Sick of being ripped off? Stay out the car, the bank and the chemist

HAVE you ever tried to change your bank account from one bank to another? Or have you ever tried to change solicitors? Do you know how much you pay for a gallon of petrol?

Or what the mark-up is on a packet of paracetamol over the counter in a chemist’s shop?

Let me put all those questions another way. When are we going to see some real competition at work in Ireland? We’ve had endless talk about it, indeed some political parties claim they’re the only people interested in promoting competition. As it happens, those political parties are in government, and have been for the last eight years.