Silverwex, I've been using creatine for about two years now. I currently use AST Micronized Creatine which I like quite well. The USN brand is a good pharmaceutical grade creatine which is basically all you need from creatine unless you want something that already has stuff like dextrose, taurine, ala, etc. in it. Those will increase the price greatly though and I'm not sure they make creatine uptake that much more effective. Not sure about in Ireland, but in the US dextrose can be bought super-cheap. Otherwise you could just mix the creatine with something that has about 35-40 grams of carbohydrates. I used to just mix it with stuff like Kool-Aid.