Bargains, rip-offs and sales.
A steal
Movie Bargain If you go to the cinema often, consider Cineworld's unlimited card. For €17.50 per month, you can go to the cinema as many times and make as many bad movie choices as you want. You can even use the card at Cineworld cinemas in the UK. www.ugccinemas.ie
Cut-price hols For those who haven't booked a holiday yet, there is much consolation online. Check out www.budgettravel.ie, which has last minute deals for week-long holidays in Crete and Corfu for under €250. Another website, www.lastminute.ie, offers 14 nights in Morocco for €469, or seven nights in Sardinia for €449. All last-minute deals are subject to availability and price changes,of course, but they'll lift your spirits.
Team spirit Gaelic football, hurling and as assortment of sloganised county ones are on sale for €5 off the normal price at www.pride.ie. All 32 counties are available at €20 per shirt. Check out the "Bargain Basement" section, especially if you're a size small or medium, where the shirts are €9.92.
Heelie heaven Heelies cost about €120 in the shops. Buy them online at www.wholemoontrading.co.uk for £20 (€31.80) including post/packing. The quality is fine, although they are unbranded.
BLOW THE SSIA
The sun is on its way . . . we hope. So splash out on some new garden furniture. Bellissima in Cork has a table and chair set that can be left outside all year round. The table has a ceramic top and costs €2,900, while each chair costs €450 (www.bellissima.ie). If you haven't got pockets quite that deep, there is up to 50 per cent off garden furniture until Monday at Meadows and Byrne branches (www.meadowsandbyrne.ie). We hear, too, that there's a good selection at outHaus, on the Airways Industrial Estate, Santry, Dublin 9 (www.outhaus.ie).
Thanks this week to Leah McBride, David Gardiner and Eoin Lyons
• If you spot a sale, a bargain or a rip-off, email salestalk@irish-times.ie.