Tag Archives: The Irish Examiner

Refund.ie – A service that I’d stay well clear of

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Both the Irish Examiner and the Irish [...]

More on the fixed rate mortgage holders bail-out proposals

I wrote about this last week, here, and it got a great response with some detailed and thought out comments. Liam Ferguson, [...]

Consumer Feature

The Irish Examiner
Fiona McPhillips
There are few of us who haven’t been hit by the recession, the credit crunch and the recent budget.  [...]

Consumers ‘victims of €620m rip-off’

The Irish Examiner
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
By Jennifer Hough
CONSUMERS have been ripped off to the tune of €620 million in the past four [...]

Overcharging banks – Consumers suffer again

The Irish Examiner
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Editorial
A SURVEY, compiled by ValueIreland.com since July 2004, indicates a range of banks, service providers, and insurance [...]

Overcharging In Ireland: Hibernian at it again

For the second time in 2008, Hibernian Direct Insurance has been added to the ValueIreland.com Overcharging List of Shame.
As reported in Saturdays [...]

Rip-off culture has taken root

The Irish Examiner
Editorial, April 14, 2005

FROM banks to phone companies, insurance brokers and the ESB, the scandal of rip-off Ireland continues.
Seemingly, as [...]

Directory Enquiries – Now available via text

At the start of June I published some research on the ValueIreland.com website regarding the relative costs of the different directory enquiry [...]

Slower trains, or fiddling the numbers

There was an article in the Irish Examiner this morning with the headline “Iarnród Éireann admits journey times are longer”. The story [...]

Ticket Text – Competition for TicketMaster for Irish consumers?

A couple of weeks ago, there was a press release from the company Ticket Text covered in both the Irish Examiner and [...]