Tag Archives: National Consumer Agency (NCA)

NCA survey results – Consumers are shopping around less. But why?

Back in January, the National Consumer Agency released the results of a survey (and strangely, seemed to release pretty much the same survey [...]

Beware of this “mystery shopping” scam

In these difficult times, you’ll see articles in various publications containing suggestions on how to boost your income. Some of the more [...]

What can I do about pubs changing their prices?

An e-mail came through from a ValueIreland.com reader recently, where the answer is very simple to the one that I gave to [...]

Competition Authority and National Consumer Agency. A marriage made in hell?

I wrote previously, Are the Competition Authority happy to be merged with the National Consumer Agency?, about how it was unlikely that [...]

What garages are doing to get customers in the door

Talking to a colleague of mine during the week, he had a story that made him pretty angry the previous weekend.  He’s [...]

Irish consumers are shopping around to save money

There was an interesting report yesterday evening on the Irish Times website – link here. According to the report, research from the [...]

Positive steps towards a national grocery price comparison website?

According to this article in this mornings Irish Times, the National Consumer Agency are in the process of trying to put together [...]

Watching out for clocked cars

Irish News of the World
June 14th, 2009
Diarmuid MacShane
Watching out for clocked cars
The National Consumer Agency released their 2008 annual report during the [...]

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 [...]