Love Around the World
Is someone you love living overseas? Maybe you are the parent of a student doing a year abroad or a young person who has gone in search of job opportunities and adventure. Maybe your best from way back in national school just accepted a contract to work overseas. Maybe that brother or sister who has Read More >
Making a Big Move with Little Children
Moving overseas can be scary for adults, but an international move can be downright terrifying for children. Remember, they don’t understand the world the same way we do. Children don’t understand logistics or distance or finances. They can struggle to see how moving to a different country is not like a holiday. Expect to field Read More >
Heading Home for Christmas?
There’s no place like home for the holidays. It’s a wonderful feeling to be surrounded with your nearest and dearest back home enjoying your family and cultural traditions. The whole world agrees, and that’s why most airports are a complete nightmare to navigate in late December. You can take a few steps to make your Read More >
Where Can You Get Less Work and More Weekend?
Sure, many people leave Ireland in search of work. That has been the case both historically and recently. But that doesn’t mean we are nation of workaholics roaming the globe in search of the opportunity to toil day and night. All work and no play not only makes us dull; it makes us sick. Leisure Read More >
Going Dutch – Netherlands
Irish citizens have a fairly easy time relocating to other EU countries. Historically, we’ve headed to other English-speaking countries, but with the ease of immigrating to another EU country makes a move to the continent more tempting. What can you expect if you go Dutch and move to the Netherlands? Yes, people often speak English, Read More >
Your Grandparents’ Move to Britain
Long before Ryanair, your grandparents found cheap seats to Britain on the mail boats. Their experience wasn’t totally unlike ours. They didn’t have assigned seating either, and it could be a bit rough. But the other options were too dear. Instead of landing at their real destination, they too arrived at a port some distance Read More >
Surviving Your International Move Solo
Moving overseas as a carefree singleton is certainly less complicated than moving with a partner and children, but it isn’t easy. Going home alone after a day of navigating a new culture can be a very lonely experience, even with social media shrinking the distance to Read More >
Is Moving to the UK for Work Still an Option?
The chief Brexit negotiator for the European Union will be in Ireland this week to meet with government officials here as plans progress for the UK to leave the EU. Next month, the Taoiseach will chair an-island dialogue on the impact of Brexit. And in Northern Ireland, a broad coalition of groups is bringing a Read More >
A Very Quick History of Irish Immigration to the USA
The number of Americans claiming Irish ancestry is now larger than the number of people in Ireland. The journey from Ireland to the United States of American is a well-worn path, and the history of immigration to the USA from the time of that state’s founding to the present day is reflected in the experiences Read More >