Monthly Archives: July 2009

Boycotting businesses – sharing via Twitter @iboycott?

I recently noticed a particular new follower of @valueireland on Twitter – someone called “Craig Fleischmann”. His bio was interesting as it [...]

Grocery special offer web pages – hopefully grocers will do better

You’ll probably have seen on many consumer related websites recently the growing listing of the special offers web pages that are updated [...]

Grocery Shopping – an alternative to your shopping list

I came across this article from the Salt Lake Tribue a couple of weeks ago – Cheap Chick: Shopping for bargains with [...]

Bloggers comments to fall under advertising standards?

There was a story recently on the Consumerist website (US based) where it was referring to suggestions that the comments of bloggers [...]

Another readers question about Ryanair website advertising

Irish News of the World May, 2009 Diarmuid MacShane Question: I was on the Ryanair website recently where I saw flights advertised [...]

Mobile phone costs, top ups, and offers and gaming CallCosts.ie

In a recent article for the Irish News of the World, I was looking at the cost of sending texts. As I’ve [...]

Bord Gais Electricity Switching Problems

I know there’s been some coverage in the media about the delays on the part of Bord Gais Energy in handing the [...]

Tips for Cheaper Home Insurance

From our original ValueIreland.com Tips pages, here are some top tips which should help you get cheaper home insurance compared to what [...]

How to identify a clocked car

A little later than I intended, here is our Value Ireland Top Tips on how you might be able to identify if [...]

How to Complain

We Irish are terrible at complaining. It’s not in our nature. Well, at least complaining directly. Much of the time, we are [...]