Consumer affairs and financial advice from Four Live

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our email newsletter or our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Four Live is an RTE TV show that is on every weekday at 4pm and introduced by Maura Deenane. They do great coverage of Irish consumer issues. Their consumer expert Tina Leonard takes on consumer...

Beware of online scams when shopping online

More and more people are shopping online now, so it makes sense to educate yourself to the online scams that a person can fall for online. The Irish Times ran an article recently on how Irish shoppers are now targets for scammers. The following links will help you avoid be scammed: Wikipedia have a full...

Save money by switching providers

The National Consumer Agency carried out a recent survey that showed 79% of consumers who had switched product or service providers in the last 12 months had saved money. The providers included electricity, car insurance, mobile phone service, TV, Broadband and banking. The findings are instructive: Most...

Recommended: Jill Kerby personal finance expert…

Jill Kerby is one of Ireland’s best known personal finance journalists. She writes weekly columns for The Sunday Times and has a weekly syndicated column, “MoneyTimes” in nine regional newspapers. I have been constantly impressed by Jill each time I see her on TV or hear her on the radio. Her advice is...

Small business owner? Refused a loan by your bank?

If you own a small business and trying to get a loan from your bank without success, there is one more thing you can try. In the December 2009 budget, the Minister for Finance introduced a simple review process for small businesses and farmers that have been refused a loan from their bank. The Credit Review...

Living together, kids and money – how much do you know?

Living together, but not married? You just got some new rights. The Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 provides for a redress system for financially dependent cohabiting partners in both same sex and opposite-sex relationships – who are not married or in a civil...