TRUE love is priceless but not so if you want to buy a dozen red roses today, Valentine’s Day.

The abolition of the Groceries Order would be very good news for consumers, it was claimed today.

IN YOUR issue of October 25, Michael O’Farrell questions Eddie Hobbs’ accuracy that 80% of alcohol is still purchased in pubs (page 7, second item down).

THE phenomenal success of Eddie Hobbs’ Rip Off Republic put what had been the Sleepy Hollow of the Irish political landscape under popular scrutiny like never before.

TERRORISTS brought grief to London, nature’s forces terrorised New Orleans, while Eddie Hobbs threw the Government into panic over Rip Off Ireland.

Minister for Finance Brian Cowen has hit out at Rip Off Ireland presenter Eddie Hobbs’ claim that low-cost Ireland is a myth.

It should be a chastened and worried Fianna Fáil parliamentary party which gathers in County Cavan today to consider what state it is in and, more particularly, what it is doing wrong to provoke such an angry reaction among the electorate.

I WAS disgusted to learn that Deputy Donie Cassidy intends to recall the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise and Small Business, of which he is chairman, to investigate alleged inaccuracies in Eddie Hobbs’ TV programme, Rip Off Republic.

FURTHER debate about the level of taxation faced by consumers is expected after of Eddie Hobbs’ hit show Rip Off Republic puts transport costs under the spotlight tonight.

FIANNA FÁIL’S annual think-in next week will grapple with new ‘quality of life’ issues like childcare, long commuting times and the disintegration of community spirit that contributed to its two by-election losses this year as well as the Government’s falling support levels in opinion polls.

WITH reference to the complaints to the RTÉ Authority about Eddie Hobbs’ TV programme, Rip-off Ireland, I think they are largely unfounded and seem to fly in the face of everything I thought the PDs stood for.

THE reaction of Government TDs to Eddie Hobbs’ programme on RTÉ about the cost of living is as pathetic as it is insulting to the Irish consumer and taxpayer.

EQUITY investors who want to trade shares regularly should use British stockbrokers until the status of shares held in trust by Irish stockbrokers is changed to safeguard investors’ interests, the Consumer Association warned last night.