Cara · Ireland
This week in Irish money
The numbers that moved, what’s coming, and what each one means for you. Then Cara does the job: the quotes, the retention offer, the claim.
What moved
- Heating oil up 3.1% this week, to €1.58 a litreThe average price of heating oil in Ireland rose 3.1% in the week to 19 October: a 900-litre fill now costs about €1,418, €43 more than a week earlier.
- Electricity prices up 8.1% in a year to September 2026The CSO's consumer price figures show household electricity up 8.1% on a year earlier in September 2026.
- Heating oil down 5.2% this week, to €1.49 a litreThe average price of heating oil in Ireland fell 5.2% in the week to 5 October: a 900-litre fill now costs about €1,339, €73 less than a week earlier.
- Electricity prices up 8.1% in a year to August 2026The CSO's consumer price figures show household electricity up 8.1% on a year earlier in August 2026.
Coming up
- ECB rate decisionECB & mortgages →
- Pay & File deadline (ROS)Tax back
- ECB rate decisionECB & mortgages →
- ECB rate decisionECB & mortgages →
Every tool
- Heating oil prices today →What a fill costs you now, how that compares with last winter, and three local quotes by email.
- What the October price rises cost you →Your bill after your supplier's rise, and Cara asks them for the retention offer.
- Budget 2027: what it means for you →Your take-home pay now, and your own Budget 2027 number by email on the night.
- Budget 2027 for home buyers: what changed →Help to Buy, stamp duty, Rent a Room, mortgage interest relief, First Home and the tax bands, before and after.
- Rent a Room: the homes where a lodger covers half the mortgage →Every 3+ bed home for sale, and the share of its repayment a lodger covers under the new Rent a Room limit, by area.
- ECB rates and your mortgage →What the next ECB decision does to your repayment, and whether switching pays.
- Tax back: what you may be owedRent, medical, working from home and unused credits, four years back. Coming soon.
- When your broadband promo endsThe price jump after year one, and Cara asks for the renewal offer. Coming soon.
- Is your car insurance renewal fair?Your renewal against the market, and quotes through an authorised broker. Coming soon.
- Storm warnings and what to do afterThe live warning for your county, and the insurance claim put together afterwards. Coming soon.