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Todays the day that we celebrate all things Irish.
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I mentioned last week that I’d been planning some changes to the website, and as of Sunday night, these changes are now [...]

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It’s been a quiet week here on ValueIreland.com.  I’m working on a couple of things in the background that I’m hoping to [...]

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The term “screen scraping” refers to automated processes that some people run which go off to a website and scans/copies the content [...]

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To all readers of ValueIreland.com, SayNoTo1890.com and Thrift.ie, I wish you the very best for this Christmas season, and I hope you all have a very happy and prosperous 2010.
I’m taking a break for a few weeks and normal service will be resumed in …

No, I’m not referring to the Irish Nationalist movement from the 1830’s leading up to the Young Irelanders Rebellion in 1848. I’m referring to the Young Ireland “Buy Irish” campaign from the 1980’s.
I’ve writte…

@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 fight…

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Through writing for ValueIreland.com over the past 6+ years, I’ve come into contact (online and offline) with many who do similar stuff – i.e. write online. Reading a wide selection of blogs brought me to the newer aspects of what’s now known as…

Silent protest from the 24/7 Frontline marchers heading up Molesworth Street now. #
Assoc of Garda Sargents and Inspectors heading down now dressed up looking like United Nations/Bank of Ireland employees. #
nice little ditty being boomed out now at th…

For anyone receiving the  e-mail updates from ValueIreland.com, you may have noticed some problems with them in the past week or so.
I’ve been checking out what’s going on, and I think I’ve found out what the problem is. Hopefully, y…

Buyer Beware on RTE1 – my thoughts on the new series
I wasn’t actually planning on writing anything about the new series of Buyer Beware with Philip Boucher Hayes that started on Wednesday night on RTE 1.
However, in the past couple of days there

@EvertB Trinity has an indoor climbing wall I believe, in Naughton Building in reply to EvertB #
RT @EU_Consumer Entitled to refund if you do not use airline ticket? Can you easily compare prices between airlines? http://bit.ly/35AFNQ #
@darraghdoyle A…

I wrote in October how I had NameAndShame.ie available for a good home. Going through a few things in the last while, I decided that I don’t really need another .ie domain that I have registered.
It’s a couple of years since I reserved the…

Global Irish Econc Forum website cost €11k – unreal. @davidmcw got €10k for showing up to his own idea – even worse! http://short.ie/69np0u #
http://tr.im/D7sW <<< Interesting article from the US #
@adrianweckler not a bad p…

@pricegenie re your advertising quote – I much prefer "Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable" #
@twentymajor is that the spoken version? With Berties own dulcet tones reading to you? (now on itunes if not) how smarmy must …

Following a close second in the pointless and non-newsworthy headlines stakes, we saw this beauty last Tuesday “Shameless rip-off as airlines hike Paris football flights to €300”.
If you remember, I wrote yesterday about the number one most point…

This looks like a cool job and an interesting move for Eircom – they are looking for a Community Manager http://short.ie/kzrmjy #eircom #
RT @EvertB Enterprise Ireland, spends @ €100m on pay & admin, & €56m on grants to business. If…

It’s a while now since I reserved myself the Irish domain name www.NameAndShame.ie, and it’s due for renewal this coming January.
I never really had a definite plan for the domain and anything I’ve attempted recently just hasn’t…

I was struck by this comment earlier this week by Daragh Lally on Twitter-

If you were to take the Irish Government – Senior and Junior Ministers – nearly every county in Ireland is represented. That is, unless you live in Sligo, Wexford, …

I’ve written a couple of posts already about my initiative to create a listing of e-mail addresses for the CEOs and senior management of Irish companys so that consumers can escalate their customer service issues to them when they come to the end of …

A few times over the past couple of weeks (over a few pints mind you), the term entitlement and the Irish race came up.
One particular acquaintance of mine referred again and again to how they view that many (their term, not mine) Irish people believe …

A few times over the past couple of weeks (over a few pints mind you), the term entitlement and the Irish race came up.
One particular acquaintance of mine referred again and again to how they view that many (their term, not mine) Irish people believe …