The days of paying excessive fees for car rental elsewhere in the EU could soon be at an end.

A young woman has been praised by a judge for her bravery in fighting off a sex attacker who had dragged her to the ground on the green of a south Dublin housing estate.

The boom in internet shopping has resulted in soaring numbers of consumer complaints, with a new European report showing a trend in sales of dodgy slimming pills and other pharmaceutical products.

BUYER beware: A consumer watchdog has warned people not to be conned by offers of cut-price tickets to Euro 2012 and the Olympics ahead of an expected surge in online demand.

HAVING your ear bitten off is not something that should happen in a civilised society, a High Court judge said yesterday as he awarded €40,000 damages to a 28-year-old carpenter who was attacked in a Dublin nightclub.