I'm really torn on these new speed limits. With the standard of some driving and aggression on our roads, I wonder will the new speed limits make our roads more dangerous. Thoughts?

This may be a no brainer question for most, but I moved from Ireland to North Finland a long time ago and recently discovered spice bags through the Garron dude on IG.

After a trip back home to Wicklow, the missus and I went on the hunt for a real spice bag and we fell in love with it. We now have a large stack of spice bag mix in our home in Lapland so we can have a taste of home whenever the need arises. We also share it with the Finns, but the insane amount of salt seems to put them off.

So, is it Irish? It was not a thing when I lived there.

Now that Canada and Mexico is done, I guess it's only a matter of days before he announces new tariffs agaist EU. Or would his tech bros stop him because of.. their tax operations in Ireland?

If he goes ahead and slaps 25% on EU as well... Just.how fucked are we?

Hey folks, just looking for the group opinion on what's "normal" for cleaning an apartment before moving out.

One of my friends is moving out of a rented apartment in the near future and the landlord has said that they have to wash the walls before leaving. As far as I know the walls are not dirty beyond normal lived in levels. Is this a normal request or Is this landlord taking the piss a bit?

I've never been asked to do it whenever I have moved out of somewhere so I just thought it a bit odd.

Ireland is with you Paul Hughes!

I’m meeting my auntie for lunch on Wednesday in Athlone. Any nice places to go? It’s a small birthday treat. We meet halfway between Dublin and Galway occasionally and last couple of times we met, it wasn’t great food.

I promise I’ve googled this already but couldn’t find an answer. I live in a ground floor apartment. I have an ashtray on said balcony. Numerous times I’ve come out to find the ashtray gone or sometimes even just the contents of it. I bought a ring camera and it has caught the person climbing over the balcony and emptying the ashtray into their pockets.

To be clear, I do not care that the cigarette butts are being stolen. But it makes me feel really uneasy and unsafe knowing while I’m asleep there is someone on my balcony.

All that said, is this trespassing? Could I take this further, given I now have evidence?

Well the best time to do that was before anything crazy happened, but the second best time to do it is now.”

So lads, between Storm Eowyn’s aftermath and seeing disaster prep kits from the Americas, (specifically Canadian Red Cross’s 72 hour kit. A bit much IMO) I’m interested in getting together all the stuff I should have done before the storm hit. A kit stored in the car, brought in if the need arises.

What goes in your disaster kit?

-Power (charge banks, radio, torches, lanterns)

-printouts of stuff that’s usually on the phone (or reminders), Car atlas

-food (on other kits but I’m inside in a town, easy enough to pick up something so no need to stockpile until there’s indications)

Anything else?

Edit: just back from r/preppers. Jaysis lads, that’s a deep rabbit hole to go down, but I won’t be filling concrete & converting it into a bunker just yet…