{"id":196641,"date":"2025-12-17T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196641\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:50:07","slug":"kilkenny-design-fined-e600-for-consumer-law-breaches-at-landmark-dublin-store-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196641\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilkenny Design fined \u20ac600 for consumer law breaches at landmark Dublin store \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Regulators have fined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kilkenny-design\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kilkenny-design\/\">Kilkenny Design<\/a> \u20ac600 for failing to display the price of goods for sale at its landmark store in central Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/competition-and-consumer-protection-commission-ccpc\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/competition-and-consumer-protection-commission-ccpc\/\">Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC)<\/a> on Wednesday detailed recent action taken against 13 businesses for failing to comply with laws designed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/consumer-protection\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/consumer-protection\/\">protect their customers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Kilkenny Design was issued with two fixed-payment notices of \u20ac300 each for failing to display correct prices at its shop on Nassau Street in Dublin, according to the commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A CCPC inspector found that, in October, the store had breached an EU regulation requiring shops to show the prices they are charging for the goods they sell. According to the CCPC, these fixed-payment notices must be paid within 28 days or the business will face the threat of prosecution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Kilkenny Design is a well-known department store chain, with shops around the Republic that specialise in selling products made by Irish designers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Other businesses fined included Homesavers in Monaghan Retail Park; Mastersons Centra in Carrick on Shannon, Co Leitrim; and Eurogiant, Cloonybeirne, Co Roscommon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The commission issued compliance notices, which direct traders to remedy a breach of consumer law, to Caragh Jewellers, Killarney, Co Kerry and The Huntsman Inn, College Road, Galway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">CCPC member Patrick Kenny said that at this time of year it was \u201cmore vital than ever that prices are clearly and correctly shown in every shop, pub and restaurant in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regulators have fined Kilkenny Design \u20ac600 for failing to display the price of goods for sale at its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,11756,42499,61,60,104773],"class_list":{"0":"post-196641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-competition-and-consumer-protection-commission-ccpc","10":"tag-consumer-protection","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-kilkenny-design"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}