Nine industrial buildings in the much-lauded Tougher Business Park at Newhall, Naas, Co Kildare, are to be offered for sale or for lease on the instru(...)

John Halligan: supermarket giant Tesco was “rumoured to dub this country ‘Treasure Island’”

Ireland is in the grip of a nutritional recession because of food poverty, the Dáil has heard amid calls for the Government to(...)

Supermarkets should freeze prices on essential items, the Dáil has been told. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times

The Government should follow other EU member states and hold talks with major supermarket chains to have them introduce a two-year price freeze(...)

Angela Berney and her daughter Jacinta, from Ballymun, at the Aldi shop on Parnell Street in Dublin. The best performing supermarket in the last quarter was Aldi, which increased its market share by just under 31 per cent. Photograph: Alan Betson

Irish consumers are shopping at the German discount supermarkets in greater numbers than ever before, according to research published this morn(...)

Dunnes stores; retailer accounted for 18.3 per cent of the advertising spend in the 12 weeks before Christmas, just ahead of Aldi at 16.9 per cent and Lidl at 16.8 per cent

The battle for the hearts and trollies of consumers last Christmas was fought out through advertising, with Dunnes Stores emerging as the top s(...)

Fair brews: Coffee generally has a good fairtrade reputation, but what of our other daily household foodstuffs? Photograph: getty images
Ethical shopping on the cheap

If you throw a bunch of Fairtrade bananas in your shopping trolley, can you save the world? Sadly, being a truly ethical shopper – concerned fo(...)

Armed only with a shopping list and a critical eye, Pricewatch went looking for the winner of our inaugural Supermarket Badge of Honour. We di(...)

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