Tag Archives: Leo Varadkar

Ringing Government Departments on 1890 LOCALL numbers

This article from Mondays Pricewatch column in the Irish Times from Conor Pope highlights a reader, Mannix, who takes issue with the [...]

My name is not Dr. Florence Craven

While many people have alternative identities that they might use when online, I’d like to confirm that mine (if I have one [...]

Weekend Consumer News Short Stack

Just a few short comments for the weekend. ValueIreland.com Housekeeping – We think we’ve been having problems with our e-mail recently, but [...]

Top Tips for Irish Consumers from Leo Varadkar

With many thanks and courtesy of Leo Varadkar, Fine Gael spokesman for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, here is the 9th in our [...]

Dublin’s Q102 launches ‘Ignore That Store’ campaign

We received this press release earlier this week – a campaign by the Dublin station Q102 against the dual pricing and exaggerated [...]

Fine Gael – Streamlining Goverment

I’ve had a couple of e-mails from people drawing my attention to the publication of the Fine Gael policy document, Streamlining Government. [...]

Fine Gael Declares War on Useless Regulators

Eventually Fine Gael were going to come up with a decent idea – and yesterday it was announced that “Kenny declares €50m [...]

Leo Varadkar advocates consumers giving interest free 3 year loans to retailers

I was interested to read the results of a Fine Gael survey on gift vouchers. Leo Varadkar estimates that “€40 million worth [...]