Both the Irish Examiner and the Irish Independent (three times) have blindly (and misguidedly in my opinion) given coverage recently to a new [...]
Tag Archives: The Irish Examiner
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
[This article refers to TopTips.ie which I gave up as no longer necessary - instead, you can click on the ValueIreland Top [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
