Rob Carrick's Reader: Free stuff on your birthday. Rob Carrick Personal Finance Columnist. Published October 19, 2011. This article was published more than 11 years ago.

Rob Carrick rounds up the best in personal finance reading on the Web. ... The High Cost Of Free Stuff. An analysis of how supposedly free stuff can sometimes cost us bigtime. ETF Pile-On.

Carrick-on-Shannon is a burst of life in Ireland's midlands. Easily accessible by car, train and bus, it's an ideal base for exploring the West of Ireland.