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Thu 08 Aug 2008Cost-conscious tourists give Irish car hire websites the red light
Why is it cheaper to hire a car in Ireland via a foreign website than an Irish one, asks Conor Pope
WE ARE ACCUSTOMED to paying over the odds for pretty much everything in this country. When retailers are confronted and asked to explain why a certain product costs 30 or 40 per cent more in Ballina than in Belfast, there is usually a lot of bluster about higher transportation costs, taxes and wages, only some of which makes any degree of sense.
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