Of all the places to be a little more sensitive than most when it comes to the problems caused to southern Irish [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
My bank is ripping me off with my mortgage rate
This e-mail came through last week regarding someone who’d fixed their mortgage rate last July and now feel they are overpaying:
I dont [...]
The Sun supports Irish consumers – sort of, maybe
This e-mail arrived in the ValueIreland.com inbox a couple of weeks ago.
Seems the Sun newspaper has decided to champion the consumer in [...]
The Internet Can Save you Bundles
Irish News of the World
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Diarmuid MacShane
The Internet Can Save you Bundles
The past 6 months have seen some amazing online [...]
The trouble with debt, and some ways out
Irish News of the World
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Diarmuid MacShane
The trouble with debt, and some ways out
With all the talk recently about the [...]
The word “from” – fear or favour?
What do you think when you see the word “from” in an advert? Flights from. Hotels from. Tickets from. Specials from.
What’s your [...]
Overcharged by the Revenue. That’s a new one!
There’s a form called the P21 Balancing Certificate that you can request from the Revenue. I wrote about this previously here. Basically, [...]
More special offer innovation from Insomnia
You really have to hand it to Insomnia the coffee shop for their current marketing campaigns. They’re currently on my boycott list, [...]
Traffic numbers for Dublin – are they telling us a different story?
There was an article a couple of weeks ago in the Irish Times that repeated a story from 6 or 7 months [...]
Mobile phone costs set to fall, in 3 years!
Mobile Phone companies drop their costs – There was good news last week when the main three mobile phone companies announced that [...]
