Should have gone to physics class? Specsavers may be blinding you with bad scienceA physics lecturer questions an in-store demonstration the company usesMon Mar 26 2018 - 11:44
Crunch time: granolas put to the testPricewatch: we check out the best in berry granolasMon Mar 26 2018 - 01:00
Are DIY skills becoming a thing of the past?We lost our DIY skills in the boom when we we got notions and hired people to do things for usMon Mar 26 2018 - 00:00
Stena, we think you’re sound‘Stena took my stressful situation, crumpled it up like a piece of paper and tossed it in the bin’Mon Mar 26 2018 - 00:00
Goodbye to the Hill? Street traders resolve to resist any bid to oust themDublin locals buying and selling everything at Cumberland St market for generationsSat Mar 24 2018 - 18:00
Van Morrison says he got divorced last weekSinger-songwriter’s statement reveals he and Michelle Rocca granted divorce in DublinSat Mar 24 2018 - 01:36
Where can you get the best breakfast in Ireland?Awards recognise the people providing the best start to the day, with two castles on the Wild Atlantic Way taking the top prizesThu Mar 22 2018 - 14:30
Mortgage arrears fall but 70,000 borrowers still can’t meet paymentsCentral Bank figures show 87% of restructured mortgage holders meeting repaymentsThu Mar 22 2018 - 13:06
The battle against food wasteTonnes of perfectly edible food – worth about €700m – ends up in Irish bins every yearThu Mar 22 2018 - 04:46
Are Irish supermarkets doing enough to reduce their plastic packaging?It is estimated retailers here produce 80,000 tonnes of plastic waste every yearThu Mar 22 2018 - 01:00
Talking rubbish: what makes people litter?Psychologist Prof Paul Wesley Schultz believes it is more about the environment than the individual: people are far less likely to litter beautiful, well-kept areasThu Mar 22 2018 - 01:00
Electronic waste is good for the planetWhen recycled carefully, discarded electronics can provide a rich and lucrative seam of precious metals and other raw materialsThu Mar 22 2018 - 01:00
Dying to protect the environmentSeeking an ethical departure from this world is not that simpleThu Mar 22 2018 - 00:00
Hard Brexit could cost Irish households €1,400 a year in higher pricesTrade barriers would push up retail prices, ESRI findsWed Mar 21 2018 - 05:00
Dublin rents rise most in commuter beltAverage monthly rent in Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow is above €1,000, but rate of increase slows in cityWed Mar 21 2018 - 00:01
New university archive will store film documenting Ireland’s pastThousands of hours of film will be safeguarded from decayMon Mar 19 2018 - 20:25
Carpet fitters make surprise discovery in spare room of south Dublin houseMen pulled up carpet and made discovery in two plastic bagsMon Mar 19 2018 - 15:20
Bank of Ireland left me ‘high and dry’ in New YorkYour consumer queries answered: ‘As it was Sunday there was nothing they could do’Mon Mar 19 2018 - 01:00
Empty shelves point to fragility in our food supplyPricewatch checks out supermarkets’ response to the Beast from the EastMon Mar 19 2018 - 00:00
‘Latte levy’ could reduce disposable coffee cups by 250,000 a dayThe Government has proposed a new 15-cent levy on most disposable coffee cups to incentivise the use of reusable cupsSat Mar 17 2018 - 11:59
How would Ireland look if it was made up of just 100 people?The bad news is the Ireland of the Hundred would be mostly fatFri Mar 16 2018 - 10:42
Motorists could save €100 if insurance fraud measures introducedInsurance broker AA says Government attention has wavered and reforms stalledWed Mar 14 2018 - 21:07
Q&A: What is behind the new Panda recycling charge?Fees for mixed dry recyclables coming for some consumers from middle of next monthWed Mar 14 2018 - 20:45
Property prices rise by 12.5% over last 12 monthsLatest CSO figures show property in some areas rising by more than 17%Wed Mar 14 2018 - 18:10
Does fat Ireland really need a drive-through doughnut shop?Krispy Kreme is to open its first Irish outlet in the autumnWed Mar 14 2018 - 11:33
Cheap jewellery found to contain lead and other potentially toxic materials‘Long-term lead exposure can damage the nervous system and be especially hazardous for children’ - HSA inspectorTue Mar 13 2018 - 22:05
Ryanair crew unable to work due to Storm Emma will not be paidMost other major employers, including Aer Lingus, will pay staff for days lostMon Mar 12 2018 - 19:48
Twenty-nine ways World Wide Web has changed our lives in 29 yearsBritish computer scientist’s proposal led to transformation of services and data accessMon Mar 12 2018 - 06:00
Meat processor forces staff to sacrifice two days' leave over snowSiptu condemns move but Dawn Meats insists arrangements in line with sector normsMon Mar 12 2018 - 01:35
Going spare at Eir: Pricewatch mailbag fills up with complaintsFormer customers describe frustrating experiences with telecoms providerMon Mar 12 2018 - 00:00
Is the treadmill at the gym ‘real running’ or is it cheating?Pounding pavements should have prepared me for a few kilometres on a machine, I reckonedTue Mar 06 2018 - 08:21
Storm Emma bread panic ‘could lead to sliced pan renaissance’Breadmakers express hope that recent concern over loaves will start a long-term trendMon Mar 05 2018 - 22:03
Lidl staff at partially demolished store to be redeployedWest Dublin outlet was damaged using a digger during Storm Emma lootingMon Mar 05 2018 - 17:22
Just when you thought Eir customer service couldn’t get any worse . . .Reader Ann Slaven thought cancelling her account would be easy – she was wrongMon Mar 05 2018 - 13:54
People may yet be found dead after snow - VaradkarImpact of one most extreme weather events to hit Ireland in 50 years yet to be assessed - TaoiseachMon Mar 05 2018 - 01:00
How companies ensure the poor get poorerPricewatch: It’s a strange paradox, but the richer you are, the less you have to pay for life’s essentials. Those who can least afford basic goods and services are penalised the mostMon Mar 05 2018 - 00:00
Pricewatch: Solutions to snoringWe check out four methods for quieter slumber and compare quality and priceMon Mar 05 2018 - 00:00
Water rationing threatened after snow and ice damageTomorrow will ‘not be a normal Monday in many areas’, public warnedSun Mar 04 2018 - 21:11
Disruptions persist as Ireland tries to get back on trackRoads and schools in parts of Leinster, and health services nationally, still affectedSun Mar 04 2018 - 17:00
After the storm: Flight chaos causes traveller miseryPoor communication from airlines a common feature of all travellers’ talesSun Mar 04 2018 - 16:18
Online sales snowball on Thursday and FridayStrong sales across e-tailers were expected to continue over the weekendFri Mar 02 2018 - 17:16
Q&A: My flight was disrupted due to the snow storm - what am I entitled to?At least 100,000 airline passengers need to be accommodated due to flight cancellationsFri Mar 02 2018 - 17:02
Camaraderie and ‘wartime spirit’ soars as the snow comes down‘I’m 41, and I can safely say this is the first time I have ever built a snowman’Fri Mar 02 2018 - 16:35
'I saw a woman with eight sliced pans and eight cartons of milk. What was she thinking?'There was no fuel and very little food, recalls 80-year-old taxi driver John HouldenFri Mar 02 2018 - 04:00
‘We don’t see a Beast from the East, we see a bit of snow and we laugh at it’German visitors unimpressed as much of Dublin shuts down due to weather alertFri Mar 02 2018 - 01:30
He pauses. He throws his final knife. The knife hits meFrom bikes flying past his head in the Globe of Death to getting knives thrown at him, Conor Pope runs away to a madcap circusThu Mar 01 2018 - 06:00
Here is your complete guide to the big freeze, if you catch my drift120,000 tonnes of salt at the ready as Beast from the East sets inTue Feb 27 2018 - 19:20
How to protect your home from freezing temperaturesThe ‘beast from the East’ could cause burst water pipes and slippery pathsMon Feb 26 2018 - 14:17
Clicks and mortar: The Irish retailers who are doing the business onlinePricewatch: rather than watch their sales disappear into cyberspace, many Irish retailers are setting up shop on the web – and are competing with the online-only discountersSat Feb 24 2018 - 15:15
The economy may be booming, but Irish shops are dyingThe more we spend online, the harder it is for shops like Waltons to survive, writes Conor PopeSat Feb 24 2018 - 05:30
