Tag Archives: Consumers Association of Ireland (CAI)

What did you do for World Consumers Day?

Yesterday was World Consumers Day. Personally, I wouldn’t have known about it except for someone forwarded to me a Consumers Association of [...]

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 [...]