Maplin  - the Electronics retailer - have discount vouchers available to anyone who signs up for their newsletter. You can get as much as £25 off when you spend over £300 . Sign up now for your money off vouchers at the Maplin Website.
The vouchers are also valid in Maplin stores in Ireland and the UK.
Maplin deliver to Ireland for £7.25 an order. They sell a massive range of stuff - from tools to Satnav ; from batteries to remote control toys. A techies paradise.

Vouchers are personalised and are valid for about 1 month from the day you claim them.

The Apple online shop normally charge €7.90 delivery for orders under €121 Euro - which can be quite a lot if all you want to buy is an Ipod Shuffle or accessories for your Mac. On Monday 8th December there will be Free Delivery on every order at Apple Store Ireland. So get shopping now .

Buy cases for your Ipod, software for your Mac, Headphones , Speakers, Cables - no minimum spend Free Delivery in Ireland for one day only.

Viking Direct have clearance electronics items on sale all the time. See this weeks bargains here.

One of the best deals this month is the Digital Camera and Printer package for just €150 . A saving of around €117 Euro  a reduction of over 40%.

See if the offer is still available HERE

The Printer is a Canon Selphy CP740 - which is available at Pixmania for €111.75 Euro.
This  Canon printer has a 2inch LCD screen so you can comfortably view your picture before making those last few touch-ups using several in-built functions, such as the skin tone feature. Equipped with a memory card reader, the Selphy CP740 can print your digital photos in just 58 seconds for postcard formats.

The Camera is a Canon Ixus 70 - which ia a 7Mega Pixel camera . It is a stylish, very compact, well-built point and shoot digital camera . It was released in 2007 - so it’s not one of the latest models - but it is a good camera and the best price we could find was £129 GBP - or about €155 Euro

So the typical  cost   of  the camera and printer bought online separately would be about €267 Euro -
The Viking price is €117 less than that. Vikings previous  price for the combination was €278 Euro.
The special offer price is €123.99 Plus VAT = €150  including Free Delivery

The hands free  Garmin Nuvi 860 Satellite Navigation System has voice activated control - it will  listen to your voice commands.  Currys Ireland are advertising the Garmin 860 Sat Nav for €529.99 - saying that you save €70 Euro. But - you can buy the Garmin 860 online at Pixmania for €449 plus delivery of €12.90 - total price €461.90. That is a saving of €62 Euro when compared to Currys price. There are plenty of other good deals on Pixmania. If you use one of the Pixmania Discount codes Here - you will get another €7 Euro discount .

Northern Ireland residents can get it at Pixmania UK for £339 GBP plus £7.40 delivery. Use the UK Pixmania Discount codes to get £10 off

With the nUvi 860’s speech recognition function, you can control your GPS  with your voice while keeping both hands on the wheel, thanks to the remote pad designed for steering wheels. Simply state the address and the nüvi 860 will take you there. The nüvi 860 also has a large 4.3-inch touch screen. The Garmin 860 has another great feature for safe drivng - it reads out text messages when you mobile phone is connected up via the Bluetooth connection!  It also has an FM transmitter, allowing you to send music from your GPS through your in-car speakers without adding any extras!

Pixmania is the online arm of the DSG group who also own PC World, Dixons and Currys. You can buy anything  from a digital camera to a laptop, a Nintendo Wii to a Dyson cleaner. Top brands at great prices.

They have released new discount codes which enable anyone to get up to €50 euro off your orders. The codes are valid until November 11th 2008 - so could come in handy for some early Christmas shopping.

Pixmania Discount Code Page

Creative Zen are probably the biggest Mp3 player brand after the Apple Ipod.
Creative Labs have MP3 players to suit all budgets - see below for a selection available from Advanced MP Players in the UK. Delivery to Ireland is £12.99 per order. Delivery in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK is free on orders over £150 GBP - and from £2.99 for smaller orders.
Advanced MP3 players also stock Ipods and Mp3 players from iRiver, Sony , Samsung and others.

Pixmania Ireland have released new discount codes - they are valid until October 14th 2008.
Get the discount codes for Pixmania here

The discounts range from €7 euro off purchases over €300  up to €70 euro discount on purchases over €2000 euro. They are not massive discounts - but the prices at Pixmania are already cheaper than buying from the major shops in Ireland - so an extra discount is an added bonus. Just enter the codes when you go to checkout to get the money off.

Maplin sell thousands of electronic products from cables, connectors and components to disco, HiFi, computers and GPS equipment. Maplins have a few shops in Ireland - but no Maplin.ie or Maplins.ie web sites.

Not to worry - Irish residents can get those great prices here at the UK Maplin site
Delivery charges to Ireland aren’t listed - but we were charged just £7.25 for an order of 6 bulky items.
very charges per order. You can pay with Paypal as well as credit cards. The prices are in sterling - but with the current exchange rates it will usually work out cheaper than buying in a Maplin in Ireland.
Northern Ireland and UK delivery is free on online orders over £35 .

Locations of Maplin stores in Ireland - and Northern Ireland
Maplin Dublin  ( Blanchardstown Shopping Centre and  Jervis Shopping Centre )
Maplin Cork - Blackpool Retail Park
Maplin Limerick -Childers Retail Park
Maplin Galway  - Wellpark  Shopping Centre
Maplin Dundalk  Retail Park
Maplin Derry - Crescent Link Retail Park
Maplin Belfast  Connswater  and Boucher Centre

Maplin Online

Dixons - currently don’t allow online shopping in the Republic of Ireland.
Dixons is part of the DSG group - who have an online shop at Pixmania.
You should be able to find almost everything that Dixons sell at Pixmania - and delivery to Ireland is available. They don’t sell larger white goods like Washing Macheines etc. - but they have a wide range of Digital Cameras, Camcorders, Computers, MP3 players, Televisions and more

If you don’t want online shopping - here are the locations of Dixons stores in Ireland.

Dixons Liffey Valley Shopping Centre - Clondalkin Dublin 22
Dixons Jervis Centre Dublin 2
Dixons The Square - Tallaght
Dixons Blanchardstown Centre
Dixons Pavillion Swords - Co Dublin
Dixons 67 William Street Limerick
Dixons Scotch Hall - Drogheda
Dixons Ballincollig Shopping Centre - Cork

The iRobot Roomba is a  vacuum cleaner that hoovers  the floor by itself .  Basically - you just plug in the base station where the Roomba will return to when it needs charging - and you let it loose around your rooms to vacuum the floors for you.

Details updated April 2011

Roomba Robotic Vacuum

There are not many places that sell the Roomba in Ireland - or even online . But you can BUY an iRobot Roomba online here for around  €380 delivered to Ireland. ( Now back in stock for 2011.

You can alao get Irobot Roombas and spare parts for them online at Currys Partmaster - delivery to Ireland is just £6.99 -

Irobot Roomba is also available to buy online at Pixmania Ireland . There are various models available 530 560 555 563 - they are all pretty much the same basic Roomba with or without some of the extras.  You can also get a Irobot Scooba - which will wash the floors for you. That will be my next purchase. It has had mainly good reviews.

Similar robotic hoovers by Electrolux are selling for around €1000 Euro!

Review: I bought a Roomba 560 in November 2008 and have been really impressed with it .
The instructions supplied are simply and easy to understand mainly because there is very little to do with the Roomba, just charge it and its away to go.
I have a bigger than average house but Roomba easily copes with cleaning the whole down stairs, supplying about 2 hrs of constant vacuuming on one battery charge, it docked itself and after about two hours of charging was ready to go again.

I have a mixture of flooring types, Tiles, wood flooring and a few rugs - the Roomba does them all. Emptying the dirt  bin you can see that the Roomba has done a good job.
The Roomba easily navigates around the house- and does a better job of cleaning than I did - especially under beds

The “light houses” supplied are easy to set up, just put batteries in, decide where you want them and roomba does the rest.  The lighthouses act as sort of homing beacons for Roomba, confining it to one room before guiding it directly to the next, they also assist in getting roomba back to the charging station.

When i want to do upstairs - I just pick the Roomba up carry it upstairs and set it off, obviously it can’t get back to it charging dock (downstairs) so we leave it hoovering away until it runs out of steam, then pick it up and stick it back on the dock.

It is a brilliant invention - worth every penny.
It would be a great Christmas present for a loved one who usually does all the hoovering - but expect funny looks when you tell friends you bought your wife/husband/partner  a hoover for Christmas!

Irish Residents - buy your  Roomba Here

More Roombas Here

Also available in Ireland at Pixmana  -  SEE ALL ROOMBA PRODUCTS

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