I have a day off work today, it's payday, I'm first up in the house my family are still sleeping, having a lovely breakfast, my kitchen is feeling cozy, it's starting to rain (I love the rain). The cup of tea I made is perfect. Couldn't get any better.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/revealed-irelands-biggest-polluters-and-their-failure-to-control-emissions/a1320311707.html

From an outsider perspective, it looks like a shoe in for Mary Lou to be the next taoisearch considering the polling for SF. However, one was wondering the likelihood of the next government still being FF-FG with Labour or the SD being the secondary party?

So earlier today I (34M) was attacked and threatened to get stabbed by a random who accused me of following his child.

Was on the way to a service station near Jobstown after seeing a friend. Outside the service station pushing around on scooters were a group of 5 or 6 kids, couldn't have been older than 5. Didn't think anything of them. As I come out with my shopping bag, I'm heading to the bus stop, but the kids are going in the same direction as well. They start jeering and saying I'm following them, why am I following them. Again, didn't think anything of it. Cross the road to go to the bus stop down the road.

Soon as turn the corner , I start seeing stones flying past me. I turn and two of the kids are throwing stones at me, shouting "we know you were following us!" Again, ignored them. Just kids. They scoot away and one shouts "were gonna tell on you." Okay??? So I go to the bus stop, bus is here in 6 min, cool, I start walking in a wide circle around the bus stop to get some steps in.

Bout 3 min later this fella comes barrelling towards me with a purpose and asks me if I'm following his children? That his kids are after coming to him terrified that some lads following them. I tell him no I'm literally walking around waiting for the bus.

He headbutts me, he stumbles back (I'm 2 inches taller than him, didn't hurt) but then he takes this metal pole he's holding and just starts swinging on me, telling me to f off from his kids before he stabs me. Tried to tell him I'm just waiting for the bus while defending myself but eventually just walked away. Came back with my mate from earlier to look for my glasses, and hopped on bus.

So yeah, scrotes raise scrotes young.

EDIT: Just because a few other comments have come up with questions il add on here.

1. I didnt attack the dad immediately because at that moment I thought it was just a dad defending his kids. And if my kids had said there's a dude following them at 7pm at night I'd be in full assault mode too.

2. By the time I realised the attack might be more racially motivated (I'm half- black, he was whiter than Roy Orbison), he had threatened to stab me. Easier to walk away and not get stabbed than fight and possibly be stabbed by a concealed weapon.

3. I'm just generally not a very violent person. Also I grew up with 4 brothers, so I can take lumps and stay standing. I just prefer talking things out rather than fists as last resort. Might seem weak to sum but I just don't wanna accidentally hurt someone over a misunderstanding.

Apologies for weird title.

But really, i am tired of this rainy weather. Haven't seen proper sunshine since last October. Next 10 days also will be just rains.

Awful awful weather. And i used to love rains, but this is just depressive as f.

Farmers are really at the recieving end though, all fields are turned into swamps.

No Irish potatoes for next year fellas.

After my question yesterday about forgotten Cadburys bar

Special shout out to u/Different-Class1771 for getting the bar that was three wishes for me

Here next question

What is your fav bar currently or discounted of yesteryear

Looking for other people's experiences on moving away from Ireland. Been here 10 years, mortgage on house and 2 small kids (2 and a 5 year old). The weather takes a big toll on our mental health.

When we first emigrated (not Spanish) it was only the two of us so it was easier. Now it's a harder choice - also hard to have short trips to sunny countries to get some vitD.

I can move to Spain and keep my job in Ireland, that's a nice piece of reassurance. Partner is a system engineer. We don't speak Spanish but speak other Latin based languages so it's going to be easy to learn it (I hope). We earn a combine income of 143K in Ireland but we pay 1400 monthly for creche alone.

Now the issue is all of the people we spoke about the move advised as to get the pink glasses out. The summer is terrible in Spain, work life balance is bad, cost of living is high, and so on.

We had a few friends who left Ireland for Spain and came back after a few months (!). My oldest will start school in September so it's a big choice for us. Weather is not the only thing but is the main one.

Would appreciate any experiences/advice and so on.

So I’m having a pint while I wait for the bus home from work and this American family walks in. The teenage kids sit at a table and the parents come up to the bar. They make a quip about a barman in Sligo saying he has the best pints of Guinness in the country and then order two pints of the black stuff. Local barman refutes those claims and yer man goes to sit with the kids while his wife stays at the bar next to me. The pints get their initial pour and are set to rest and yer wan grabs them to walk off. As she picks them up I give a quick wave of the hand and say “you want to put those down”. She looks really surprised and the 5 other people in the bar have bit of a good laugh at her expense. I was trying to help but I may have embarrassed this poor woman. Am I the asshole?

Anyone else waiting to hear back about IRC GOIPG results? All we were told is April and am really hoping we don't find out right at the end of the month.

A relative of mine passed recently. Not unexpected. She was a grand 'ol age and ready to go. Ces't la vie.

As the family were reviewing the condolences on RIP.ie (a great service and uniquely Irish... I think) we noticed a message from a local FF TD.

To say the family were shocked it putting it mildly. They were livid. The TD clearly had no sense of the deceased, and her extended family's, feelings towards FF (and FG, and especially FFG). Thinking it is OK to tarnish the book of condolences with their insincere twaddle is about as low as it gets.

I just want to take this opportunity to say fuck all politicians that behave like that. You know who you are... Anne Rabbitte.

Haven’t been in Dublin for a while, but was up with my son for two days, walking around visiting a few touristy things. He’s awaiting assessment and has issues with listening to us calling him, getting distracted, not anticipating danger etc. He’s just turned 8. Over the past two days I had to grab him by the collar a few times to stop him getting run over by a cyclist breaking lights. We’ve taught him to wait for the light before crossing over, so he will often make a start to cross when he sees the light. I had to grab and push him once when a delivery bike appeared from behind a parked bus and bruised his neck doing it. Did we just have an unlucky day or is it this bad always?

Dear reddit, this is my first post here, so please be nice to me, I welcome criticism, but I wish to only be given polite constructive criticism and due to the serious subject matter, please try to be respectful and mature, thank you.

In the 1930s and/or earlier, the father's family migrated to Britain from Nigeria, where my grandfather met my Canadian grandmother, my father was born in Britain, but moved to Ireland in the 2000s where he met my mother, me and my younger brother were born in galway, we lived in Salthill until I turned two, then we moved to a village on the other side of galway Bay, where I was homeschooled, I did have friends my own age, but I didn't really interact with the "outside world" until secondary school, it is important to note that even before secondary school, I had and still have a good understanding of the history between Ireland and Britain, in secondary school, l learned more about that specific part of history and met another Anglo-Irish person, but he was not very nice to me, I also met a German girl who was friendly with a Jewish girl, from what I saw, they had a good relationship, but I feel guilty whenever I tell people that I am British-Irish, but I feel worse when I hide my identity, l want to show people that Irish people and British people can be friends and that we should not judge eachother based on our backgrounds, nationalities, races, etc. So, I ask you reddit, what should I do?

Scam right? I live in the middle of nowhere and was weirded out by this. Brand new range rover and orange jacket, not sure what his plan was… sell me a shitty overpriced driveway upgrade?