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# Spend

Last year
2023
RTÉ barter account spent €5,000 on flip flops and €4,200 to private members' club in London
5 Jul 2023
73.7k
140
All time
Card spend increase last month in pubs, restaurants and hotels compared to 2019, AIB says
19 Aug 2020
18.0k
12
Chelsea free to sign players again in January as transfer ban is reduced
6 Dec 2019
4.6k
7
Dunnes Stores takes top spot in supermarket rankings for second time
13 Feb 2017
15.7k
26
Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil spent thousands of euro targeting voters with Facebook ads
14 Jan 2017
6.5k
36
Water meters are not the new e-voting machines - they cost us a lot more
4 Dec 2016
16.3k
181
The Health Department is getting half a billion in extra funding to try to fix some problems
11 Oct 2016
5.8k
18
Enda Kenny is saving money by reading more news online
17 Jun 2016
15.5k
51
Poll: How much do you plan to spend on Christmas presents?
11 Dec 2015
21.8k
51
Buy a latte every morning before work? Here's how much money you're frittering away
6 Oct 2015
29.7k
42
A look inside Mondo, a bank that's just an app
22 Aug 2015
11.4k
18
These are the 10 companies that spend the most on advertising
11 Jul 2015
29.0k
43
Here's how much the Taoiseach's department has spent on photography since 2002
5 Feb 2015
20.3k
49
Here are the tricks shops use to make you spend more money
22 Dec 2014
34.1k
33
Irish Water isn't fixing more leaks - or spending more on infrastructure
22 Dec 2014
13.1k
72
It's going to be more expensive to take a taxi next year
19 Dec 2014
16.0k
66
Poll: How will your Christmas spend compare to last year?
12 Dec 2014
6.5k
18
Phil Hogan 'personally signed off on' funding relating to Irish Water consultants
28 Sep 2014
20.0k
77
HSE buys three Harley-Davidson motorcycles for €66k
13 Jun 2014
39.3k
153
Here’s how the government spent more than €100m on banking sector advice
22 Feb 2014
11.5k
56
Irish Water to appear before Public Accounts Committee following consultancy spend revelations
13 Jan 2014
7.2k
58
State spent €16,832 on dignitaries' gifts of 'mutual appreciation' since 2003
3 Nov 2013
8.5k
46
HSE spend on new primary care centres falls
19 Jul 2013
4.1k
3
Goodbye Hotmail, hello Microsoft Outlook
19 Feb 2013
12.4k
29
Leap card: Daily Luas spend capped, and auto-top-up on the way
10 Jan 2013
13.3k
27
Burton's Social Protection department spend €5k of public money on party
16 Dec 2012
27.8k
160
HSE spends around €10,000 on appointment texts
18 Oct 2012
6.0k
32
Timely Budgetary Archive Public Warning of the Day
16 Sep 2012
4.3k
4
When do the post-Christmas sales start?
26 Dec 2011
29.0k
35