The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast: The nine financial questions everyone should be able to answer

Caitriona Redmond discusses financial literacy, motherhood penalties and the essential questions to ask about your personal finances

Caitriona Redmond on the nine financial questions everyone should be able to answer.

For a nation obsessed with money, we don’t like talking about our personal finances.

Women can be left in particularly difficult circumstances later in life because of financial penalties around motherhood and child-rearing – and tackling that begins with becoming more financially literate.

Irish Examiner consumer columnist Caitriona Redmond is guest editor of a special money edition of Weekend Magazine this week, ahead of the Budget.

On today’s episode of the Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast, she goes through the nine financial questions everyone should be able to answer.

Covering everything from takeaway coffee to ‘running away money’, this is an essential starting point for anyone hoping to get to grips with their finances.

Check out Saturday’s Irish Examiner Weekend Magazine or subscribe to IrishExaminer.com to read the special money edition.