Monthly Archives: March 2008

Value Ireland Takes a Break

Below was the last post for a week or so. I have much higher priorities at the moment which must take precedence [...]

ECC Dublin – Consumer query of the month

If you haven’t done so already, it’s worth subscribing to the ECC Dublin Consumer Monthly e-bulletin – do so here. Their Consumer [...]

Stop Wasting Your Money, from Conor Pope

Having just finished Twenty Majors The Order of the Phoenix Park, I’m moving onto another book by a blogger. I’ll leave the [...]

Bad Law is hindering the National Consumer Agency

According to the Labour Party it is anyway, and it seems quite likely that the reason why the garage in Limerick who [...]

Government Waste: €560k spent on Govt St Patrick’s day trips

Wednesday March 12th, 2008, from Cian McCormack in RTE This year Ministers will jet around the world representing Ireland for St Patrick’s [...]

Another consumer website bites the dust

It looks like another independent Irish consumer website has bitten the dust and gone the way of many before it. From their [...]

Days Hotel Galway offering some value for money?

I posted last week as a follow up to the publicity about Galway being the most expensive place to stay in a [...]

March 15th, European Consumer Day

Blink, and you might miss it. According to this Europa – Consumer Affairs website, the following are the activities planned for European [...]

Mary Harney has at least one fan somewhere in Cork

The useless NCA are at it again (or not, if you’re a consumer)

We’re told that we should be encouraged when a powerless regulator like the NPSRA actually does get it’s powers. Because then, apparently, [...]