One Big Switch members are set to save hundreds of euro on electricity bills.

Householders are hurting from high electricity prices, but most are too busy or find it too difficult to shop around for a better deal.

Almost 16,000 people have signed up to the Big Energy Switch — just over a week after the campaign to unlock group discounted electricity and gas was launched.

A new campaign is hoping to recruit thousands of consumers in a bid to negotiate group energy deals for residential and business customers.

VIVAS Group, the owner of VIVAS Health, today announced that agreement has been reached for 70% of its shares to be purchased by Hibernian Group.

THE arrival of the firstborn brings out the best in doting dads but enthusiasm wanes thereafter, according to a new survey.

VIVAS Health has expressed disappointment at the decision byt the European Court of First Instance to dismiss Bupa's challenge of risk equalisation in Ireland.

EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has threatened to take the Government to court over the preferential treatment they give to the Voluntary Health Insurance (VHI).

Liam Casey of PCH International was named as Ernst and Young ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ at a ceremony in Dublin last night.

The inaugural National Health Screening Month was launched in Dublin today by VIVAS Health.

BUPA’S subsidy payments to health insurance rival VHI could have been quartered if a fairer method of calculation was used, a consultant’s report has claimed.

Irish entrepreneurs will share the secrets of their success at the NovaUCD Entrepreneurs Live seminar series which commences on 3 April and runs until 24 April.

VIVAS Health is more interested in complaining than competing, the VHI insisted yesterday after learning the company has urged the European Commission to take immediate action against the State-owned private health insurer for abusing its dominant position.

HEALTH insurance giant VHI last night demanded the Government clear up the law on its rival insurers so that BUPA Ireland will have to pay its €52 million a year community rating bill.

MORE than 90% of BUPA customers up for renewal in February have contacted VIVAS Health to enquire about its products and services, VIVAS said yesterday.

EUROPEAN Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy is preparing to insist the Government changes the VHI’s favoured status in Ireland’s health insurance market.

SINCE it entered the Irish market, nearly 10 years ago, BUPA Ireland insisted it would never accept the imposition of blanket risk equalisation.

Minister for Health Mary Harney today defended a controversial Government scheme designed to bring fairness to health insurance after BUPA announced it was quitting Ireland in protest.

Insurance provider Hibernian Direct is to offer a health insurance plan to its customers in partnership with VIVAS Health, it was announced today.

VHI customers whose premiums have more than doubled since 1999 will have to pay 12.5% more for their care plans from September.

VIVAS Health have announced plans to become the first health insurer in Ireland to offer cover for laser eye surgery.

The Government is protecting the dominant position of VHI in the Irish health insurance market rather than fostering competition, it was claimed today.

The new private health insurance company that entered the market today promised to challenge the lack of competition in the industry.

Ireland's newest private health insurance company has vowed to offer policies to customers at significantly lower prices than those offered by the VHI and BUPA.

AIB today announced that it is taking a 30% stake in Vivas Health, a new privately-owned health insurance company, which plans to launch immediately.

A new entrant into the Irish health insurance market is due to be launched later today.