I've just come back and the rate varied from 1.08 to 1.04...don't think theres much difference between here and the UK to be honest. We were shocked at how expensive everything was. Kids fancied beans on toast one lunch time so we went to Spar and they were 2.80 a tin ! Cheese is very expensive, so is bread. We ended up eating out all the time as it was cheaper. For all of us (2 adults, 2 teens and a 10 yr old) we got a meal, kids had pudding and we had a couple of rounds of drinks and it never came to more than 50 euros.