ValueIreland.com

ValueIreland.com is the only truly independent consumer watchdog in Ireland today.  Our aim is to provide consumer related news, opinion, research, resources, tips, links and warnings that will assist and benefit Irish consumers.

ValueIreland.com was founded by Diarmuid MacShane in 2003 and continues to be the primary internet based information resource for Irish consumers. Click here to read more on the History of ValueIreland.com.

Diarmuid MacShane is an IT professional who works an a Project Manager in the Financial Services industry in Ireland. Mr. MacShane is a former director and council member of the Consumer Association of Ireland Council, resigning in November 2008 because of inactivity within the Association for the previous 2 years and an inability to properly carry out director functions due to secrecy within the Association board and management.

ValueIreland.com operates a Privacy Policy, a Comments Policy and is a supporter of the 10 Rules of Online Customer Respect.

News & Opinion

ValueIreland.com is updated daily during the week with news and opinion related to consumer affairs in Ireland. These updates are available directly to your e-mail inbox, or via our RSS Feed subscription service.

Tips & Advice

On a regular basis, ValueIreland.com will publish articles in its TopTips series. Under the tagline of “A euro saved is a euro earned”, these TopTips will save you money every time you spend your hard earned cash.

Research

From time to time, ValueIreland.com will publish research that it carries out in the interests of Irish consumers. On many occasions, this research is that which will not be seen elsewhere. The research will be regularly updated as and when the research conditions and scenarios dictate.

Links

The ValueIreland.com links page is a key resource for Irish consumers. It provides consistently updated links of online internet resources of relevance to Irish consumers.

Independence

ValueIreland.com does not receive any financial resources from any organisation. It does not receive government funding, nor does it receive fees or expenses from government quangos or state agencies. ValueIreland.com does not accept advertising or sponsorship from any source. All expenses required to manage this website are funded from personal finances of Diarmuid MacShane.

ValueIreland.com believes that to accept any such financial assistance would endanger its complete editorial independence and its ability to best watch out for the interests of Irish consumers in the face of all challenges – government, business, retailers, quangos and other supposed independent consumer organisations.

ValueIreland.com does present a number of Google Adsense panels in order to gain some small earnings in order to partially offset the costs of running the website - domain costs and hosting fees. These content of these adverts are outside of our control, and the presence of any particular advert anywhere on the website in one of these panels does not necessarily indicate a recommendation from ValueIreland.com.