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Sending a child to college costs an average of €11,102 this year. Here is the smarter way to pay

College costs a lot of money, so start planning now

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#2818
First seen
26 Aug 2026, 05:13 UTC
Last checked
26 Aug 2026, 18:14 UTC
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Publisher layer

Recorded article metadata

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Publisher
The Irish Times
Country
Ireland
Source published
26 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Joanne Hunt
Section
Not supplied
Source-supplied excerpt
College costs a lot of money, so start planning now
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    Revision observed

    Sending a child to college costs an average of €11,102 this year. Here is the smarter way to pay

    College costs a lot of money, so start planning now

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    Capture SHA-256
    d6328c4c512a...becc22
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    Initial capture

    The smarter way to pay for college

    College costs a lot of money, so start planning now

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Publisher categories are copied from source metadata. Machine signals report observable wording or format and do not determine truth, intent, ethics, or wrongdoing.

  • machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
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Evidence layer

Capture provenance

Capture ID
#2666
Observed
26 Aug 2026, 06:59 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
658,364 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt