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A RECENT consumer survey shows that Irish grocery shoppers pay on average with the exception of Denmark 25 per cent more than their fellow EU counterparts.

The survey was based on a basket of common food stuffs that would be bought by ordinary families throughout the 27 countries of the Common Market.

It included meat, bread, butter, eggs, fruit and vegetables.

Even locally-produced Irish products still showed a 25 per cent mark-up!

Having just returned from my local supermarket here in Britain I was appalled to find a 250g pack of Kerrygold priced at 85p while right next to it a 500 gram of Lurpak was 95p and that from allegedly the dearest country in Europe.

What price patriotic shopping?

Maurice Healy

Lichfield,

Staffordshire