Yesterday was World Consumers Day. Personally, I wouldn’t have known about it except for someone forwarded to me a Consumers Association of [...]
Tag Archives: Consumers Association of Ireland (CAI)
Consumers Association Chief Executive advocates buying British, not Irish
I had to read this recent story in the Evening Herald, Lidl bargain sets Irish stores meaty challenge, a few times before [...]
World Cup Play Off Flights Uproar – ignore the grandstanding!
Following a close second in the pointless and non-newsworthy headlines stakes, we saw this beauty last Tuesday “Shameless rip-off as airlines hike [...]
Survey shocker – groceries still more expensive down south!
The shocker is that people are still spending time and money on this kind of survey. This newspaper report on a report [...]
Do you know what the Dolceta Project is?
Dolceta is an online consumer education website, or the Development of Online Consumer Education Tools for Adults. According to the website:
Consumer Education [...]
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 [...]
Consumer News Weekend Short Stack
A few items for the weekend – hope it’s nicer wherever you are. Sunny south east, ahem!
ValueIreland.com milestone – It passed unnoticed [...]
Grocery Prices – the Australian situation and current controversy
There is an interesting controversy breaking in the consumer affairs / grocery prices area in Australia at the moment.
There, the government had [...]
UK Government proposes a “Consumer Tsar” – do we need one too?
Recently, I asked the question here as to whether Irish consumers should expect a better level of consumer advocacy and protection than [...]
Consumer advocacy and protection: is there something better?
Since I started my regular ValueIreland.com blogging I’ve been quite critical of both the National Consumer Agency (NCA) and, more recently given [...]
