Technology, church music, bicycles, and life in Ireland
Parcel Motel is a great way to overcome delivery restrictions and outlandish courier costs when buying mail order in Ireland. The service gives you a virtual delivery address in Northern Ireland, and then redirects your parcel to a locker of your choosing for you to pick up in a 48 hour window. And with many […]
If you bank with AIB, KBC or the Bank of Ireland you’ll have been able to use their contactless debit cards for the last couple of years. However Ulster Bank in the Republic of Ireland do not offer a contactless debit card. They have contactless on their ROI credit card, and they have it on […]
The UK department store House of Fraser only has one branch in Ireland, in the Dundrum shopping centre in Dublin. It’s a nice enough store, but the prices charged to Irish customers are not always the most competitive, particularly when compared to the same products in the store’s UK branches. This is a problem that […]
With online booking comparison sites (I like to use CarTrawler) and increased competition in the car hire market, there are some great bargains to be had. But when you turn up to hire the car, you can often be stung for some very expensive extras. Earlier this month, we hired a ‘compact’ car in Salerno from […]
One of the annoying things about living in Ireland is not being able to get things delivered easily and cheaply. Online shopping from the likes of eBay or Amazon can bag you some great bargains, until you realise that the seller won’t ship to Ireland, or will charge you a fortune in international postage. Parcel […]
Whether you’re happy about it or not, we have the TV licence here in Ireland, and it costs each household €160 a year. According to wikipedia, it provides approximately half the revenue to RTÉ. But it must also cost an awful lot of money for An Post to administer and collect, and I can’t help but […]
