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O2 Grafton Street – 60 minutes for a 10 minute transaction

Recently, I spent nearly an hour in one of the infamous O2 stores on Grafton Street in Dublin. My Nokia E51 had [...]

1890 / 1850 / 0818 Frequently Asked Questions

Based on some fairly regular search queries bringing people to ValueIreland.com, I thought I’d answer some of the questions that people are [...]

Making money from “thin value” in the zombieconomy

I was reading an article from the Harvard Business Blog recently that made me think a bit about why some things are [...]

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 to Poland for €22.79, [...]

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 [...]

Mobile Broadband – Options and prices examined

Irish News of the World
May, 2009
Diarmuid MacShane
Broadband on the Move
In doing some research recently, I came across the mind boggling fact that [...]

Can NTL give me free upgrades I don’t want and charge to downgrade?

Last week I received this e-mail from a ValueIreland.com reader complaining about a problem that I’ve only recently begun to follow up [...]

How to understand your texting options

Irish News of the World
May, 2009
Diarmuid MacShane
Text Message Confusion
Do you know how many text messages you send each month? How much is [...]

80% of people still use fixed line phone at home

That was the interesting stat in a press release I received last week. The research was carried out by BT and I’ve [...]

SayNoTo1890.com in Irish Times Pricewatch

Following on from a story in the previous weeks edition, Conor Pope referenced SayNoTo1890.com in his Pricewatch column on Monday May 18th.
The [...]