Waterstones online have their 150 top selling books of the year on a buy one get one free offer Waterstones deliver to Ireland . See the selection of BOGOF Books Here .
It  might be still worth checking the equivalent prices over on Amazon (free delivery at Amazon on orders over £25) to see how prices compare.

A new nationwide car service booking website for Ireland – called Mycarservice.ie is being advertised a lot on the radio . It sounds like a good idea – you just enter the details of the make and model of your car as well as mileage and they give you a price for the work . You can get quotes for a small service or a full service as well as other work such as new brake pads or timing belt.
There are garages / service centres all over Ireland where you can choose to get the work done. The prices seem to be the same where ever you choose to get the work done . We selected a few different locations and the price for a service on the same make and model of car was the same in each one. My car Service take a €10  booking fee and you pay the balance to the garage.
Sample prices:

Full Service and front and rear brake pads on a 2008 car , 60,000km

Fiat Panda 1.2 Petrol   €390.93
Opel Zafira 1.6 petrol   €442.53
Citroen c4 2l Deisel    €476.88
Kia Ceed 1.6 deisel   €453.09

Sample Prices for Full Service Only

1.6 l Petrol  Citroen  C2  €242.06
Fat Panda 1.2l Petrol  €195.71
Fiat Punto 1.6l Petrol   €244.22
2l Ford Mondeo (Petrol) €272.73

There seem  to be service centres available in every Irish county -but some counties only had one or two. Hopefully the numbers will grow as the idea catches on. Not sure if paying the same price for a car service in Roscommon as in Dublin will go down well with Roscommon people?  (They might think it should be less. ) But having a standard nationwide price and a standard list of the work to be carried out should help avoid any “rip off” worries.

We didn’t actually use any of the garages on My Car Service for servicing – we just tried out the website and checked the prices.

We can now get free delivery to Ireland on orders over £25 from Amazon UK.  The prices at Amazon are usually cheaper than the shops here in Ireland – and they always have special offers and discounts on certain items.
Latest Amazon Discounts on Video Games
Latest Amazon Electrical Discounts
Amazon Discounts on Jewellery
Discounted Laptops at Amazon

Amazon rarely do discount codes – but you can find the latest ones here:
Discount Codes for Amazon

With Amazon delivering almost  everything to Ireland from Toys to Tools , Books to Baby Equipment, CDs to Camcorders – it’s a one stop shop for your Christmas shopping . No need to drive up North – and at least Ireland gets the VAT payments.

Just be aware that because of EU rules on VAT the price you end up paying will be about 6% higher that that displayed on Amazon because of the difference in Irish VAT. Amazon have to charge Irish VAT on orders delivered to Ireland. (All EU based online shopping sites are legally obliged to do this if they sell more than €35K worth of goods into Ireland)
Also - make sure the Seller is shown as “Amazon” – because other sellers use Amazon website to sell goods – and the majority don’t deliver to Ireland or wil not offer free delivery.

Thanks to good old Joe Duffy and RTE – this book “Culchies Guide to Dublin” is going to be selling out fast. Amazon have a few copies left – and more on the way.  The book has what they say is “the most honest map of Dublin ever showing all of Dublin’s suburbs referenced with film certs PG , 15  18 – so you know whether you should wear a dress suit or flak jacket when visiting”.

Also available to order at Waterstones Online ISBN is 1856356353

If you are thinking of getting a new pre-pay phone from O2  – you can get €10 discount online if you use the code O2COUPON . Valid until Dec 31st 2009.   Find out more at O2 Ireland .
They are the only company with the new Palm Pre  smartphone