Electric Ireland has become the latest energy provider to increase its prices for both electricity and gas. Their Electricity rates are going up by 23.4% with gas increasing by 24.8%. It comes after Bord Gais and Energia raised prices too in the last fortnight.

For more on this, Kieran was joined on The Hard Shoulder by John Fitzgerald Adjunct Professor in Economics at Trinty College Dublin...

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