Who makes this

One person

My name is Arun Saseendran. I moved to Ireland from India, worked out the PPSN, the tenancy, the emergency tax and the mortgage arithmetic the slow way, and built this because the answers existed and were scattered across eleven official sites, none of which would do the sum for me.

I research and write every page here. Where a page says it was reviewed, I am the person who read it against the sources listed on it, on the date shown.

What I am not

I am not a solicitor, an accountant, a tax adviser, a mortgage broker or an immigration adviser, and nothing here is advice from one. This is not a limitation I am apologising for — it is the boundary the whole site is built inside.

What that means in practice: every consequential statement here is traceable to a named public body — Revenue, the Residential Tenancies Board, Immigration Service Delivery, the Central Statistics Office, the Central Bank, Citizens Information — and the page shows you which, and when it was last checked. Where a question turns on your particular circumstances rather than on a rule, the page says so and names the body that decides, rather than guessing on your behalf.

No page here has been reviewed by a professional adviser. If one ever is, that page will say who reviewed it and when.

How a number gets onto a page

Figures are never typed into prose. All 219 of them live in one typed data layer, each carrying the source it came from, the period it governs, who it applies to, and the date it was last checked against that source. Every page reads from there, so a figure cannot be current on one page and stale on another.

Rules get the same treatment. 20 consequential claims — a permission, a fee, a deadline, an order of operations — are held the same way, with the date the rule took effect kept separate from the date I checked it. The build refuses to ship a page that states one of them without citing its source, and refuses a page claiming to have been reviewed before the rule it states came into force. Both of those gates exist because both of those failures happened here first. The editorial method goes through it in full.

Where AI is used, and where it is not

Drafting and editing, yes, and pages that were drafted that way say so. Deciding what is true, no. Every figure and every rule on this site was read off a primary source by a person before it was published, and no source list here was generated.

How this is paid for

Nothing, at the time of writing. There are no advertisements, no affiliate links, no referral fees and no sponsored pages anywhere on the site. If that changes, advertising will be labelled as advertising, it will never appear between a calculator's inputs and its result, and no commercial relationship will ever change what a calculator returns or what a page concludes. That commitment is worth exactly what it costs me to keep, so when there is money involved this page will name who is paying.

Your inputs are not the product either: calculators run entirely in your browser and the numbers you type are never transmitted anywhere. The privacy notice is specific about this.

When I get something wrong

I do. Two errors reached readers in the first week: a page said the spouse of a General Employment Permit holder could not work, which stopped being true on 15 May 2024, and a page said public inpatient care carried a nightly charge, which stopped being true on 17 April 2023.

Both are corrected. Both corrections are recorded in the changelog at the foot of the page that carried them, saying what was wrong and what replaced it — corrections are not quietly edited away here. Both also produced a build gate so that class of error cannot ship again, which is the part that matters more than the apology.

If something here is wrong, tell me: info@inireland.life. Say which page and what you believe the right answer is. A correction with a source attached gets fixed the same day.

The three parts

• In Ireland — Practical, sourced answers about moving to, living in and settling in Ireland.
• Work in Ireland — Salaries, tax, permits and rights for working in Ireland.
• Buying a Home in Ireland — Mortgages, stamp duty, schemes and the real cost of buying in Ireland.

Same publisher, same data layer, same rules. Split by host because the questions are genuinely different: what living here costs, what a job here pays, and what buying here takes.