Readers Blog: The costs of everyday life in ripoff Ireland

I’m fed up being confronted by employees of companies with their hand out looking for money for extras. Whether its your phone network, your electricity supplier, or your going out shopping for daily necessities, all shops’ prices on everything seem like a bouncy castle — one day it’s up, the next it’s down.

Speed cameras, toll charges, hospital parking, buying a car, nothing can be taken for granted as being done for a sincere reason any more.