Seasonal cheer for supermarkets as consumers set to spend over €1.4bn on groceries Grocery inflation continuing to fall, according to figures from retail analysts Kantar Worldpanel, with speed of price increases declining for seventh successive monthMon Dec 11 2023 - 12:36
Peak season at An Post’s mail centre: Ireland is ‘one of the last’ Christmas card countriesMore than 1 million Christmas cards and 2 million parcels and will go through the hub this weekMon Dec 11 2023 - 11:41
The cards that endure in a virtual worldPricewatch: A little Christmas cheer from Charles Dickens has grown into the present-giving, card-writing traditions of todayMon Dec 11 2023 - 00:01
Bunq puts it up to Irish banks with instant access saving rate of 2.46%Dutch neobank offering on-demand rate 10 times better than most comparable Irish banks’ savings accountsSat Dec 09 2023 - 00:01
Call for health insurers to pass on stamp duty cutMove could save some families close to €100 a year if it is passed on by providersFri Dec 08 2023 - 16:55
My name is on the mortgage, but Bank of Ireland communicates only with my husband The bank says the first applicant is the point of contact. ‘In this day and age, it’s unthinkable,’ says DeirdreWed Dec 06 2023 - 07:05
Road tolls to increase for second time in under a year from JanuaryMost car tolls are increasing by 20 cent per journey, says Transport Infrastructure IrelandTue Dec 05 2023 - 14:00
Irish consumers to spend less but borrow more over Christmas, says CCPCCompetition and Consumer Protection Commission research puts the average expected spend at €1,030 this year compared with €1,186 in 2022Tue Dec 05 2023 - 09:23
I am tired of this Aer Lingus refund merry-go-round Pricewatch: Bernice, whose flight to Ireland was late, made a claim. Then the real delays startedTue Dec 05 2023 - 06:00
November was warmer and sunnier than average despite Storm Debi bringing heavy rainStorms saw large amounts of rain and damaging winds sweep across parts of Ireland in NovemberMon Dec 04 2023 - 13:30
Residential electricity bills fell in 2022, gas bills rose steeply, CSO findsGovernment interventions stopped electricity bills reaching record highs, while gas customers paid hundreds of euro moreMon Dec 04 2023 - 13:04
An Post: Bark the herald angels sing as people poised to buy presents for their pets One in five who shop online are buying gifts for their petsMon Dec 04 2023 - 06:00
‘We were not in arrears and never had been’: PTSB sold this reader’s mortgage - now she pays hundreds more each monthA reader we shall call Siobhán is enraged at the effect of PTSB selling her mortgage. Pricewatch contacted the bank for its takeMon Dec 04 2023 - 06:00
Have yourself a more mindful little Christmas: 32 ideas for a thoughtful, environmentally-friendly (and cheaper!) festive seasonYour guide to gifting, shopping, socialising and minding yourself over the weeks aheadSat Dec 02 2023 - 06:00
Christmas trees ‘from forest to front door’: Growers foresee bumper season after top growing conditionsThings are very hectic at the moment for those supplying real Christmas trees, and one supplier we spoke to has the Santa-like task of getting about 20,000 of them to marketSat Dec 02 2023 - 06:00
The small Irish shops battling multinationals for your Christmas eurosLocal businesses face many challenges, but none so big as the gun metal grey and blue vans with the Amazon swoosh that have been criss-crossing the country in recent weeksSat Dec 02 2023 - 05:00
Nightmare before Christmas for FreeNow as it claws back voucher free-for-all‘Riddle’ worth €200 was solved by many customers before company cancelled credits for taxi appFri Dec 01 2023 - 14:22
Falling inflation may have sting in its tail, Department of Finance warnsImpact of higher interest rates yet to be ‘fully felt’, department to tell Public Accounts CommitteeThu Nov 30 2023 - 06:00
Consumer watchdog says no Irish research planned as UK regulator finds brands hiked prices to maximise profitsSome suppliers are contributing to food price inflation, says Competition and Markets AuthorityWed Nov 29 2023 - 11:26
Ben Dunne funeral: Supermarket tycoon remembered as kind man who kept business of family close to his heartDunne’s kidnapping at the hands of the IRA in the early 1980s was a ‘hugely traumatic source of many of his personal problems in the years that followed’, funeral toldTue Nov 28 2023 - 15:19
Dunnes shoppers could lose out as voucher window gets smallerThe retailer is reducing to 10 days the timeframe in which vouchers are validTue Nov 28 2023 - 06:00
Dublin riots: ‘It’s just a mess. The whole front of the shop was destroyed’Retailers count the cost of rioting and looting as they prepare to reopenMon Nov 27 2023 - 16:02
The 12 costs of Christmas, and 12 ways to spend smarterPricewatch: Research suggests we are near the top of the international spending charts at ChristmasMon Nov 27 2023 - 07:01
Guns used in Michael Collins film go under the hammerItems which featured in The Banshees of Inisherin, My Left Foot, Normal People and Father Ted will be up for grabs in an online auctionSun Nov 26 2023 - 18:36
Dublin retailers, restaurants and pubs fearful of long-term impact of violent scenes‘We believe it is essential the policing strategy is adjusted so there is a high profile, sustained Garda presence on Dublin streets throughout the city centre on a permanent basis’Fri Nov 24 2023 - 19:00
'It was a really dark day for Dublin': Clean up in Dublin begins after night of riotsThe Dublin Lord Mayor called yesterday "a really dark day for Dublin" as rioters and looters burnt out out public transport and attacked Gardai.Fri Nov 24 2023 - 12:22
‘Shame on those people’: Arnotts chief rounds on riotersDublin businesses ‘massively concerned’ about cost and impact of riots on trade in what is busiest trading period of the yearFri Nov 24 2023 - 12:14
‘Dark day for Dublin’: Shock and anger as scale of destruction from riots comes to lightDamage in area around O’Connell Street visible following night of ‘devastation’Fri Nov 24 2023 - 12:10
Black Friday: Conor Pope’s 10 commandments for bagging a bargain and avoiding rip-offsDo your research, make a list, don’t panic and, maybe most importantly, shop Irish where possibleFri Nov 24 2023 - 06:00
Petrol and diesel prices fall as Christmas nears with average cost per litre down 3 centPrice survey by the AA attributes decrease to an easing back of the price of a barrel of oil on international marketsThu Nov 23 2023 - 06:00
Maurice Pratt on Quinnsworth’s ‘enemy’ Ben DunneThe former managing director of Quinnsworth says he hopes Ben Dunne will be remembered as ‘a tremendous retailer’Tue Nov 21 2023 - 19:00
The Debate: Is eating out in Ireland a rip-off?Is fine dining an art form that should demand collectors’ prices, or are prices just too high? Conor Pope and Georgina Campbell debateTue Nov 21 2023 - 06:00
My flights have been pushed back by an hour and 50 minutes, messing up my plans. Is there anything I can do?Travel Q&A: A reader’s Aer Lingus flights change means she and her young family will arrive too late to pick up a rental car and possibly too late to get to her accommodationTue Nov 21 2023 - 05:00
Black Friday: Yes there are bargains, but don’t be fooled Be sceptical about big-sounding discounts. Retailers know how to seem more generous than they areMon Nov 20 2023 - 06:01
Christmas online present shopping: Seven of the best Irish websites for skincare and beautyPricewatch: Get ahead with your Christmas shopping with our handy guideMon Nov 20 2023 - 06:00
Ben Dunne: The low-cost crusader who believed ‘in business it helps if you have an enemy’Conor Pope: ‘Despite it all he was always a salesman. It was what he was born to do. And he was absolutely ruthless’Sun Nov 19 2023 - 13:13
Christmas online present shopping: 10 of the best Irish websites to order books fromPricewatch: Get ahead with your Christmas shopping with our handy guideSun Nov 19 2023 - 06:00
Christmas online present shopping: 39 of the best Irish websites for unique giftsPricewatch: Get ahead with your Christmas shopping with our handy guideSat Nov 18 2023 - 06:00
Be wary of two-for-ones and never shop hungry: Five ways to manage rising grocery billsFood inflation in Ireland is lower than across the EU as a whole but that’s little comfort to hard-pressed Irish consumersFri Nov 17 2023 - 12:29
Christmas online present shopping: 16 of the best Irish websites for food and drinkPricewatch: Get ahead with your Christmas shopping with our handy guideFri Nov 17 2023 - 06:00
Paying the price for an absence of travel insurancePricewatch: The ferry company cancelled the crossing as a result of circumstances beyond its control – the weatherThu Nov 16 2023 - 06:01
Christmas online present shopping: 10 of the best Irish websites for toys Pricewatch: Get ahead with your Christmas shopping with our handy guideThu Nov 16 2023 - 06:00
Boston-bound plane forced to return to Shannon after incidentAer Lingus flight departed at 2.41pm for airport but returned after 5pm after a disturbanceWed Nov 15 2023 - 19:15
RTÉ strategy includes disinformation correspondent and possible new teenage dramaAttempt to rebuild trust and woo younger audiences central to broadcaster’s strategyWed Nov 15 2023 - 19:02
Fresh financial blow to Irish Life Health customers as prices rise againPolicy prices to increase by an average of 4.8% from JanuaryWed Nov 15 2023 - 16:45
Christmas online present shopping: 19 of the best Irish websites for clothing and jewelleryPricewatch: Get ahead with your Christmas shopping with our handy guideWed Nov 15 2023 - 06:00
Black Friday sales more likely to attract young people, CCPC saysThe consumer watchdog monitors online and instore discounts to ensure consumers not misledTue Nov 14 2023 - 13:19
Grocery inflation eases back again to stand at less than 10%Own-label sales grow at almost twice the pace of branded goods during reporting periodMon Nov 13 2023 - 16:46
Irish people will spend close to €600 on Christmas presents this yearChristmas countdown: Vouchers top choice for festive shoppers, as two-thirds of those surveyed say they want to support IrishMon Nov 13 2023 - 07:55
Sky’s the limit for reader fined by company for doing what he was toldPricewatch: ‘I am a long-time customer of Sky and am appalled by their attitude’Mon Nov 13 2023 - 00:00
