Dig out that gift voucher and spend it this weekend – it’s only sensibleOn The Money: Conditions attached to vouchers have improved dramatically, but we’re still wasting millions Fri Jul 10 2026 - 09:00
‘How can An Post be so arrogant?’ The gift that got ‘stuck in Portlaoise’Mary was close to giving up all hope of receiving the piece of jewellery she bought for her nieceTue Jul 07 2026 - 06:03
Carmel’s Camino trek goes wrong: A disappearing driver and a €900 taxi rideOnline platform’s policy on refunds and cancellations cause significant stressMon Jul 06 2026 - 06:03
JD Sports to reissue thousands of ‘expired’ gift cards after watchdog talks Sports retail giant’s move to deny nearly €250,000 worth of gifts in breach of State’s consumer legislation Mon Jul 06 2026 - 06:00
McDonald’s to Chapter One: which restaurants passed the VAT cut on to customers?Cut makes no distinction between tiny restaurants struggling to put food on the table and the giants of global fast foodSat Jul 04 2026 - 06:00
Man in critical condition following Dublin assaultMan (40s) hospitalised following early morning assault in Mulhuddart housing estateFri Jul 03 2026 - 17:33
Everything you need to know about the new €3 customs chargeFrom Wednesday, an order of three items from outside the EU will become at least €9 more expensiveWed Jul 01 2026 - 18:52
Online shoppers warned of scam messages ahead of major tax changes this weekPurchases worth less than €150 from outside EU will be subject to €3 plus VAT from WednesdayMon Jun 29 2026 - 16:44
Grocery inflation dips under 5%, new figures suggestConcern that impact of Middle East conflict has yet to fully filter through supply chain, which could mean higher prices later this summerMon Jun 29 2026 - 10:19
Family evacuated from Gaza forced to leave Dublin over weekend due to lack of affordable housingAmir Wali and his family say relocation to Kilkenny is unsuitable on medical, psychological, educational and practical groundsMon Jun 29 2026 - 06:00
Cost of kids: 14 ways having three children can add up to more than €800,000Our assessent of how much it costs to have a child in Ireland today and rear them until they reach age 21Mon Jun 29 2026 - 06:00
Veronica Guerin’s ‘too brief life’ changed Ireland for the better, Taoiseach tells anniversary eventMicheál Martin acknowledges threat to modern day journalism through spread of unreliable news Fri Jun 26 2026 - 23:29
Heatwave declared official on Friday, but temperatures to dip over weekend Rainfall will become more widespread by Sunday, after thunderstorms left some without powerFri Jun 26 2026 - 21:21
Temperature hits high of 28 degrees with heat warning in place until morningThousands without power following lightning strikes in parts of countryFri Jun 26 2026 - 21:14
France braces for high death toll as hospitals hit heatwave breaking point‘Heat dome’ expected to move eastward over weekend with high temperatures set to hit Germany, Poland and CroatiaFri Jun 26 2026 - 20:58
‘I might start melting’: Hot Dublin weather takes tourists by surpriseOn a sweltering day in the capital, visitors bemoan unwisely packed clothing and queue for free ice-creams Fri Jun 26 2026 - 06:00
Ireland braces for hottest day of 2026 as heatwave grips Europe Soaring values in France, Italy, Spain, England and other western European states exerting significant strain Thu Jun 25 2026 - 06:00
Up to 26 million scam calls intercepted by just one operator last yearThree Ireland intercepted 650,000 fraudulent text messages in first five months of this yearThu Jun 25 2026 - 05:00
Consumer watchdog expresses concern over ‘buy now, pay later’ schemesLack of education about how such lending services work, Oireachtas finance committee toldWed Jun 24 2026 - 19:41
Up to 80% of parents believe children negatively affected by cost-of-living crisisBarnardos survey finds 30% of respondents did not have enough food to feed children at some point over last yearTue Jun 23 2026 - 06:00
Aer Lingus apologises to Canadian family for refund delay after removal from flightMichael Rosien, who suffers from vascular dementia, on ‘last vacation to remember’ in IrelandMon Jun 22 2026 - 12:34
Watchdog warns of new scam messages targeting shoppers on non-EU websitesItems shipped from outside EU to incur €3 fee under new rules targeting deliveries worth less than €150Mon Jun 22 2026 - 06:00
Counting the eye-watering cost of being singleCensus data indicate as many as one in four Irish adults live in single-person households. It’s a high-priced way of lifeMon Jun 22 2026 - 06:00
‘She will be the talk of Paris when she gets back’: Coco steals show at Stoneybatter festivalLong queues form as people line up to dine al fresco on streets normally the preserve of cars and busesSun Jun 21 2026 - 19:49
Troubled retailer Rathwood says no refunds and no products for thousands of customersHome and garden shop contacted as many as 7,000 people who made purchases Sun Jun 21 2026 - 13:53
‘A close shave with a Dublin bus made me reconsider commuting by e-scooter’Traumatic brain injuries among child e-scooter users in Ireland have jumped by 50% in just 12 months. Alarmed medics say it is time to take actionSun Jun 21 2026 - 06:00
‘You just gotta calm down’: Trump says he told IsraelIsraeli military carried out a wave of deadly strikes in Lebanon on Friday after planned US-Iran talks in Switzerland were cancelledFri Jun 19 2026 - 20:02
Flogas price hikes set to leave some worse off by €400 a yearDomestic electricity to rise by 10.9% while its domestic gas is to go up by 11.8%Fri Jun 19 2026 - 17:55
Airport parking to fast-track: Seven last-minute tips to save on your summer travelsOn the Money: Book parking now, bring a good book and run like the clappers for passport control to cut down on needless holiday expenditureFri Jun 19 2026 - 11:40
‘Any prosecco in there?’ Blue skies and big hats at Catherine Connolly’s first Áras garden partyLine dancers, charity workers, old college friends and more rub shoulders in the Phoenix ParkWed Jun 17 2026 - 20:06
Worst of Iran war-related price hikes yet to hit, conference hearsWhile inflation has eased, underlying pressures remain intenseWed Jun 17 2026 - 13:23
Ticketmaster tale leaves some concernedReaders give their own perspective on story: ‘Ireland’s high ticket prices are linked to professional resellers’Wed Jun 17 2026 - 06:02
Which banks and fintechs have the best rates for Irish savers right now?We love to put money away - but few of us are actually earning anything on what we put asideTue Jun 16 2026 - 06:03
Irish Rail staff ‘appeared openly shocked by conditions’ aboard overheating train‘Passengers became visibly lethargic’ as carriage overheated during record temperatures, a reader saysTue Jun 16 2026 - 06:00
Gardaí acting on intelligence about Larry Murphy in new Deirdre Jacob, Jo Jo Dullard searchOperation taking place in different section of disused quarry near Kildare border that was examined in FebruaryMon Jun 15 2026 - 19:40
Phoenix magazine closing down after more than 40 years on newsstandsContributors informed that publication is going into voluntary liquidationMon Jun 15 2026 - 13:57
‘We’ll see movement upwards’: Experts suggest prices in Ireland will keep risingUS-Iran war’s aftershocks will keep prices of oil, food and packaging high for monthsMon Jun 15 2026 - 12:50
Revolut sent Elaine’s money to the wrong person, who didn’t return it Reader says app ignored the recipient saved in her contacts and prompted a random person with the same user name Mon Jun 15 2026 - 06:00
Birmingham Six campaigner knighted in British honours listChris Mullin, MP, journalist and novelist, covered compelling wrongful-conviction case in the 1980sFri Jun 12 2026 - 21:30
‘I tried the new Italian sandwich shop in Dublin that has crowds queuing’New Italian sandwich shop on Dublin’s Drury Street has crowds queuing for its delicious everything-from-scratch creationsFri Jun 12 2026 - 18:53
ECB rate hike: How much more will a mortgage cost in Ireland after today?Effect will be immediate for tracker mortgage holders, less so for other home loan borrowers but there may be more of the same aheadThu Jun 11 2026 - 17:26
ECB raises interest rates as Ireland’s mortgage holders urged to act nowFollow our updates as the ECB has raised interest rates - with one more rate increase likely before year endThu Jun 11 2026 - 17:22
Michelin-star chef Adam Nevin to take over at Glovers Alley in The Fitzwilliam HotelGlovers Alley announces it will reopen under its new head chef on September 2ndTue Jun 09 2026 - 10:49
Sarah shopped for clothes with Sinclair Dublin. It did not end wellExasperated reader sends us full email exchange she had with ‘Emma’ from online clothing retailerTue Jun 09 2026 - 06:00
Up to 7,000 Rathwood customers are warned they will only get ‘nominal sum’ backConsumer watchdog urges affected customers to act immediately to try to secure refunds through their credit or debit card providerMon Jun 08 2026 - 19:20
‘Ticketmaster are refusing to transfer the tickets, paid for by us, to our clients’: A reader looks for adviceA reader contacted us last week with a doozy of a story, having spent months trying to get a relatively simple issue dealt withMon Jun 08 2026 - 06:57
Parents warned not to buy or use baby sleep pillows due to risk of deathConsumer watchdog issued takedown notices which have so far prompted the removal of 1,115 listings of such productsMon Jun 08 2026 - 06:00
How can Ireland solve its dismal electric vehicle charging infrastructure?Ireland has 4,000 charging points which amounts to less than one third of the EU averageMon Jun 08 2026 - 06:00
I used AI to plan a holiday to Dublin. It took 45 seconds but there were some issues AI for travel planning is evolving from regular search tools listing options to detailed itineraries and actual reservations, but it’s not problem freeSun Jun 07 2026 - 06:00
Eating at Dublin’s first Popeyes: The man at the top of the queue tells me he’s been there for 26 hoursThird person in Blanchardstown queue to win ‘chicken for life’ admits he’s never tried the famed US offeringSat Jun 06 2026 - 14:01
