MH, that's interesting and confusing as they said at the interview they would offer a UK contract but we need to open an account in Eire as the NI contributions would be paid in the UK as the " base of work" and the rest of the tax would be dealt with in Eire under a DTA agreement.. anyway as no UK bases are available for DEC its rather pointless at this stage and certainly not worth considering as a retirement option for 4 years, the idea is to work less for more not more for less..