GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- Most of Ireland's young and well-educated workforce has grown up and is used to being paid among the highest salaries in Europe. x: 1482 2:50:05 PM

GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- The European Consumer Centre in Dublin processed 9500 consumer complaints in 2002. The bulk of these related to transactions within Ireland, but an increasing number are from returning holiday-makers, unhappy with the quality of goods and services purchased, or availed of, abroad. John Hearne: "ECC watchdog gives no cause for complaint" in The Irish Examiner x: 17 8:22:23 AM