Tag Archives: The Irish Times

We Irish are suckers for brands and labels, and it’s costing us dear

Paul Cullen wrote this story back in September, Stepping out in the €27.99 suit, when it was one of their websites top [...]

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 [...]

Top Tip when booking online for anything

In this post last week, I referred to this thread on Conor Popes Pricewatch blog where there was some discussion on the [...]

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 [...]

Are you interested in Irish culture? How would you define it?

Did you attend Culture Night anywhere around the country recently?  Someone asked me in the last few weeks:
Have you any interest in Irish culture?
I [...]

Ridiculous consumer views about Ryanair

This thread on Pricewatch recently, which I’ve referred to a few times already, is a gold mine of information and absolute stupidity. [...]

Ireland deserves foreign holidays!

A few times over the past couple of weeks (over a few pints mind you), the term entitlement and the Irish race [...]

1.9m Irish consumers overcharged by over €632m since 2004

Last week saw Bank of Ireland added to the Overcharging in Ireland hall of shame for the 6th time since 2004.
According to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]