Dan White of the Evening Herald wrote yesterday evening about the fact that Ann Fitzgerald has declined to accept her bonus, thought [...]
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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 [...]
National Consumer Agency – need more staff, or just need a clue?
The Annual report of the National Consumer Agency for 2008 was release recently. To cover up the fact that they’re not actually [...]
Pricing Legislation – The problem with Sale pricing
The short answer is, after a “reasonable period of time”. Yes, it’s as fuzzy and hazy and non-specific as that. Perfect for [...]
Consumer News Weekend Short Stack
Here’s a few items for you for the weekend: First ever negative comment – This week say my first ever negative comment [...]
Aileen O’Toole and the National Consumer Agency
In doing the research for this post, I was looking for links between Aileen O’Toole and her nominees to her IdeasCampaign Advisory [...]
ConsumerValue from the National Consumer Agency
A press release this morning has announced a new sub-section to the National Consumer Agency website called ConsumerValue. According to the blurb [...]
IdeasCampaign – Advisory Council Named
I’ve written a couple of times so far about how I’m not convinced about the IdeasCampaign that is being promoted by Amas [...]
Irelands crap tourism promotion
I’ve received a few e-mails in the past couple of weeks about how useless people think Tourism Ireland are when it comes [...]
Who YOU gonna call? Aid hard to track
Irish News of the World February 15th, 2009 Diarmuid MacShane Somebody should do something – but who you gonna call? As a [...]
