Aideen Finnegan
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first heard Apr 2026
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More than a third of Irish households have received at least one inheritance or substantial gift at some point.
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That is set to rise.
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With our ageing population, Ireland is in for a transfer of intergenerational wealth worth hundreds of billions of euro in the coming decades.
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I'm Aideen Finnegan and this is Better With Money from the Irish Times.
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I'm joined today by our deputy business editor, Dominic Coyle.
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Hi, Dominic.
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And Tria McGuinness, a trust and estate practitioner and partner with the law firm BHSM.
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Hi, Tria.
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Hi there.
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Tell me a little bit about what you do, Tria.
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Dominic, you do the Irish Times question and answer column and people tell you all their deep, dark secrets in there.
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and I actually feel a bit funny talking about it as well because there's sort of an inequality piece baked into the just the concept of it you know the way wages and the cost of living is going in Ireland it sort of feels like god do my parents assets are
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matter more than what I earn now, you know?
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And I do wonder how many people come from families that are able to pass on substantial assets to their children.
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We do have some figures, thanks to the Central Statistics Office.
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They actually have an intergenerational Transfer of Wealth 2020 study, and it shows, unsurprisingly, that it's people aged 55 plus who inherited the lion's share.
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One in four, and it's actually 27% of households, headed by someone under 35, had benefited from an inheritance or a major gift.
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But as I outlined in the intro, that's likely to rise.
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And to put it crudely, boomers hold most of the wealth in the country and they're going to be passing it on in the coming decades.
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Good body stockbrokers conducted research last year showing the over 65s have accumulated 295 billion euro.
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