I bought a Canada goose hat on Saturday and today it's gone. I had it three days. RIP Canada Goose hat. I don't have any hats cause I keep losing them. Don't know how it happens but another hat has hit the dust.

I am no one. I got my DNA tested. So I'm 73% Irish. Whatever who fucking cares. I want to visit Ireland and bond. Not in an overbearing American way. Just shut up, buy a person a pint and listen. Get stoned and look at the cliffs and be happy to be there. I drink too much at times. I'm not saying you all do, but I do. It's nothing I can stop. But I just try to curb it at times. Best I can do. So whatever. Enjoy life. I would like to meet anyone of you for a pint. I have an old school friend Leigh from Sligo. No idea where that is. N17. Just be yourself and be awesome in Fellowship. You can do it. Whatever it is. Yes you can. If I can resonate with anyone here with this post it will be worth it. It's just a post.

So, I was only due to start there 6 months, which was agreed on beforehand and fine. Afterwards, landlady said she was giving it to her niece who was starting college nearby in UCD.

Sadly, 3 weeks later, I saw it back on Daft at a 30% increase. I received back my deposit, so I didn't complain. But this feels just plain wrong.

I created then HowMuchRent.com to track prices that properties are advertised at, over time, so others can see if there is any such big jump. Spoiler, its still occurs from the data.

Let rip.

Táim ag filleadh go leaba.

I was involved in a car accident today. The Garda came and said I was not at fault at all. The other vehicle (100% at fault) was totalled and mine has minor damage that I can fix myself. I've been driving for over 20 years with no accidents or tickets, and have a no-claims bonus to that I don't want to lose.

My question is: In this case, where I don't want to contact my insurance company, and where I don't need need insurance money to repair my vehicle - what do I do? I am new to this country and need help.

So far, I've not reported it to my insurance company. In Ireland, how do things work? In this case where I am not at fault, what are the repercussions if the other driver contacts his own insurance company? Will that affect me in any way? How do I retain my no claims bonus and no accident history? I understand that insurance companies keep records of claims paid out and this leaves me wondering: on my policy, if I don't have a claim (because their insurance company would pay) would I maintain my no claims history? Also, if I don't seek any damages from their insurance company or notify my own, would my insurance penalise me in any way?

I'm used to systems in other countries where you are able to maintain your no claims history so long as you're not at fault. I understand Ireland works differently than most other countries and I'm seeking your advice.

In the best case scenario - I pay for my small repairs myself and maintain my discounts. However, I might as well report it if my insurance will penalise me in any way?

Are there any lawyers or insurance employees that would like to weigh in? If not publicly then please message me. Thanks in advance.

I get the bus to and from work pretty much every day. I usually bring a cup of tea with me and have never ever been told off for this before.

A few days ago one bus driver told me to be careful, obviously not to bring them on again.

Being stubborn and obstinate I chanced my arm again today thinking I wouldn’t see him.

I was wrong. He asked me did I forget and said next time he won’t let me on.

Oops. And yes, I can understand why they don’t want hot drinks on a bus. Still, I’ve never ever had an issue with this before. I suppose there’s a first time for everything.

What have these 2 places got in common???

Every sign post for Lahnich is spelled Lehinch and every sign post for Olygate is spelled Oilgate!!

Taking my daughter to do her driving test (second time). The whole scenario is like asking the SS for a visa. They act like they are almighty little emperors and all these rules are super intimidating for kids. Not fucking fair. They would not act like that if they meet a middle aged farmer or similar.

Rant over, sorry

This has been building for awhile. When I had a guide dog I needed the disability space for her. I've had people with buggies push me out of the way, roll over her paws in a malicious way.

Now she's passed away plus Before I had her. I use a cane. I still sit in the disability spot because it's the closest seating area, I can't see well and have balance issues, otherwise I wouldn't be taking up the space. The cane folds up small and I usually have it on my lap or in the side pocket of my backpack so I do understand that as a young person I don't 'look' disabled so I've had situations where older people have yelled at me for sitting there. Usually if I explain they understand. Sometimes I like to unfold my cane and stand up just to make them feel bad for jumping to conclusions 😂

I almost posted this a few months ago when a woman on the train tried to push me out of the way as I was getting on the train because she wanted the disability spot. She loudly announced to the whole train how much she needed the spot. I sat down and pointed out that I needed it as well sns that shut her up when people started staring (there was space for both of us because the train actually has decent disability spaces so there was literally no need.)

Today was on another level because this time I was already sitting on the disability seat. These two ladies came on with suitcases I think they were tourists or they could be newly here. I had my bags next to me. They started pointing at my bags and the seat by them. The two of them were getting aggressive about it for no reason. I was going to move my bags but not fast enough for them apparently. (To make matters worse I was just out of hospital and my vision was worse than usual after some medication they gave me and I'm exhausted). One of them almost kicked my bags so I got up kinda in a rage to sit somewhere else. I was trying to move past one of them and she hit/punched my bag for no reason probably just because I wasn't moving fast enough. All this so they could sit there with their suitcase. I had enough. My mom was sitting further back (she doesn't take up disability spots she feels she doesn't have the right to. Which fair play) she was calm but stern telling them there was no need to do that and told them to stop before they could do it again. They pretended they didn't understand her. I did lose my tenper a bit and half yelled that this is a disability spot. I said I sat there for a reason I have a disability and there was no need to be so aggressive. I said the spot isn't for suitcases ye have no right to treat me like that. Suddenly they understood English perfectly snd started apologising when people started staring.

Where is the decency gone lads? It's actually disgusting how I've been treated all because people want a space for their suitcases or they want more leg room or they think because they chose to have kids they're the most important people in the world. You chose to have your crotch goblins. I didn't choose to have my disability. You're not the main character grow up. We can share the space.

I just needed to rant and tell people to please be more mindful. I never judge people for sitting in a disability seat because I know sometimes a disability isn't obvious but there are times when it's blatant like today. Please don't take a disability spot if you don't need it. Be kind to people and for the love of God be patient. If someone is in the disability spot they're not going to be able to move at the speed of light.

Also please don't make this an anti foreigners post. That's not what this is about. I was just frustrated that they pretended not to understand when they clearly did and that they thought having extra space for their suitcases when there was plenty of space on the bus made it okay to disrespect me and my stuff.

35(m) Irish, looking for a change in career. Need some advice. I always wanted to become a tradesman, work with my hands. Carpentry interests me the most. How in the hell would I go about starting a new career like that? Will a tradesman even take on a guy at my age as an apprentice? Do I go through FAS? And what kinda pay could I expect starting out?

I look after the elderly and people with disabilities. I've been doing this for a decade. It's draining and there's no money to be made in it. I'm sick of giving everything and getting nothing back. I don't wanna be poor anymore. This life is stressing me out.

So I’ve been picking up empty bottles and cans anywhere I can find them the last few weeks for a few euro.

Got 10 euro and 40 cent today.

Life is pretty good when free money is the highlight of your day.

… and not once person has stopped to say, “OooOoooooOoohhh, new shoes?”

My bus was 20 minutes late today and as a result I was about 10 / 15 minutes late to work. My boss was absolutely pissed. Both of them gave me a lacing. So embarrassing.

Now to be fair, I should have contacted them directly instead of asking a colleague to say I’d be late so that bit was my fault.

But the being late itself was not my fault. Fuck sake.

Fuck Bus Eireann. Absolute disgrace.

Am I missing something? I'm a single mum with three kids, I claim jobseekers allowance and work part time on average 15 hours a week so don't qualify for the Working Family Payment.

When I look online for medical card thresholds it seems that I'm way over, even though bills are a struggle sometimes. I applied for a medical card about 2 years ago and was refused, though I do qualify for a GP visit card for myself and the kids. There is NO WAY I can afford health insurance but I'm scared something will happen like a broken bone (regular kid stuff) and I'll be hit with massive bill.

When I talk to family and friends about this, they seem confused. A lot of them are in full time jobs earning €32K+ and somehow have medical cards even though they're well over the threshold and have no health exemptions.

I don't understand this. Can anyone relate or am I being tick?

My great grandmother and great grandfather are and Irish immigrants who came to UK and their son in law my grandpa is Irish. How Irish am I?

... Inflatable Disco Club complete with slides. They tested out the sound system with some teeny bopper shite.

I was hoping to spend some time gardening on Saturday.

Hi! As an outsider from a country with pretty great health service I still can't fathom why the Irish are not out on the street protesting about the horrible standards of your health service. A teenager died in agony, people waiting more than 12 hours to be seen. Surely it should make your blood boil. My father in law in Dublin had cancer and received sub standard treatment and waited 14 hours to be seen in A&E several times. Why is there no outcry? I honestly would be very afraid to have anything happening to us in Ireland that would require going to a hospital. Please explain, I don't want to sound arrogant, I just do not get the complacency thx

Hi all. So it finally happened. After almost 20 years of safe driving I finally incurred my first ever penalty points ( 3 of them for speeding , I was guilty 😔). That was a few months back. Now my car is up for insurance renewal. How likely are the insurance company going to try and gouge the price for this year's insurance quote? How much are they likely to add on for these 3 points?

Seriously, I opened the windows to get some air inside and now I have 20 flies in my kitchen.

For some reason they all seems to like to fly around a certain spot in my living room too, even though there is no food or plant there.

Hi,

This is my first time posting on Reddit so apologies if I’m not doing it properly. I’ve been mulling over this for a long time and decided on anon Irish legal forum might be of use to me.

Basically in the summer of 2022 I (23, F) am pretty sure I was repeatedly sexually assaulted. The reason I say pretty sure is that it was with a guy (25, M) I was casually seeing at the time and was in a low and dark place mentally and easily taken advantage of so it took a few months to connect the dots.

I have since met a wonderful guy with his own history of assault and been to 6+ months of therapy where I finally opened up about it. It took a lot to finally come forward with this as I was terrified at the time and held a massive victim complex that I blamed myself for putting myself in that situation. I’ve worked through a lot of my trauma but it has been a long and difficult road. My therapist actually contacted a friend of hers in the Gardaí as the guy himself is a secondary school teacher and she was uncomfortable with someone like that teaching underage teenagers. I’m not going to take responsibility for not reporting him as there were numerous reasons I didn’t come forward at the time. However it has been bothering me as time has gone on. My therapist recommended contacting TUSLA also but everything I’ve seen online says I should contact a Rape helpline. I don’t know how comfortable I am yet discussing this topic on the phone with a stranger.

I suppose I’m looking for legal advice on whether I have any legal standing on this or if it’s useless. I don’t have any hard evidence and I know this topic is very tricky and not black and white understandably. I do believe there would be CCTV footage of one of the incidents as I was nearly unconscious with drink he forced into me and it was public (this is not something I would do consensually). The fact that he’s a teacher may change this situation, honestly I’m not sure and that’s why I’m coming here. If this is an inappropriate topic in this sub then I really do apologise hence why I haven’t given much detail.

Anyways thanks for reading if you have and any and all advice is welcome.

Country bumpkin questions.

I have a leap card. How the frck do I use it on the Luas???

Do I tap getting on and off?

thanks

when they ring... and give out about everything... there's not enough alcohol in the world!..

but the kindness they show cancels out all the vodka.

hi, 15m here and my parents are dead set on making me do TY. i’m in third year and i really don’t want to do it.

i’ve told them that my closest friends aren’t doing it and that a lot of TYs i’ve talked to said it was bad and a waste of time. they still are forcing me to do it and i don’t know what to do.

i’m gonna lose my best friend and i really don’t want to stay for an extra school year with no exams. i want an exam year.

pls help me, thank you! :)

Hi, I’m a 28F recently immigrated to Toronto. I am of African descent but was raised in Ireland and I’m an Irish national/citizen. As I’m new to Canada and Toronto I wanted to meet new people and as St Patrick’s Day is coming up I decided to join some Irish Facebook groups for Irish newcomers to Canada and Toronto.

The group ad stated that the group is only for Irish nationals( which I am). I applied a few weeks ago but was declined entry but thought maybe it was an error then applied again and the same thing occurred. On my third attempt I explained I was born and raised in Ireland. Stated my home town explained I’m an irish citizen and my application was still declined within the hour. I had a look at the admins and they were all approx middle aged white Irish men.

This was not the only group I applied for I applied for two other Irish in Canada/toronto kind of groups. Not been accepted in either. The groups are very active as Facebook does show how many posts are shared a day and how many new members are admitted every week so I’m being blatantly ignored and I think it’s because I’m black not Caucasian. I’ve seen British people

I’m just sharing because it shouldn’t be a big deal however I’m a bit disheartened and disappointed. I just wanted to find other Irish people in toronto to celebrate Paddys day with :(

Seasons 6,7,9,10 & 11. What the hell is that?

My mother in law broke her hip during the week and my whole week was flipped upside down woke with a start at 5 am this morning after remembering I missed the deadline to opt for my bonus to buy shares. Wondering if anyone has had this happen before and how do payroll react. For context I work at a large multinational pharma company