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Beechwoodspark wrote: »

These ppl shouldn’t be opening bank accounts or taking out loans if they can’t deal with the charges

https://currentaccount.ie/support/fees-charges/

Do people not understand that ALL current accounts are a money management product that must be paid for? Credit Union is the most suitable for many of these but they must understand that a wee little portion of income should be put in a separate savings account.

Why doesn't RTÉ, as public service broadcaster, do a proper BASIC consumers TV or Radio Show, one hour per week, explaining the very simple things for people who are unlikely be dealing with such advanced issues as mortgages. For people with fairly limited education, literacy, or who failed to pay attention to any of these things in life for any number of issues. They could have a question and answers part. A much extended version of Conor Pope on Darcy. Run a good season of it every year, call it "Starting from Scratch" or something. Not instead of usual more complex consumer issues, but as a basis for the minimal understanding needed to conduct your life, in easy to understand, good humoured and entertaining format. Working in the libraries we had lots of customers without the very basics, and life is very difficult and frustrating for them. Some are perfectly intelligent but have had specific issues like dyslexia, or/& a difficult background, others have a below average general IQ. I always remember one lady in the matter category who found life very frustrating as she knew she was living in a world that others found much easier to understand and would ask for books best suited her to acquire new knowledge. Sometimes I would show a book aimed at children but tell her I and many others used it for learning something that was absolutely new to me, so as not to insult her. We would arrange a shelf of some books as "Quick Reads" and diplomatically guide certain people to them explaining that "a lot of people don't have the time to be reading long books, these can be great for a little read as you're having a cup of tea".

As a public service broadcaster RTÉ needs better to cater for people who grapple with the world, it completely fails to do so and folk end up phoning Joe Duffy in desperation and he only serves to confuse these folk further. At the very least he should have likes of Conor Pope as a link up so that when such a call comes in he comes on and explains the very basics, seeing as Duffy seems totally incapable of doing so.

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Cat, wat was yer Brindin O’Cardle dig at me earlier about and dat? Spill de beans.

He is a bona fide member of de society of de Mensa.

Actually I remember when working on relief duty in Terenure Library a whole row of houses (well not a row... in visual driveways an dat) happened to have a group of adults all in Mensa, and their children were deemed "special". When one of these mothers cane up to me in de junior library (bear in mind this was de very early 80s) with a 3 year old and 3 month old babe in arms she told me they were both "special". I sympathised with her, and got a nasty "How dare you" retort, "I mean all our family are individuals of extraordinarily high intelligence and allowed by the City & Co Librarian to borrow double the normal number of library books." I remarked that I had not realised there was such testing for young babies, and apologised for my ignorance, and of course she demanded to see my superior. The latter told me to take my coffee break and later told me she could see my blood pressure rising and that it would rise further when the neighbouring families would be popping in, as they all tended to, one after the other, same time every afternoon. A whole group of neighbours on a particular road near Bushy Park all belonging to Mensa had applied to the head honcho of the libraries to get special family dispensations to borrow any number of books, never mind that the books were the usual stuff borrowed by any other Joe Soap. The baby was to be allowed any number of Delia Smith cookery books etc.