Monthly Archives: February 2007

European Consumer Centre, Dublin

The European Consumer Centre, Dublin has a decent monthly newsletter containing consumer type information with a sometimes European slant, such as your [...]

No response yet from the National Consumer Agency

I asked the National Consumer Agency back here as to why they weren’t presenting a Scam Awareness Month this month in Ireland [...]

Creative Customer Support

Having slagged off a few companies here recently over their poor service, I suppose I should do the “fair and balanced” thing [...]

Grocery Prices – gone up or gone down?

There was much coverage this morning in the Irish Examiner quoting from a CSO report about the price of groceries since the [...]

The Consumer Protection Bill

Lots of coverage recently, mostly negative, about the chances of our new Consumer Protection Bill being passed through the Dail before the [...]

February is Scam Awareness Month in the UK

I was reading this article today about mobile phone retailers being rapped for giving out difficult to get discounts, and for having [...]

Take some money back from Allied Irish Banks (legally!)

Do you have a tracker mortgage with Allied Irish Banks (AIB)? Have you seen that they’re dropping their interest rates for tracker [...]

Cheap flights from Knock to New York

Lots of hype last week (including here) about cheap flights from Knock Airport to New York or Boston with the FlyGlobeSpan airline. [...]

Shoppers Rights Cards from National Consumer Agency

Over 1.2 million Shoppers’ Rights Cards were distributed to Irish households by the National Consumer Agency (NCA) from January 2006 It’s over [...]

30% price inflation in Kilkenny Shop Restaurant

Working in the Dublin 2 area, I sometimes like to take a late lunch and head to the Kilkenny Shop on Nassau [...]