FG leads fight for consumer on cost hikes

THERE can be no excuse for the exorbitant prices being charged by some leading British retail chains in this country which stand accused, and rightly so, of blatantly ripping off consumers.

That Irish people are paying through the nose for most goods is well documented in studies ranking Ireland among Europe’s most expensive places.

Further damning proof, if it were needed, has come from a Fine Gael survey which claims that Ireland’s rip-off epidemic is catching.