Monthly Archives: February 2008

Whistleblowing – a follow up

I wrote a piece last week about whistleblowing, and it not really being in our nature as Irish people. A post here [...]

NCA Grocery Price Survey – Nothing New

The NCA have launched their new grocery price survey today – their press release is here. The headline of the release is [...]

Broadband Penetration – what do the published numbers really mean?

There’s lots of comment and reportage around recently about broadband penetration within Ireland, and how poor we might be compared to the [...]

Do you have alternative numbers for these companies?

I posted this on the SayNoTo1890 blog yesterday. I received an e-mail earlier yesterday asking for alternative landline numbers for a few [...]

Is it plagiarism if you copy and paste your own article?

Charlie Weston today has a strangely familiar article about AIB reintroducing their 7% regular savings account having previously reduced it to 3%. [...]

Could Bertie Ahern be impeached?

I had a train of thoughts this morning that eventually led to this question above. Do we have the processes and facilities [...]

Consumer Association of Ireland is looking for new members

The Consumer Association of Ireland has this week started a new recruitment campaign to attract new members. You may have heard the [...]

A couple of short comments…

I’ve started using the StatCounter product for tracking visitors to this blog. It’s been great fun for the past week seeing where [...]

Useless Regulators – Another new one – I’m losing track

Thanks to Tom Raftery for this one. He’s referring to an Irish Independent article – Internet tsar to make children’s surfing safer. [...]

European Consumer Centre – Online Disputes Resolution Service

From the ECC Newsletter for February 2008: I read somewhere that you are now offering an ODR service? What is ODR and [...]