Wills are the way to goNext Monday marks the start of Best Will in the World Week and more than 200 solicitors across the State will offer people help…Tue Oct 16 2012 - 01:00
Recruitment process begins for insolvency service staffTHE ESTABLISHMENT of the long-awaited personal insolvency service has moved a step closer with the announcement from the Department…Sat Oct 13 2012 - 01:00
Children's TV shows free to run cheese adsTHE BROADCASTING Authority of Ireland (BAI) announced yesterday that advertising cheese products on children’s television shows…Sat Oct 13 2012 - 01:00
Price of many drugs may fall 10% from next monthTHE PRICE of prescription drugs is likely to fall by more than 10 per cent within days after the Department of Health announces…Sat Oct 13 2012 - 01:00
Broadcasting Authority upholds complaints about TV3 'psychic' programmeCOMPLAINTS ABOUT TV3’s controversial Psychic Readings Live have been upheld by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) because…Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Thanks be to cheeses ban is liftedThere was grate news for Ireland’s cheesemakers who got their whey this morning when the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI…Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
TV3 Psychics Live breaches codeThree complaints against TV3's Psychic Readings Live have been upheld by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) because …Thu Oct 11 2012 - 01:00
House reserve prices drop to 25% of peak boom pricesA new report from the Central Bank which found the average price achieved at house auctions over the past two years was €130,…Wed Oct 10 2012 - 01:00
Property register brings clarity for buyersThe new house price register offers early positive indicators about the market, and invaluable information for the futureThu Oct 4 2012 - 01:00
Insurance firms in dark over levy changesTHE DEPARTMENT of Health has been accused of keeping the State’s four health insurance providers in the dark about changes it…Tue Oct 2 2012 - 01:00
Church moves on Communion frillsSTRETCH LIMOS, fake tan, long flowing designer dresses and enormous parties could become a thing of the past at First Communions…Tue Oct 2 2012 - 01:00
Property register shows few sales and one at €8,000LESS THAN one per cent of the State’s houses changed hands last year with some properties being sold for as little as €8,000, …Mon Oct 1 2012 - 01:00
Property price register publishedThe publication of the State’s long-awaited residential property price register today will restore “some confidence in the property…Sun Sep 30 2012 - 01:00
Shortall claims healthcare reform blocked by ReillyFormer junior health minister Róisín Shortall has claimed her attempts to reform the health service were blocked by Minister …Sat Sep 29 2012 - 01:00
The revolution lives on in the child of Che GuevaraThe blockade of Cuba by the US strikes at the heart of Aleida Guevara, whose country’s potential has been sytmied, and whose …Sat Sep 29 2012 - 01:00
Property prices increase for second monthRESIDENTIAL PROPERTY prices in the Republic increased for the second consecutive month in August sparking hopes that the market…Thu Sep 27 2012 - 01:00
Negative equity loan offers questionedEBS and AIB have announced details of a negative equity trade-up mortgage for customers who want to move to a property of greater…Wed Sep 26 2012 - 01:00
Meteor says sorry but dodges the questionREADER'S QUERIES: DAISY, A reader, got a HTC Desire S mobile phone (right) last December in a Meteor shop on Dublin’s North …Tue Sep 25 2012 - 01:00
Consumer body criticises removal of free bankingBANK OF Ireland has been sharply criticised for changing its current account fee structures and making it almost impossible for…Tue Sep 25 2012 - 01:00
No time to waste, the pensions time bomb is tickingLAST YEAR George Lee presented a programme on RTÉ that focused on the “Pension Time Bomb”Tue Sep 25 2012 - 01:00
Scramble for tickets reaches fever pitch as pair sell online for €1,520THE SCRAMBLE for tickets for tomorrow’s All-Ireland football final between Mayo and Donegal reached fever pitch yesterday, with…Sat Sep 22 2012 - 01:00
Ryanair 'had enough fuel' for diversionsTHREE RYANAIR aircraft which carried out emergency landings in Valencia because fuel supplies ran low after they were diverted…Fri Sep 21 2012 - 01:00
Divorce rate rises by more than 150% since 2002CENSUS 2011: WHILE MARRIAGE has become more popular in the Republic in recent years, much greater growth has been seen in divorce…Fri Sep 21 2012 - 01:00
€920 'weekly cost' of running average home bought in boomAN IRISH family who bought a house at the height of the property boom would need to earn more than €920 a week after tax just…Tue Sep 18 2012 - 01:00
€48,000 The cost of running a family homeAn AA survey published today puts a figure of €22,000 on the annual cost of owning and maintaining a home for boom-time buyers…Tue Sep 18 2012 - 01:00
Bord Gáis price rise to add €50 to annual billsBord Gáis Energy is increasing the cost of domestic electricity by nearly 5 per cent in a move that will add more than €50 to…Tue Sep 18 2012 - 01:00
Airtricity electricity and gas go up next monthAIRTRICITY IS to increase the price of its domestic gas and electricity in a move that will add nearly €120 to the annual fuel…Sat Sep 15 2012 - 01:00
Watchdog concerned about rise in financial complaintsCOMPLAINTS FROM consumers about the possible misselling of controversial payment protection insurance (PPI) policies sold by …Thu Sep 13 2012 - 01:00
It's easy to make a bags of itYOUR CONSUMER QUERIES: A reader got in touch to say she is travelling to Madrid later this month for 12 weeks to complete a…Tue Sep 11 2012 - 01:00
Cheap and cheerful way through collegeFrom coupon collecting to home brewing, students embarking on a year in college can save themselves a fortune if they follow …Tue Sep 11 2012 - 01:00
Paralympians due home this eveningPRESIDENT Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Enda Kenny hailed the most successful Irish Paralympic team ever yesterday.Mon Sep 10 2012 - 01:00
Businesses breach advertising rulesA Sunglasses Hut, a Halfords outlet, Ryanair and an Organic food shop Co Dublin were among the businesses to fall foul of the…Mon Sep 10 2012 - 01:00
Pledge to secure better value for reduced Irish Aid budgetTHE NEED for greater accountability and development programmes which offer better value for money have been highlighted by Minister…Sat Sep 8 2012 - 01:00
Speculation ECB will cut rate again to 0.5% todayTHERE WAS intense speculation on financial markets yesterday that the European Central Bank will cut its key interest rate by…Thu Sep 6 2012 - 01:00
Women's car insurance cost on rise, index showsTHE COST of car insurance for women is going up while for men it is falling ahead of a new EU directive banning price discrimination…Wed Sep 5 2012 - 01:00
Ulster Bank redress payout may cost almost €100mTHE COMPENSATION package announced yesterday for more than half a million Ulster Bank customers affected by the collapse of the…Sat Sep 1 2012 - 01:00
Fragile optimism: consumers tire of scrimping and switchingA new survey indicates, very faintly, that if things are not quite getting better, they could soon stop getting worseSat Sep 1 2012 - 01:00
Ulster Bank offers compensationUlster Bank has released the details of a financial package aimed at compensating more than half a million customers affected…Fri Aug 31 2012 - 01:00
Q&A: compensation scheme explainedAn explanation of the Ulster Bank compensation plan including who is eligible and how to apply.Fri Aug 31 2012 - 01:00
Customers not shopping around for better dealsThe number of consumers prepared to shop around for better value across a range of services, including banking and the supply…Wed Aug 29 2012 - 01:00
Parents still await school book deliveriesCLAIMS BY an online school bookseller that an order backlog has been cleared were rejected yesterday by customers who are still…Wed Aug 29 2012 - 01:00
US citizen collapses and dies on ascent of Croagh PatrickA man who was a US citizen collapsed and died suddenly yesterday as he began climbing Croagh Patrick, Co Mayo.Wed Aug 29 2012 - 01:00
In search of a head of hairFinding a cure for baldness has kept generations busy, but has the search come to an end? US academics and dermatologists seem…Tue Aug 28 2012 - 01:00
Retailers put Irish goods centre stageConsumers keenly search for value when shopping, but outlets are also having to react to customer scrutiny over whether food …Tue Aug 28 2012 - 01:00
'Unfair pressure' for school donationsA GROWING number of Irish parents cannot pay the “voluntary contributions” being sought by the State’s primary and secondary …Tue Aug 28 2012 - 01:00
Numbers shopping around fallThe number of Irish consumers who are prepared to shop around for better value across a range of products and services has fallen…Tue Aug 28 2012 - 01:00