Monthly Archives: August 2007

Own brand Tesco apparently cheaper than our Lidl/Aldi comparison

This is part of a letter to todays Irish Independent from John Kenny in Dublin – the web page is here. Regrettably, [...]

Saving Money on Electricity Usage

Just to follow on a bit from the VI Savings Plan and the money making scheme below, a couple of months ago [...]

More First Active Issues

It was pointed out to me yesterday that there’s a whole thread on www.askaboutmoney.com at the moment regarding peoples problems with another [...]

Easy money?

It’s a long time ago now since we published our VI Savings Plan – a simple way of saving a little extra [...]

Another business losing my custom today

A couple of months ago I decided to set up a regular savings account with First Active. I had been planning on [...]

How Rabodirect keep their customers

They just don’t respond to requests to close their accounts. Last May, I sent a request to Rabobank to have my savings [...]

Hotel prices in Galway

Speaking of heading to Galway, we stayed in the Days Hotel on the Dublin Road. The room rates were the cheapest we [...]

Irish Rail Customer Service

Credit where credit’s due – fair play to Irish Rail last Friday. I was on the train heading to Leixlip to meet [...]

Dodgy Drivers

I was driving back from Galway last night after the Connaught v South Africa game. (I’d like to post a report of [...]

Overcharging Ireland, again

Another, and if I’m not mistaken, the last remaining Irish bank has now come out and admitted that it too has overcharged [...]