Here . . .Dublin: Brady's, Camden Street, €1.89; Corrigan's, Malahide Road, €1.89;Burke's, Ranelagh, €1.89

Belfast: Gordon's, Castle Street, €1

Cork: Phelan's, North Main Street, €1.89

Limerick: Arthur's Quay Pharmacy, Arthur's Quay Centre, Patrick Street, €1.68

Galway: Mervue Pharmacy, Old Mervue, €1.64

Tralee: Burn's, Caherslee, €1.89

Mullingar: Winkworth's, Pearse Street, €1.64

Waterford: Gallagher's, Barronstrand Street, €1.89

There . . .

Edinburgh: Boots, Princes Street, 85c

London: Muir's, Bromley, €1.15

New York: Long's Drugs, West 10th Street, €1.65

Barcelona: Farmacia La Botica, Poblenou, €1.50

All prices are for generic makes of paracetamol, the most common over-the- counter painkiller. Branded versions of the drug cost considerably more

Next week: DVD players

What you've found . . .

I was recently in Dubai, a city surrounded by desert. As in Dublin, you find mineral-water vending machines on the streets. A bottle of water there costs a dirham, or about 25c. Here, a country surrounded by water, with rain every other day and more lakes and rivers than the whole of the Middle East combined, prices range from €1.10 to €1.40. Rip-off Ireland?

Will Priestley, Dublin 2

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