Karen O Leary

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Explore: 25 ways to enjoy the outdoors near you

We're all tired of our 5km, but brighter days are ahead.  Here are just some ideas that will help you rediscover the outdoors this spring(...)

Orla Cotter is pointing the way for Rebels

Orla Cotter has participated in 11 pre-seasons, 11 National Leagues and is now readying herself for an 11th Championship. In that period, she has gar(...)

The Division 2 final will be contested by Meath and Galway. Photograph: Inpho
Kilkenny and Galway to contest Camogie League Division 1 final

Kilkenny and Galway will cross swords in the Irish Daily Star Camogie League Division 1 final but only after two dramatic semi-finals. The Noresiders(...)

NCA details offenders penalised over pricing

Tesco, Supervalu and Marks and Spencer were among almost 40 businesses which fell foul of the National Consumer Agency (NCA) for failing to carry accu(...)

The decision to merge the NCA with the Competition Authority is is not even the current Government’s policy – it was announced in a budget speech by the late Brian Lenihan almost five years ago.
Is this a new era of consumer protection or just more of the same?

While consumers were promised a “watchdog with real teeth” by Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton as he publishe(...)

When asked by the Ipsos/MRBI survey if the below-cost selling of vegetables before Christmas was good for consumers in the long term, some 64 per cent said it was not. Some 66 per cent of those surveyed said retail multiples did not treat farm families fairly when buying their produce.
Most consumers against vegetable price wars

Just three in 10 people believe the sale of cheap vegetables has long-term benefits for c(...)

Karen O’Leary of the National Consumer Agency
Consumer watchdog: ‘It doesn’t help that a lot of the work we do isn’t sexy’

The biggest problems the National Consumer Agency (NCA) faces is that it can’t do what most people think it does. The agency, which has been charged w(...)

A butcher’s ‘no horsemeat’ sign after the scandal broke this year. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters
From horsemeat to Ryanair’s rethink: an eventful year for consumers

JANUARY l The year started with confirmation, of sorts, of something sensible people have known since cars first took to the roads: men reckon they’re(...)

Karen O’Leary: “There are certainly consequences to how we spend our money as there are consequences to everything that we do, but my job is to represent consumers and lower prices are good for the consumer”. Photograph: Eric Luke
National Consumer Agency chief welcomes grocery price war

The head of the National Consumer Agency has commended the State’s leading supermarkets for waging a vegetable price war in the run-up to Christmas(...)

Chief executive of the National Consumer Agency Karen O’Leary said nearly half of people surveyed had let gift vouchers go past their sell-by date. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
Almost half of consumers let gift vouchers go out of date

Almost half of consumers have lost out by letting gift cards or vouchers expire according to new research.The National Consumer Agency said 48 per cen(...)

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