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Maybe I’m just a little bit geeky, or a little bit sad, but it’s crossed my mind a few times. This question, from Anthony Lawlor TD, or at least the answer to it if it wasn’t ducked by the Minister, would be the start…
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Via a Dail question from Anthony Lawlor, TD for Kildare North (from the always excellent KildareStreet.com): Anthony Lawlor (Kildare North, Fine Gael) - Question 73: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount o…
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Yesterday I wrote a follow up to some tweets on Tuesday morning regarding the proposed acquisition of Superquinn by Musgraves. I think this is going to be an interesting proposition for the Competition Authority, and the government. It…
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I use the excellent KildareStreet.com to keep in touch with what’s being said in the Dail that’s related to the area of interest for this website – i.e. consumer affairs. (I’ve written about the site a few times…
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I’ve noticed in the past couple of weeks that some of our consumer watchdogs, or their spokespersons at least, have been a bit more vocal than normal. There’s more soundbites being published, more pithy remarks in response …
That might sound like the start of a Carlsberg themed advert, but there is no punch line. The National Consumer Agency don’t. [...]
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I wrote last week that I believed that we’d reached the end of Irish consumer writing and that unless businesses and service [...]
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This Q&A came from the New York Times recently. While it’s US focused, it does point out some useful tips on what [...]
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I really wish the NCA would do their job. The National Consumer Agency is a government quango set up, apparently according to their [...]
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It’s some time ago that the NCA admitted that they had to give up on trying to build a grocery price comparison [...]
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One of the more popular pages on this site is my constantly updated feature on reasons not to get involved in using [...]
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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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During 2009, the National Consumer Agency set up a new section on their website – ConsumerValue. According to the web page blurb:
ConsumerValue [...]
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Splashed across the Aldi website at the moment is the headline “Ireland’s Best Value Discounter”, while available on many of the Lidl [...]
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Back in January, the National Consumer Agency released the results of a survey (and strangely, seemed to release pretty much the same survey [...]
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In these difficult times, you’ll see articles in various publications containing suggestions on how to boost your income. Some of the more [...]
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An e-mail came through from a ValueIreland.com reader recently, where the answer is very simple to the one that I gave to [...]
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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 Consume…
Talking to a colleague of mine during the week, he had a story that made him pretty angry the previous weekend. He’s in the market for a “people carrier” to cater for his expanding family so had been doing some internet searches around Dublin g…
There was an interesting report yesterday evening on the Irish Times website – link here. According to the report, research from the National Consumer Agency found that:
More Irish people are shopping around before buying into service contracts f…
