Could anyone enlighten me about why the An Post delivery service never actually delivers anything?

Instead they only stick the collection paper in the letter box? Regardless if you're home or not, they never even knock on the door or give you a ring to collect it from them.

Even my friend waved at them from her balcony as they were coming in through the gate of the apartment complex (ground floor, right next to the gate) and they still didn't deliver

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Waiting for an international delivery, never got a letter on my door for attempting delivery (not like I was expecting it, since my package was just a CD which they usually just slide through the door) at 2 AM?? Then apparently it was sent to the wrong office and they will still try to get it over to me? And now it's being sorted to be sent back to the country of origin.

This has never happened to me before, worst case scenario they would just leave a letter telling me to come pick it up near where I live, but instead they just instantly decide to send it back to the other side of the planet? Make it make sense

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How to cancel Panda Ireland

1. order new bins with new company 5 days before your panda bin collection is due make sure this is at the end of the month or they will try to charge you for another months service charge
2. when new bins arrive EMAIL panda wasters to cancel account expect the runaround but don’t interact with their ridiculous customer service after this
3. they will tell you they want €30 to collect their bins. Tell them to take it out of your “service charge” for the year and you want the rest refunded
4. they will tell you they will collect their bins in 5-10 working days after ten days dispose of bins yourself, as they will leave them outside your property for MONTHS
5. notify everyone you know to NEVER EVER sign up to Panda wasters

Looking for some advice. Are there any half decent careers in water divining out there, and if so what companies use this skill set. To be specific using metal rods for finding water pipes direction of flow, leaks, electrical cables, conduit even dry pipework. Obviously there are no course work one can show as a qualification. However it is something I do and would like to see if there are half decently paid options I could explore. And before anyone asks. I do hit it 100% of the time. Handed down knowledge that has helped me so far in my career but would like to know who else hires people that can do it. Thanks

Cutely named new Thai restaurant in Dublin

I'd like to thank everyone that works in construction across the building sites of Dublin that left returnable bottles & cans thrown around the sites they worked on, Monster Energy(most popular), Red Bull, Various minerals & Water bottles etc etc, you have all paid for my Christmas Shopping & Dinner this year, I've €62 left on the card so you are all going to pay for my Wine, Beer & Whiskey as well

P.S when your finished with your bottles & cans in the new year leave them thrown around the sites for me.

Happy Christmas.

Seems to be constant articles on all the major news sites. Never seen it so bad.

So with only a week or so left in the year, what was your Reddit highlight thread in any of the Ireland or city based subs?

Something you got the best laugh out of, enojoyed reading, or just enjoyed OP making a tit out of themself.

Mine, personally was the unfortunately now deleted thread by an America user who descided to let Connolly book shop in Dublin know that they poster in the window should be taken down over the phrase "from the rivers to the sea", but his mother was from Cavan so it was ok.

What was it for other people? Bonus points if it hasnt been deleted and can linked

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I was born in the UK to British parents who moved to Ireland for six months when i was 10 weeks old - 30 years later they’re still there and have never left. I grew up in a tiny village in the southeast (pub, church, GAA pitch), played camogie, spoke irish, went to the convent school in town when I went to secondary etc. whenever I would go abroad I would introduce myself as Irish (I was, culturally, and had no conscious experience of living in the UK). I moved to Glasgow for uni in 2014 (it was free for Europeans at the time and as my parents had tax status in Ireland I qualified for free tuition).

in 2016 when brexit happened I really felt that I had been stripped of my nationality - before that point there wasn’t a big practical difference between the passports and it cost €1000 to get one through naturalisation so it hadn’t seemed necessary. I still had three years of studying to do and to get a passport through naturalisation you have to have lived in Ireland for 4 of the past 7 years including the year preceding your application, so I would have had to move back to ireland for 4 years after studying with my entire upbringing and the fact that my parents still lived there being moot. I’ve now been in scotland for 10 years and have built a life here - moving back isn’t really an option and so many of my friends have since emigrated anyway. my parents got irish citizenship a couple of years ago but I can’t get it through them.

Obviously a personal bugbear but it’s so frustrating to me to see so many people in the UK get irish passports through a forgotten granny they never met having never even been to ireland - just making this post to see if there is anyone else like me in this situation! Heading “home” for christmas soon but it’s starting to feel like I’m no longer Irish

EDIT: didn’t make this post because i am trying to get an Irish passport - I realised in 2016 that that wouldn’t be a possibility! have since conceded that I’m going to have to be happily scottish from here on out, just find it an interesting anomaly of the nationality/citizenship thing and finding it increasingly untrue to call myself irish despite ireland being “home”

Pros and cons?

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Seems to be an irish actor playing the pilot on Carry-on. Wondering does anyone know anything about him? Imdb says his name is Thomas O'Sullivan, and he plays himself.

Lads, I just watched the Livestream of Newgrange winter solstice. I couldn't believe the Muppets taking their phones out and taking pics when the Sunbeam comes in. Some with the flash on. Talk about ruining it for others, there are thousands of pics online of the Sunbeam coming in, their picture isn't needed. Just enjoy the experience.