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In an era when we were paying through the nose for most goods, the online revolution and discount supermarkets supplied new ways of bargain-hunting
OVER THE past 10 years Irish consumers have consistently been asked to pay more than most other EU residents for food, alcohol, cars, clothes, electronics, dentists, doctors, medicines, restaurants, games, music, cinemas, concerts, fuel, electricity and houses. It is, in fact, difficult to think of a single thing that costs less in the Republic of Ireland than it does elsewhere in Europe.
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