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ValueIreland.com - Irelands Only Truly Independent Consumer Watchdog
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ValueIreland.com is the only truly independent consumer watchdog in Ireland today. Our aim is to provide consumer related news, opinion, research, resources, tips, links and warnings that will assist and benefit Irish consumers.
- Author: Diarmuid MacShane
- Listed in: Shopping Business
- Tags: CONSUMER AFFAIRS rip off consumer rights top tips consumer watchdog rip off ireland
Recent Posts
Small world, small country, big conflicts – why familiarity is killing the Irish public spirit
There was a tweet recently on Twitter that I thought was very telling on how Ireland operates. From @bohoe: In Ireland, complaining about a service is to disturb a friend of a friend. Elsewhere, as a way to improve everyone’s lifes. We’re afr...
AskAboutMoney.com presents “What every consumer MUST know”
Last week, Brendan at AskAboutMoney.com has started this great thread entitled “What every consumer MUST know“. It’s definitely worth checking out and bookmarking. Some of the topics covered are: Cost per minute of being “put...
Refund.ie – A service that I’d stay well clear of
Both the Irish Examiner and the Irish Independent (three times) have blindly (and misguidedly in my opinion) given coverage recently to a new service called Refund.ie. Crazily, when the Irish Examiner gave the website publicity, they hadn’t ev...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-22
@margareteward The Irish government and consumer groups are waiting for Europe to take the lead when it comes to consumer collective actions in reply to margareteward # @margareteward national consumer agency and the consumers association will be fi...
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 stories early in the morning. It even made the rounds of Twitter for a while as well. The cheap Lidl suit story has been around f...
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 the Competition Authority of Ireland were unlikely to be happy about their proposed merger with the National Consu...
