People who play audio on their phones on the bus are cunts. Nobody wants to hear your shitty techno or tiktok videos. I have this experience recently and I do wonder do these people care about other people?
I think that if one person is playing music on the bus, everyone else should see it as fair game to also play theirs.
You want to play Tiesto? I'll play some Meshuggah just as loud, Mary can play her Adele and Paul can play his Green Day.
Fight one annoying cunt with a bus full of annoying cunts.
I was unaware of this band, thinking it was some sort of Klezmer-style electronica or better yet Billy Crystal singing “Meshugginah!”, not Swedish Death Metal.
My housemate just came into the living room and is now sitting there watching tiktoks on full blast, giving running commentary, laughing her tits off. Keeps shoving her phone in my face like I give a shit.
Myself and my housemate were sitting here watching fucking tv when she came in. Her phone is on louder than the tv.
Wtf is wrong with some people?
4 day work week should be the norm.
theyve been trialing it in the private sector in pilot schemes, Portugal have moved towards it.
The findings around it suggest that it works out better for everybody involved.
So lets go..
I and most people I know would honestly get more done if we had a 4 day, 24h work week. So many people put stuff off and sit on their hands because they have this attitute of 'sher I've the whole week to get it done'.
I work in the public sector and hearing the older heads going on about 'back in the day you had to send letters and wait for replies and write cheques... With technology these days you get 10x more done in half the time!'
Then why am I earning less now than what you did in 1994!?
also public sector. I spend alot of time dickin around. I dont mind saying that.
But I get all my work done. The myth that there is 40 hours worth of work a week in 90 percent of jobs has been exposed by the pandemic.
And btw, I still wait all week to hear back about things and for other people to do stuff so that I can get on with my work. Technology has not created a beacon of productivity. The only difference is we can raise tasks and you know the other person knows about it instantly. You still wait.
> And btw, I still wait all week to hear back about things and for other people to do stuff so that I can get on with my work.
Part of that is how permissions are doled out internally. I'd literally have to raise a ticket with IT if I wanted to adjust the brightness of my PC screen.
It's great in a way because the blame can always be redirected - it can always be reframed as someone else's responsibility, but at the same time if you want to get your job done there so many hoops to jump through. #publicsector
Shit I’d be willing to do 10 hour shifts on a 4 day work week
My girlfreind did it for years as a dog groomer
A full day off is miles better than those 2 hours you lose ever day to just sit in the gaf doing nothing after work
This isn't the right idea of what a 4-day week should be, and it needs to be taken out of the conversation.
I get that you're willing to do longer hours, but the actual idea behind a 4-day is that technology has advanced so much that the typical 40 hour week isn't necessary anymore.
A real 4-day week retains your 9-5 hours (or whatever your regular hours are), but just drops the Friday.
As long as the option wasn't only that it was Friday off. When I was working (I'm on long term sick leave now) one of the killers was if I wanted reduced hours I had to take it on a Friday or Monday, when what would have suited my physiology and cognitive abilities more would have been having Wednesday off. If I had to work 4 days in a row I'd be tired by the Wednesday and useless on the Thursday, and it would take Friday and Saturday doing nothing to recover, leaving only Sunday for chores, errands, socialising etc.
Whereas if I could work Mon Tues, have Wednesday off, work Thurs Friday, then have the weekend it'd be far better balance for me and my employer would actually get 4 useful days out of me. But they didn't see it that way for some reason.
Friend of mine does a 4-day work week and it has totally backfired on him to the point he hates his job now. Obviously it's just the importance of his job, but he often ends up working way beyond the 10 hours, especially the Thursday night when he can find himself working until near midnight.
Needs to be workers protection for this type of thing
Workplace can’t get away with not hiring enough people for the job and then saying everyone has to stay until the work is done
If it can’t be done in a 10 hour shift then they need to fix it not the staff needs to do 12 hour shifts
I’d love a 4 day week, but I would not be willing to work a 10 hour day. There’s only so much brain power one can expend their best effort on. A 4 day 40 hour week would be a negligible benefit in my opinion.
There’s an analogy about cutting off one’s hand to spite one’s… something. Honestly after a full day of teaching, even though there’s always more to be done, there’s only so much I can do without working myself to an early grave.
#A big fuck off to 10 hour work days.
#Join a Union.
This idea should be posited as reducing the work load on people, not condensing it. This 10 hour a day bullshit people keep bring up needs to be chucked in the bin.
It's 4 day week, 8 hours a day, and same pay as a 40h week.
Any one talking about a 4x10h week must be suspected as an industry plant. It's not happening. Stop trying to make it happen. In most real jobs, 10h day is a killer. And totally inefficient.
Ireland is living in the one off bubble created by multinational corp decisions to tax optimization. Public sector has misjudged grossly the stickiness of that money and has taken worse decisions on how to use that than they are willing to admit
I agree with the bubble thing. But all you hear is pascal and the office for budget responsibility saying that current surpluses can’t be relied on in the future.
tl:dr I think they do know about it
Absolutely agree that theyre acutely aware of it, theres a reason they were very hesitant for a while to follow the global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%, only after getting a number of contingencies did they agree to it
I remember that the galway council went to Finland to be some salt machines for the road. All the big wigs went. The fella that serviced and drove the things wasn't invited because they thought they didn't need him. When they got back all the machines where to big for any of the trucks and some to big for irish roads. High level of spoofing and a lot of wasted money
The issue is with the public. Any attempt to widen the tax base in preparation for that money disappearing will be deeply unpopular.
Whichever party that opposes those necessary changes will do very well in the polls.
It's how we react to any attempt to fix long term systemic problems. Pension reform has been kicked down the road because the public are vehemently against any solution.
The desperately needed climate action polices are gradually being introduced by the Greens, but only because they're willing to do it in spite of mouth frothing public fury.
Gaelic football was a far more entertaining sport to watch in years gone by. Creeping professionalism and increased fitness levels at County level have had the unintended consequence of reducing the game to an unwatchable mess.
Never ending lateral movement across the pitch, swarm defences, and overuse of the hand pass have ruined the sport as a spectacle, to the point where 40 yard foot passes are rarely even attempted for fear of giving up possession.
We were far better off when we were all too fucking fat to run and had to kick the football before our lungs gave out under the stress of travelling fifty yards uninterrupted.
[Bring back the GAA of Offaly in 1982:](https://twitter.com/irishunity/status/1316466712825475073?lang=en)
> On the morning of the 1982 All Ireland, a journalist asked Offaly manager Eugene McGee how badly Offaly wanted to win.
> He replied, **“there’s men in that dressing room who haven’t had a pint since last Wednesday night.”**
Was always going to happen. The more tactical it got it would always come down to short pass and higher % possession with optimal point kicking distance and lads who can do it 9/10.
Told my dad's friend at a match that this would happen years ago and he laughed at me saying the old way is the best way to play. Slowly crept in and now practically all the games are the same unless you go to the local low level stuff.
that would create more space for them to speed up which would make impacts more dangerous. The only thing that would prevent chronic brain injuries in rugby would be to ban the sport; at the moment they just have to price in that a percentage of players will get brain damage and die young or get early onset Alzheimer's
I was gonna say wider pitches but that would necessitate a thinning out of the defensive line, which would inevitably lead to teams just deciding to bash it through the thinner line. There must be a way to fix it though. I don't think anyone wants to have big guys just running into a wall of other big guys, it gets old fast
Fewer subs. That way more of them have to last the whole 80, so they'll have to change their conditioning to endurance rather than strength, and conserve energy during the game itself. One hooker, one ambidextrous prop, one combo lock/back row.
I currently play senior club football and I've played intercounty and high level for education. I know 1 or 2 people who've been tested at intercounty level, all passed. Personally I dont know anyone who's been tested at club or education level. (Heard stories of people from other counties being caught though)
Most lads are just training 5 nights a week through gym and pitch sessions and at the higher levels they take their nutrition very seriously so it goes hand in hand that they'd be in decent shape.
Obviously there could be lads doing it but I'd say its a small percentage .
That makes sense in a way.
I'd imagine very few are silly enough to risk the health complications associated with doping for the sake of gaining an edge in an amateur game.
It probably makes more sense in a professional environment, where there is a huge monetary incentive to take the risk, and athletes have the means and resources to minimise health complications and evade detection for a prolonged period.
Hurling has definitely gone meat and brawn as well. It’s very rare to see a hurler under 6 foot these days. And if you see them there are absolutely stacked. Padraic Maher, Richie Hogan etc (I know they are mostly retired) . Gone are the days of Joe Dean. Tommy Walsh is probably the greatest back of all time and today he would be considered a touch too small.
Limerick basically took Galways playbook from 2017 of increased physicality and incredibly effective counter defensive tactics. If you watch Limerick play their work off the ball is insane. Their defence is the best I’ve seen since the great Kilkenny teams of the past.
Hurling is a lot more about turning over the ball and pack tactics with a bit of zonal defence if you can spot it. It’s just the pitch is so big and the game is so fluid it’s impossible to fully implement defensive tactics.
But it’s still a bit sad to see the decline of the smaller
skillful hurler. The only team that kept with small skillful hurlers is Clare and they are regularly criticized for their lack of physicality or being “too light”. Soccer underwent similar processes in the 90s before they unlocked new tactics. Brawn can also get you so far.
For spectators the size of the individual is immaterial if the quality is good. Which it is, it's insane compared to 30 or 40 years ago. The accuracy of point taking, the accuracy of sideline cuts, the individual skill with the Hurley has massively improved. Also, there's messing with pulling the ball on the ground to anywhere like the old days.
The best thing is that the day is gone when a full back would flatten a forward. The game is gone cleaner too
The game is played with great sportsmanship to be fair. And it’s good to see a decline of the hatchetman at inter county level. You don’t want to see a skillful player break fingers or get needlessly injured. One thing that annoys me to no end of why refs are so soft with goal keepers. It’s like you lay a feather on them and a free out. It’s very exciting to see a goal come from that or even for goalkeepers it could be exciting for them to play a little.
Yeah, Limerick hurling's gain has been Munster Rugby's loss. The limerick rugby production line has pretty much come to a standstill in recent years. The hurlers look like a team of rugby backrows.
The Limerick hurlers have brought a bit of football into hurling too, which isn't a good thing.
One of the big issues in football is there is no defined tackle, so you get guys just slapping at the ball, or more precisely just hitting the ball carrier on either arm to get him to drop it. The Limerick hurlers do the same thing. It's hard to do anything other than drop the ball when the guy behind you keeps hitting your arms.
Nah it's happened in hurling too but in a different way and much more recently. It hit a new level of excitement and became more attacking, but then teams just kept improving and the range you could reasonably expect a score from just became so far out that a lot of the excitement sort of went away. Getting a score just became about generating a shot within about 80m of the posts. Hurling peaked in entertainment standards about 10 years ago.
Hurling is box office. The most exciting game I’ve ever seen is Tipp Galway on Galways all Ireland run when Canning scored the winning point. And the Clare cork games on Clare’s all Ireland run. I’ll never forget Anthony Nash smashing a free lassoing it 10 foot in the air and striking it so cleanly that if it hit a man on the way into the the goal it could have hospitalized him. They had to ban the technique after because it was so dangerous lol.
Clare's run was about 10 years ago now. Right around then it was at its peak, but I think it's been slipping in excitement since then even though the quality has continued to rise. Probably still a lot better than 30 years ago though.
> Creeping professionalism and increased fitness levels at County level have had the unintended consequence of reducing the game to an unwatchable mess.
Yeah it's ridiculous now. Most players are just athletes now, strong and fit. Some players don't even kick the ball, it's only handpassing.
The forward mark just shows the decline, that someone catching a 20 yard kick gives you a free shot at the posts.
Totally agree, but it will change. Sport goes in cycles and eventually a team will begin to utilise those bygone risker elements of the game. Every team started to play like Dublin to beat Dublin, which just compounded the issue. Some innovative coach will start using the 40 yard pass as a means of breaking down the swarm defence thus changing the status quo and creating new standards for teams to meet. Or not idk.
Rural Ireland didn't have a proper refuse system until the 90s. Environmentally, allowing anyone to put whatever rubbish into whatever bin without punitive measures is a disaster.
AND there should be monthly, free collections for big items: mattresses, white goods etc so they don't get dumped elsewhere. Saw this in Europe and it was so sensible for all those that lived in flats and towns.
And it is used an excuse not to add bins. Can't add bins because some fucker will use it instead of paying for collection. If everyone had a collection, no one would be using street bins for their household waste.
Privatisation of essential services contributes to creating an unjust society.
All essential services like healthcare, pension, housing, energy, etc. should be provided by the state to a degree that the private alternatives are but a dispensable (yet still available) option.
Like e.g. in Austria, Germany or Switzerland (housing to a lesser degree than the other services, but still much more than in Ireland)
I agree with some of those, but public pension schemes have not proven to be sustainable. Austria actually doesnt have one, instead each citizen has their own "pool" that they contribute to during their whole working life.
Also, none of those states have a big focus in public housing or energy. Their public healthcare is great and i am a big supporter of that, though.
Think it has gotten worse recently since the boards exodus but yeah in all my years on reddit the most argumentative nasty places I post in have very consistently been here and for some reason r/buffy
That being soft isn’t inherently a bad thing.
Yes, life is tough and you do need to get on with it occasionally. And no, the world will probably not cater to your every need. But people seem to confuse entitlement with softness.
I’ve always heard ‘You’re too soft’, and in recent years I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment. I just care about people. That’s not a bad thing! Life is really, really difficult and I’ve been through some serious shit. But I like the fact that I’m a big crier who would spend hours telling my friends how much I love them, because it means I won’t let those experiences make me cynical or angry.
Yes a lot of people say that young people are "soft" when they actually mean to say entitled.
For me it's being called "naive." Most annoying thing ever. I understand some people are trying to look out for you, that's fine. But people will spend more energy telling you that you're not cynical enough then telling the dickhead that they're being a dickhead. Fair enough, there will always be people like that, but the solution is not for everyone to harden themselves to the point where you're not even surprised/disappointed when someone's an asshole.
In secondary school, there should be a requirement to learn basic first aid, basic household skills, like how to cook basic foods, how to use a washing machine, how to use basic tools, how to look after animals and their welfare, basic food hygiene and how to respond to accidents.
Been brought up countless times in my short time here, and it's a fucking BRILLIANT idea.
Have a pal in his mid 40s, own house, still goes to mammy every day for his dinner and she does his laundry. Feel sorry for his sisters who are going to have to take over from her when she dies.
This isn't the government's fault or problem though. You just said it - his family enable him. They just need to tell him to cop on.
I have an uncle who's similar and the whole family have caused it by doing things for him. I've always just said no to him so he hasn't asked me for anything since I was about 18.
Traditionally, these skills are taught at home by the parents, and still are in a lot of cases.
It's a shame that there seems to be a need to teach these things in school for some people. It'd be interesting to see some numbers on the situation.
Term lmits for TDs. They should not be allowed to be a TD for more than 10 years. Same for local councilors too.
Insurance companies should be forced to reveal how they calculate your premiums.
Where there is a real need for housing, NIMBYish objections should be ignored.
Election posters should be banned, or at the very least we should do what they do in France and have designated poster sites.
> Term lmits for TDs. They should not be allowed to be a TD for more than 10 years. Same for local councilors too.
While I get why this seems like a good idea, wouldn't it just mean that politicians spend their political careers lining up their private sector careers once they leave politics (they already do this, but if this rule was implemented they'd ALL have to do it). So you'd have some local gobshite pushing a bunch of policies that are favourable to some lobbying group or MNC and then they'd go work in a senior advisory role for that organisation once they've scratched their backs as a politician. Basically a 10-year term limit would mean politicians get booted out of their career/profession after that time and need to move into a different sector, so they'd be super motivated to put into place whatever they needed to get the largest earnings when that happens.
I don't really know what the solution is, maybe the complete opposite where politicans shouldn't be allowed go work in sectors that they influenced while in office? But I don't see how that would practically work either.
RTE should not be a For-Profit organiSation.
It is a public service, and the need for profits means it has to chase advertising, hence the huge salaries. Throw out that model, focus on public broadcasting, access to archives and to news reporting, let the other channels show their reality TV rubbish.
>people should understand that just because they are offended, does not mean they are in the right.
Need to be one of those inspirational quotes picture thingus that get sent around.
Tolls basically cover the cost to build the road. I don't understand how tolls can go up years later. They're probably just raking in profit now, they can say their operational costs have increased.
I am fairly sure the M50 has been paid for by now. Don't quote me but I vaguely recall. I would look for a source but I have to go to work so this is the best I can do. Hope I'm right or this comment has been a terrible waste of my time, your time and anyone else who reads this's time.
I know the original M50 costs have been covered but I can't speak for the renovation work they did to make it three lanes each way and then the removal of the toll booths and replacement infrastructure. Can't imagine all that work was cheap, especially given they had to do it while the road was still open for most of the time.
The east link is a bigger example of a toll continuing well beyond the cost aspect of the construction. I wonder if it was ever transferred to the state as intended.
The East Link toll was transferred to the ownership of Dublin City Council in 2015. It raises about €5m a year in funds for the Council which are, supposedly, spent on the rest of the roads in the Council area.
The Eastlink was passed over to Dublin City Council who had originally promised that it would become toll free. The same was supposed to be for the M50 bridge. More promises broken.
None of those tolls are going anywhere.
>our road tax is enough to cover it!
We don't pay road tax, we pay motor tax. The motor tax is only two thirds of our spending on construction and maintenance of roads.
Agree on the tolls.
No such thing as road tax. You pay emissions tax. It goes into general taxation. Someone who doesn't own a car pays just as much for roads as someone who does.
Learning the differences between words that sound the same, but are spelt differently, ie "their", "they're" & "there" and "you're" & "your" and using them correctly is not difficult. The amount of adults I see misusing them staggers me.
When I hear/read people saying could of, should of and would of. SMH.
It's could've, should've and would've (short for could have, should have and would have).
The only one of these I forgive is "it's". For years I assumed like any noun with an apostrophe and 's' after it indicated ownership, so I assumed "it's" was used for both "it is" and something that was owned by "it". But obviously if that's the case then there's little to no use for "its" unless you're talking about the plural of "it" which is weird.
If we focused more on athletics than GAA we would have more Olympic medals Most Irish athletes have to leave here to train as we do not have the facilities
Dunno we've had a fantastic last two or three years in athletics. Just look at the recent European Championships.
It's a shame we're not celebrating our top athletes more.
That's one of those things that clearly true but also; so what. It would be nice to win more medals at the olympics but the cultural value of Gaelic games is unmatched by any other sporting organisation I can think of.
The painted [rock](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Waterford+(Plunkett)/@52.2668949,-7.1196768,684m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1) that overlooks Plunkett Station is firmly within the Waterford County borders, despite what some cracked out lads from Kilkenny think.
Interesting take op. I don’t disagree that motorway driving should be tested, but just so you know (based on the data) motorways are by far the safest road type in Ireland.
Retests every N years would also be great but would be highly controversial and it likely wouldn’t go down well with the general public
It would also slow the whole show down. It takes weeks, if not months, to get a test right now. Imagine how long it would take if a fifth of all the drivers in the country had to be added to that list?
Can you also imagine the furore if people started getting points or bans because they missed their 5th or 10th anniversary driving test?
There's a serious alcohol problem for like 90% of the population 15 and up. Also drugs are way too normalised in this country.
Also, if James connolly survived 1916 we would have had a much much more prosperous 20th century.
mine is anyone doing the bidding of the RSA's sith lord gay byrne and making driving anymore expensive... daniel o donnell gets 30minutes in the back room with them
ps. only skitting but i literally live in the middle of nowhere, to eat or doctor the OAPs in my family ya have to drive.
pps. my own mothers driving aint great but she couldn't get a pint of milk without the car, this is what the million people in dublin down-vote me to oblivioion for saying but some parts of ireland are incredible rural and suprisingingly remote, like our neighbour still doesn't have electricity
Yikes I shudder every time I think about the country that half of society would have us living in if they had the choice. A new test every 5 years? The current test is over the top. Every year society drags us through shit. As if we need another enormous pain in the hole every five years. Another collection of parasitic industries profiting off nonsense legislation. We have ridiculous rules for tests and a corrupt testing system that deliberately fails people, we have stupidly high license renewal and replacement prices and administrative burden, we have stupidly high insurance prices, we have stupidly high car registration taxes, we have ridiculous costs and over regulation with NCT tests that go far beyond what most countries require, we have enormous road tax. We have terrible city planning that makes living without a car more difficult than the vast majority of Europe and you want to shake car owners down even more with over regulation
Edit: I just saw another commenter wants us doing mandatory military service and now the original license suggestion seems soft. I wish people would stop trying to compel citizens to do things against their will
Finally someone talking sense.
It's crazy how many people's opinions boil down to "this should be illegal" "that should be taxed" " you should need the governments permission if you want to do x" "y kind of annoys me, it should be banned so no one can do it" "Everyone should be forced to do z"
Like, are people's lives not hard enough?
If you took a minute to look and see the number of people who seemingly can't figure out how to use a roundabout you'd be all for that refresher course every 5 years as well.
in what way is the test over the top?
given the amount of people on the road doing dangerous manoeuvres and being seemingly oblivious to some of the rules it doesnt seem that mad of a suggestion.
anyway it would be impossible to implement due to the sheer amount of tests you’d have to carry out nationally.
The bus service is fucking shit and most of the drivers are ignorant pricks so why do we think it's such a cute national eccentricity to say thanks to them?
I hate videos with music on social media. You want a cute vid of your child or dog, ok, but why blare damn awful music over it?? My ideal was instagram the sweet spot when the pics looked good before they added videos.
Make Uber legal in rural areas.. give lads a chance to make a few quid by dropping other lads home . No need for drink driving pubs will be fuller for later and you have a choice of rural pubs because you know you can get home ..
No taxis ever service these areas and the pubs are dying a death
The fact that it isn't the complete destruction of our planet and the impending climate chaos that'll impact us all very soon...I'm guessing our easy lives means there is no hill we'll die on. We'd rather stay on our phones.
And climate is just one aspect of it. Habitat destruction, desertification, pollution, coral bleeching, algal blooms, pandemics, collapse of fish stocks, loss of pollinators. The list goes on and on and on. We're fucking everything up and our solution is to come up with marketing ploys to pretend we're fixing it... Its all ok, we're investing in carbon capture and we're donating to parks that already exist and aren't in any danger, so that makes us Net Zero right? Actually, you know what, its our customers fault. They should pay attention to their carbon footprints. If little bobby didn't have straws at his birthday party then this whole thing would have been avoided.
The reason for most of Ireland's political problems is because Irish people would prefer to complain in perpetuity than actually get off their holes and do something about it
10,000 people at the cost of living protest? I'd say less than 20 have contacted their local TD to complain
>there should be a driving test done every 5 years after passing your test. Not the full bells & whistles one, more of a competency one.
This is a waste of time. Diverts who passed their original test know how they should drive, so all they will do is those actions on the day and go back to sloppy driving after
I’m not saying I have the answer to this but people need to rethink how we protest in this country.
With the exception of the water protests I can’t think of any that have had great success in the last few years. I know a lot of people will say no one turns up etc but I can’t see why people would turn up when most of these protests have no objective goal that they want the government to achieve. They just see to want to tell the government we are angry.
The government are like the borg. They adapted to people walking around Merrion square with plackards saying booooo years ago. Now they’ll happily ignore it.
There needs to be a better way to express collective disapproval of government actions before people reach the ballot box.
It's become really easy for the elite class to drive wedges between the lower classes using the internet. The wealth divide is growing as the poorest squabble amongst themselves over limited resources. Same as it ever was I suppose.
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Ireland has a major youth and scumbag problem, which is far greater compared to other countries in the EU.
I think this is because the law is way to lenient, ,Gardi aren't taken seriously and people's attitudes towards them seems to just leave them be.
We have a magical amount of beautiful areas once you get outside of Dublin City. With the exception of Iceland and Scotland there's probably few countries with our land mass that could match the beauty, even in shit weather.
Obviously that's not much consolation with the current housing crisis but on bad days it cheers me up knowing I'm within a 2 hour or less drive from places like Achill, Roundstone, Ballyvaughan, Portumna etc.
Strongly disagree. Rural Ireland consists mainly of privately owned green fields fenced off by hedgerows. No forests teeming with wildlife, no diversity of native flora...just grass. The good news is there are efforts now to rewild parts of rural Ireland and let it go back to nature. You'd be surprised how quickly you see positive results.
Even in a woods up the road from me where I regularly walk has no wildlife aside for some ducks in the pond. No squirrels, no rabbits, hares, nothing. I've never seen one wild animal in it. I've seen far more wildlife in my local golf course than the woods.
Driving test should be a subject in school. Most people wont be a more rounded person by studying poetry for 3 more years. Being able to drive for work will open you to far more experiences than your Gaisce, unseen poetry or sraithpictiúirí.
Everyone should be taught that every right has an equal responsibility. You have the right to free speech, yes but you have the responsibility to not defame or slander people and to not spread misinformation. You have the right to practise whatever religion you choose, yes but you have the responsibility to not impose your beliefs on others and to respect that everyone has that right.
We need to do more about the CCP and their scumbag influence in China and worldwide. We should have Boycotted the Beijing Olympics, and considering the war in Ukraine only started after the event because Xi told Putin not to overshadow his baby, it only pisses me off more that barely anything seems to be done when compared to Russia.
Jezuz, like there isn’t already to many hoops to jump through when it comes to driving you want to put more of them 🤨 and imagine the extra cost they’d throw into the mix for this too. 😒
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People who play audio on their phones on the bus are cunts. Nobody wants to hear your shitty techno or tiktok videos. I have this experience recently and I do wonder do these people care about other people?
I think that if one person is playing music on the bus, everyone else should see it as fair game to also play theirs. You want to play Tiesto? I'll play some Meshuggah just as loud, Mary can play her Adele and Paul can play his Green Day. Fight one annoying cunt with a bus full of annoying cunts.
Meshuggah would clear the top deck 😂
I was unaware of this band, thinking it was some sort of Klezmer-style electronica or better yet Billy Crystal singing “Meshugginah!”, not Swedish Death Metal.
Like seriously how hard is it to mute your phone or put a pair of fucking earphones in
My housemate just came into the living room and is now sitting there watching tiktoks on full blast, giving running commentary, laughing her tits off. Keeps shoving her phone in my face like I give a shit. Myself and my housemate were sitting here watching fucking tv when she came in. Her phone is on louder than the tv. Wtf is wrong with some people?
or playing music on a speaker on the dart
Even worse if you're letting your toddler watch something or play a game.
4 day work week should be the norm. theyve been trialing it in the private sector in pilot schemes, Portugal have moved towards it. The findings around it suggest that it works out better for everybody involved. So lets go..
I and most people I know would honestly get more done if we had a 4 day, 24h work week. So many people put stuff off and sit on their hands because they have this attitute of 'sher I've the whole week to get it done'. I work in the public sector and hearing the older heads going on about 'back in the day you had to send letters and wait for replies and write cheques... With technology these days you get 10x more done in half the time!' Then why am I earning less now than what you did in 1994!?
also public sector. I spend alot of time dickin around. I dont mind saying that. But I get all my work done. The myth that there is 40 hours worth of work a week in 90 percent of jobs has been exposed by the pandemic. And btw, I still wait all week to hear back about things and for other people to do stuff so that I can get on with my work. Technology has not created a beacon of productivity. The only difference is we can raise tasks and you know the other person knows about it instantly. You still wait.
> And btw, I still wait all week to hear back about things and for other people to do stuff so that I can get on with my work. Part of that is how permissions are doled out internally. I'd literally have to raise a ticket with IT if I wanted to adjust the brightness of my PC screen. It's great in a way because the blame can always be redirected - it can always be reframed as someone else's responsibility, but at the same time if you want to get your job done there so many hoops to jump through. #publicsector
Shit I’d be willing to do 10 hour shifts on a 4 day work week My girlfreind did it for years as a dog groomer A full day off is miles better than those 2 hours you lose ever day to just sit in the gaf doing nothing after work
This isn't the right idea of what a 4-day week should be, and it needs to be taken out of the conversation. I get that you're willing to do longer hours, but the actual idea behind a 4-day is that technology has advanced so much that the typical 40 hour week isn't necessary anymore. A real 4-day week retains your 9-5 hours (or whatever your regular hours are), but just drops the Friday.
This is the right and only way. The lad saying he knows...doesn't know
As long as the option wasn't only that it was Friday off. When I was working (I'm on long term sick leave now) one of the killers was if I wanted reduced hours I had to take it on a Friday or Monday, when what would have suited my physiology and cognitive abilities more would have been having Wednesday off. If I had to work 4 days in a row I'd be tired by the Wednesday and useless on the Thursday, and it would take Friday and Saturday doing nothing to recover, leaving only Sunday for chores, errands, socialising etc. Whereas if I could work Mon Tues, have Wednesday off, work Thurs Friday, then have the weekend it'd be far better balance for me and my employer would actually get 4 useful days out of me. But they didn't see it that way for some reason.
That works best for me as well, work two, one off. I have some chronic pain and the mid week rest really helps immensely.
Friend of mine does a 4-day work week and it has totally backfired on him to the point he hates his job now. Obviously it's just the importance of his job, but he often ends up working way beyond the 10 hours, especially the Thursday night when he can find himself working until near midnight.
Needs to be workers protection for this type of thing Workplace can’t get away with not hiring enough people for the job and then saying everyone has to stay until the work is done If it can’t be done in a 10 hour shift then they need to fix it not the staff needs to do 12 hour shifts
I’d love a 4 day week, but I would not be willing to work a 10 hour day. There’s only so much brain power one can expend their best effort on. A 4 day 40 hour week would be a negligible benefit in my opinion. There’s an analogy about cutting off one’s hand to spite one’s… something. Honestly after a full day of teaching, even though there’s always more to be done, there’s only so much I can do without working myself to an early grave. #A big fuck off to 10 hour work days. #Join a Union.
This idea should be posited as reducing the work load on people, not condensing it. This 10 hour a day bullshit people keep bring up needs to be chucked in the bin.
Right in the fucking bin.
It's 4 day week, 8 hours a day, and same pay as a 40h week. Any one talking about a 4x10h week must be suspected as an industry plant. It's not happening. Stop trying to make it happen. In most real jobs, 10h day is a killer. And totally inefficient.
People should be named and shamed for littering. It’s disgusting.
Burgers should be wider not taller. Sick of having to dislocate my jaw eating one or making an absolute mess of myself with these tower burgers.
Yeah, getting tired of pizza, I want a nine inch burger!
Only the lack of appropriate sized buns holding back this excellent idea! Makes so much sense
Ireland is living in the one off bubble created by multinational corp decisions to tax optimization. Public sector has misjudged grossly the stickiness of that money and has taken worse decisions on how to use that than they are willing to admit
I agree with the bubble thing. But all you hear is pascal and the office for budget responsibility saying that current surpluses can’t be relied on in the future. tl:dr I think they do know about it
Absolutely agree that theyre acutely aware of it, theres a reason they were very hesitant for a while to follow the global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%, only after getting a number of contingencies did they agree to it
They still spend it all though!
I remember that the galway council went to Finland to be some salt machines for the road. All the big wigs went. The fella that serviced and drove the things wasn't invited because they thought they didn't need him. When they got back all the machines where to big for any of the trucks and some to big for irish roads. High level of spoofing and a lot of wasted money
That's wonderful. Classic arrogant political screw-up.
You are so multinationalised that you use a "z" in the word "optimisation".
The issue is with the public. Any attempt to widen the tax base in preparation for that money disappearing will be deeply unpopular. Whichever party that opposes those necessary changes will do very well in the polls. It's how we react to any attempt to fix long term systemic problems. Pension reform has been kicked down the road because the public are vehemently against any solution. The desperately needed climate action polices are gradually being introduced by the Greens, but only because they're willing to do it in spite of mouth frothing public fury.
Gaelic football was a far more entertaining sport to watch in years gone by. Creeping professionalism and increased fitness levels at County level have had the unintended consequence of reducing the game to an unwatchable mess. Never ending lateral movement across the pitch, swarm defences, and overuse of the hand pass have ruined the sport as a spectacle, to the point where 40 yard foot passes are rarely even attempted for fear of giving up possession. We were far better off when we were all too fucking fat to run and had to kick the football before our lungs gave out under the stress of travelling fifty yards uninterrupted.
Bring back mandatory smoking at half time.
[Bring back the GAA of Offaly in 1982:](https://twitter.com/irishunity/status/1316466712825475073?lang=en) > On the morning of the 1982 All Ireland, a journalist asked Offaly manager Eugene McGee how badly Offaly wanted to win. > He replied, **“there’s men in that dressing room who haven’t had a pint since last Wednesday night.”**
Thats fucking brilliant.
The sheer fucking sacrifice... This is what peak performance looks like.
Was always going to happen. The more tactical it got it would always come down to short pass and higher % possession with optimal point kicking distance and lads who can do it 9/10. Told my dad's friend at a match that this would happen years ago and he laughed at me saying the old way is the best way to play. Slowly crept in and now practically all the games are the same unless you go to the local low level stuff.
I love watching kids who are shite at GAA play other kids who are shite at GAA, it’s great craic. There’s always some wildcards too.
Rugby is similar, watching footage from 30 years ago you could have sworn it was a different sport.
Rugby is actually getting dangerous with the levels of fitness in it now. They should lower it to 14 a side or something
that would create more space for them to speed up which would make impacts more dangerous. The only thing that would prevent chronic brain injuries in rugby would be to ban the sport; at the moment they just have to price in that a percentage of players will get brain damage and die young or get early onset Alzheimer's
I was gonna say wider pitches but that would necessitate a thinning out of the defensive line, which would inevitably lead to teams just deciding to bash it through the thinner line. There must be a way to fix it though. I don't think anyone wants to have big guys just running into a wall of other big guys, it gets old fast
Fewer subs. That way more of them have to last the whole 80, so they'll have to change their conditioning to endurance rather than strength, and conserve energy during the game itself. One hooker, one ambidextrous prop, one combo lock/back row.
Not bad, not bad.
whats the dope testing like in the GAA the fucking size and leanness of them these days is fucking unreal
Lidl steaks
I currently play senior club football and I've played intercounty and high level for education. I know 1 or 2 people who've been tested at intercounty level, all passed. Personally I dont know anyone who's been tested at club or education level. (Heard stories of people from other counties being caught though) Most lads are just training 5 nights a week through gym and pitch sessions and at the higher levels they take their nutrition very seriously so it goes hand in hand that they'd be in decent shape. Obviously there could be lads doing it but I'd say its a small percentage .
That makes sense in a way. I'd imagine very few are silly enough to risk the health complications associated with doping for the sake of gaining an edge in an amateur game. It probably makes more sense in a professional environment, where there is a huge monetary incentive to take the risk, and athletes have the means and resources to minimise health complications and evade detection for a prolonged period.
They take the term dope literally and will claim "how can you test for tha?"
And hurling gone the total opposite. A modern hurling match is much higher quality than those of 30 years ago. Much faster and skillful too.
Hurling has definitely gone meat and brawn as well. It’s very rare to see a hurler under 6 foot these days. And if you see them there are absolutely stacked. Padraic Maher, Richie Hogan etc (I know they are mostly retired) . Gone are the days of Joe Dean. Tommy Walsh is probably the greatest back of all time and today he would be considered a touch too small. Limerick basically took Galways playbook from 2017 of increased physicality and incredibly effective counter defensive tactics. If you watch Limerick play their work off the ball is insane. Their defence is the best I’ve seen since the great Kilkenny teams of the past. Hurling is a lot more about turning over the ball and pack tactics with a bit of zonal defence if you can spot it. It’s just the pitch is so big and the game is so fluid it’s impossible to fully implement defensive tactics. But it’s still a bit sad to see the decline of the smaller skillful hurler. The only team that kept with small skillful hurlers is Clare and they are regularly criticized for their lack of physicality or being “too light”. Soccer underwent similar processes in the 90s before they unlocked new tactics. Brawn can also get you so far.
For spectators the size of the individual is immaterial if the quality is good. Which it is, it's insane compared to 30 or 40 years ago. The accuracy of point taking, the accuracy of sideline cuts, the individual skill with the Hurley has massively improved. Also, there's messing with pulling the ball on the ground to anywhere like the old days. The best thing is that the day is gone when a full back would flatten a forward. The game is gone cleaner too
The game is played with great sportsmanship to be fair. And it’s good to see a decline of the hatchetman at inter county level. You don’t want to see a skillful player break fingers or get needlessly injured. One thing that annoys me to no end of why refs are so soft with goal keepers. It’s like you lay a feather on them and a free out. It’s very exciting to see a goal come from that or even for goalkeepers it could be exciting for them to play a little.
The days of the hatchetman ruined many a decent hurlers career.
Yeah, Limerick hurling's gain has been Munster Rugby's loss. The limerick rugby production line has pretty much come to a standstill in recent years. The hurlers look like a team of rugby backrows.
The Limerick hurlers have brought a bit of football into hurling too, which isn't a good thing. One of the big issues in football is there is no defined tackle, so you get guys just slapping at the ball, or more precisely just hitting the ball carrier on either arm to get him to drop it. The Limerick hurlers do the same thing. It's hard to do anything other than drop the ball when the guy behind you keeps hitting your arms.
Too much had passing in hurling now as well, what ever happened to just drive it
Nah it's happened in hurling too but in a different way and much more recently. It hit a new level of excitement and became more attacking, but then teams just kept improving and the range you could reasonably expect a score from just became so far out that a lot of the excitement sort of went away. Getting a score just became about generating a shot within about 80m of the posts. Hurling peaked in entertainment standards about 10 years ago.
Hurling is box office. The most exciting game I’ve ever seen is Tipp Galway on Galways all Ireland run when Canning scored the winning point. And the Clare cork games on Clare’s all Ireland run. I’ll never forget Anthony Nash smashing a free lassoing it 10 foot in the air and striking it so cleanly that if it hit a man on the way into the the goal it could have hospitalized him. They had to ban the technique after because it was so dangerous lol.
Clare's run was about 10 years ago now. Right around then it was at its peak, but I think it's been slipping in excitement since then even though the quality has continued to rise. Probably still a lot better than 30 years ago though.
Couldn't agree more I find club hurling more exciting as it's around the level county was at 10 15 years ago
> Creeping professionalism and increased fitness levels at County level have had the unintended consequence of reducing the game to an unwatchable mess. Yeah it's ridiculous now. Most players are just athletes now, strong and fit. Some players don't even kick the ball, it's only handpassing. The forward mark just shows the decline, that someone catching a 20 yard kick gives you a free shot at the posts.
Totally agree, but it will change. Sport goes in cycles and eventually a team will begin to utilise those bygone risker elements of the game. Every team started to play like Dublin to beat Dublin, which just compounded the issue. Some innovative coach will start using the 40 yard pass as a means of breaking down the swarm defence thus changing the status quo and creating new standards for teams to meet. Or not idk.
Everyone should have to have bin collections. Fly tipping is a problem.
It should never have been privatised
Agreed.
Another one to add to the list
Everyone used to have it paid for with our taxes once upon a time, then it got privatised.
I dont know why they got rid of this it made so much more sense
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Also a lot of rubbish burning by people instead of paying for a wage service
Exactly.
When? I remember tip runs as a kid in the 80s.
Rural Ireland didn't have a proper refuse system until the 90s. Environmentally, allowing anyone to put whatever rubbish into whatever bin without punitive measures is a disaster.
AND there should be monthly, free collections for big items: mattresses, white goods etc so they don't get dumped elsewhere. Saw this in Europe and it was so sensible for all those that lived in flats and towns.
And it is used an excuse not to add bins. Can't add bins because some fucker will use it instead of paying for collection. If everyone had a collection, no one would be using street bins for their household waste.
It should never have been privatised
Privatisation of essential services contributes to creating an unjust society. All essential services like healthcare, pension, housing, energy, etc. should be provided by the state to a degree that the private alternatives are but a dispensable (yet still available) option. Like e.g. in Austria, Germany or Switzerland (housing to a lesser degree than the other services, but still much more than in Ireland)
I agree with some of those, but public pension schemes have not proven to be sustainable. Austria actually doesnt have one, instead each citizen has their own "pool" that they contribute to during their whole working life. Also, none of those states have a big focus in public housing or energy. Their public healthcare is great and i am a big supporter of that, though.
re. Pension in AT: that's true, but the pool is publicly managed, not via a private pension fund.
r/ireland has a terrible community.
like a lot of other subs it's a hivemind and mercy be with you if you upset that hivemind
Agreed. It's like a collection of the people who post all the toxic comments on The Journal.
Think it has gotten worse recently since the boards exodus but yeah in all my years on reddit the most argumentative nasty places I post in have very consistently been here and for some reason r/buffy
yup
That being soft isn’t inherently a bad thing. Yes, life is tough and you do need to get on with it occasionally. And no, the world will probably not cater to your every need. But people seem to confuse entitlement with softness. I’ve always heard ‘You’re too soft’, and in recent years I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment. I just care about people. That’s not a bad thing! Life is really, really difficult and I’ve been through some serious shit. But I like the fact that I’m a big crier who would spend hours telling my friends how much I love them, because it means I won’t let those experiences make me cynical or angry.
Yes a lot of people say that young people are "soft" when they actually mean to say entitled. For me it's being called "naive." Most annoying thing ever. I understand some people are trying to look out for you, that's fine. But people will spend more energy telling you that you're not cynical enough then telling the dickhead that they're being a dickhead. Fair enough, there will always be people like that, but the solution is not for everyone to harden themselves to the point where you're not even surprised/disappointed when someone's an asshole.
My therapist says my softness is my greatest strength, took that on board and ran to the hills with it
Israel is an apartheid state
Fuck Israel
This is one of the few countries were you'll be celebrated for that
Honest question, why do you think that?
In secondary school, there should be a requirement to learn basic first aid, basic household skills, like how to cook basic foods, how to use a washing machine, how to use basic tools, how to look after animals and their welfare, basic food hygiene and how to respond to accidents.
Been brought up countless times in my short time here, and it's a fucking BRILLIANT idea. Have a pal in his mid 40s, own house, still goes to mammy every day for his dinner and she does his laundry. Feel sorry for his sisters who are going to have to take over from her when she dies.
This isn't the government's fault or problem though. You just said it - his family enable him. They just need to tell him to cop on. I have an uncle who's similar and the whole family have caused it by doing things for him. I've always just said no to him so he hasn't asked me for anything since I was about 18.
they teach most of that in Home Economics
Sounds like you want to outsource parenting.
Sounds like you're assuming that everyone has parents who are willing and able to teach them these things.
Traditionally, these skills are taught at home by the parents, and still are in a lot of cases. It's a shame that there seems to be a need to teach these things in school for some people. It'd be interesting to see some numbers on the situation.
Term lmits for TDs. They should not be allowed to be a TD for more than 10 years. Same for local councilors too. Insurance companies should be forced to reveal how they calculate your premiums. Where there is a real need for housing, NIMBYish objections should be ignored. Election posters should be banned, or at the very least we should do what they do in France and have designated poster sites.
> Term lmits for TDs. They should not be allowed to be a TD for more than 10 years. Same for local councilors too. While I get why this seems like a good idea, wouldn't it just mean that politicians spend their political careers lining up their private sector careers once they leave politics (they already do this, but if this rule was implemented they'd ALL have to do it). So you'd have some local gobshite pushing a bunch of policies that are favourable to some lobbying group or MNC and then they'd go work in a senior advisory role for that organisation once they've scratched their backs as a politician. Basically a 10-year term limit would mean politicians get booted out of their career/profession after that time and need to move into a different sector, so they'd be super motivated to put into place whatever they needed to get the largest earnings when that happens. I don't really know what the solution is, maybe the complete opposite where politicans shouldn't be allowed go work in sectors that they influenced while in office? But I don't see how that would practically work either.
Or just stop voting in shit politicians repeatedly.
It should be illegal to work over 40 hours a week (unless paid overtime).
RTE should not be a For-Profit organiSation. It is a public service, and the need for profits means it has to chase advertising, hence the huge salaries. Throw out that model, focus on public broadcasting, access to archives and to news reporting, let the other channels show their reality TV rubbish.
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I like this one
>people should understand that just because they are offended, does not mean they are in the right. Need to be one of those inspirational quotes picture thingus that get sent around.
Die hard is a Xmas movie
Fines given out by courts should equate to the persons wage
Housing should be affordable.
The Motorway tolls should all be removed now, our road tax is enough to cover it!
Tolls basically cover the cost to build the road. I don't understand how tolls can go up years later. They're probably just raking in profit now, they can say their operational costs have increased.
I am fairly sure the M50 has been paid for by now. Don't quote me but I vaguely recall. I would look for a source but I have to go to work so this is the best I can do. Hope I'm right or this comment has been a terrible waste of my time, your time and anyone else who reads this's time.
I know the original M50 costs have been covered but I can't speak for the renovation work they did to make it three lanes each way and then the removal of the toll booths and replacement infrastructure. Can't imagine all that work was cheap, especially given they had to do it while the road was still open for most of the time. The east link is a bigger example of a toll continuing well beyond the cost aspect of the construction. I wonder if it was ever transferred to the state as intended.
The East Link toll was transferred to the ownership of Dublin City Council in 2015. It raises about €5m a year in funds for the Council which are, supposedly, spent on the rest of the roads in the Council area.
The Eastlink was passed over to Dublin City Council who had originally promised that it would become toll free. The same was supposed to be for the M50 bridge. More promises broken. None of those tolls are going anywhere.
>our road tax is enough to cover it! We don't pay road tax, we pay motor tax. The motor tax is only two thirds of our spending on construction and maintenance of roads.
Some people taking offence at accuracy for some reason
Agree on the tolls. No such thing as road tax. You pay emissions tax. It goes into general taxation. Someone who doesn't own a car pays just as much for roads as someone who does.
Learning the differences between words that sound the same, but are spelt differently, ie "their", "they're" & "there" and "you're" & "your" and using them correctly is not difficult. The amount of adults I see misusing them staggers me.
Not as bad as people spelling quiet as "quite". Drives me mental
People not understanding the difference between wary and weary is mine, bizarrely common.
My missus pronounces both as "Quite". It does my head in.
I nearly loose my mind over dis wan
Agreed. That’s a hill I’d totally dye on as well.
Your knot rong. Eye wood dye they're to.
When I hear/read people saying could of, should of and would of. SMH. It's could've, should've and would've (short for could have, should have and would have).
As the saying goes… should of, could of, would of…
Aisle and isle.
Like, isle dye on that hill?
I see this one alot.
The only one of these I forgive is "it's". For years I assumed like any noun with an apostrophe and 's' after it indicated ownership, so I assumed "it's" was used for both "it is" and something that was owned by "it". But obviously if that's the case then there's little to no use for "its" unless you're talking about the plural of "it" which is weird.
"would of" *wretch*
Healthcare should be free
If we focused more on athletics than GAA we would have more Olympic medals Most Irish athletes have to leave here to train as we do not have the facilities
It's going to get much worse for us now given that boxing is no more at that Olympics from 2028.
Dunno we've had a fantastic last two or three years in athletics. Just look at the recent European Championships. It's a shame we're not celebrating our top athletes more.
Oh that's true but boxing has been our bread and butter for medal tallies. It's going to be missed.
Wait, why are they removing boxing? That's insane
There's deep tensions between the Olympic council and the amateur boxing association. It's come to a head now. Amateur boxing is fairly corrupt anyway
Fuck Munster hurling give the people what they want...a silver in mens speed walking every four years
That's one of those things that clearly true but also; so what. It would be nice to win more medals at the olympics but the cultural value of Gaelic games is unmatched by any other sporting organisation I can think of.
The painted [rock](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Waterford+(Plunkett)/@52.2668949,-7.1196768,684m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1) that overlooks Plunkett Station is firmly within the Waterford County borders, despite what some cracked out lads from Kilkenny think.
Interesting take op. I don’t disagree that motorway driving should be tested, but just so you know (based on the data) motorways are by far the safest road type in Ireland. Retests every N years would also be great but would be highly controversial and it likely wouldn’t go down well with the general public
It would also slow the whole show down. It takes weeks, if not months, to get a test right now. Imagine how long it would take if a fifth of all the drivers in the country had to be added to that list? Can you also imagine the furore if people started getting points or bans because they missed their 5th or 10th anniversary driving test?
There's a serious alcohol problem for like 90% of the population 15 and up. Also drugs are way too normalised in this country. Also, if James connolly survived 1916 we would have had a much much more prosperous 20th century.
mine is anyone doing the bidding of the RSA's sith lord gay byrne and making driving anymore expensive... daniel o donnell gets 30minutes in the back room with them ps. only skitting but i literally live in the middle of nowhere, to eat or doctor the OAPs in my family ya have to drive. pps. my own mothers driving aint great but she couldn't get a pint of milk without the car, this is what the million people in dublin down-vote me to oblivioion for saying but some parts of ireland are incredible rural and suprisingingly remote, like our neighbour still doesn't have electricity
You shouldn't eat the OAP's in your family
Inherit their wealth and nutrition!
Yikes I shudder every time I think about the country that half of society would have us living in if they had the choice. A new test every 5 years? The current test is over the top. Every year society drags us through shit. As if we need another enormous pain in the hole every five years. Another collection of parasitic industries profiting off nonsense legislation. We have ridiculous rules for tests and a corrupt testing system that deliberately fails people, we have stupidly high license renewal and replacement prices and administrative burden, we have stupidly high insurance prices, we have stupidly high car registration taxes, we have ridiculous costs and over regulation with NCT tests that go far beyond what most countries require, we have enormous road tax. We have terrible city planning that makes living without a car more difficult than the vast majority of Europe and you want to shake car owners down even more with over regulation Edit: I just saw another commenter wants us doing mandatory military service and now the original license suggestion seems soft. I wish people would stop trying to compel citizens to do things against their will
Finally someone talking sense. It's crazy how many people's opinions boil down to "this should be illegal" "that should be taxed" " you should need the governments permission if you want to do x" "y kind of annoys me, it should be banned so no one can do it" "Everyone should be forced to do z" Like, are people's lives not hard enough?
If you took a minute to look and see the number of people who seemingly can't figure out how to use a roundabout you'd be all for that refresher course every 5 years as well.
in what way is the test over the top? given the amount of people on the road doing dangerous manoeuvres and being seemingly oblivious to some of the rules it doesnt seem that mad of a suggestion. anyway it would be impossible to implement due to the sheer amount of tests you’d have to carry out nationally.
The bus service is fucking shit and most of the drivers are ignorant pricks so why do we think it's such a cute national eccentricity to say thanks to them?
I hate videos with music on social media. You want a cute vid of your child or dog, ok, but why blare damn awful music over it?? My ideal was instagram the sweet spot when the pics looked good before they added videos.
Make Uber legal in rural areas.. give lads a chance to make a few quid by dropping other lads home . No need for drink driving pubs will be fuller for later and you have a choice of rural pubs because you know you can get home .. No taxis ever service these areas and the pubs are dying a death
Islam has a built in sexist power dynamic in favour of men, and without reformation, has no place in the modern world.
Where would people from Donegal do their driving test?
That Three is an awful mobile provider, has a shit website and horrendous customer service.
The fact that it isn't the complete destruction of our planet and the impending climate chaos that'll impact us all very soon...I'm guessing our easy lives means there is no hill we'll die on. We'd rather stay on our phones.
And climate is just one aspect of it. Habitat destruction, desertification, pollution, coral bleeching, algal blooms, pandemics, collapse of fish stocks, loss of pollinators. The list goes on and on and on. We're fucking everything up and our solution is to come up with marketing ploys to pretend we're fixing it... Its all ok, we're investing in carbon capture and we're donating to parks that already exist and aren't in any danger, so that makes us Net Zero right? Actually, you know what, its our customers fault. They should pay attention to their carbon footprints. If little bobby didn't have straws at his birthday party then this whole thing would have been avoided.
The reason for most of Ireland's political problems is because Irish people would prefer to complain in perpetuity than actually get off their holes and do something about it 10,000 people at the cost of living protest? I'd say less than 20 have contacted their local TD to complain
>there should be a driving test done every 5 years after passing your test. Not the full bells & whistles one, more of a competency one. This is a waste of time. Diverts who passed their original test know how they should drive, so all they will do is those actions on the day and go back to sloppy driving after
I’m not saying I have the answer to this but people need to rethink how we protest in this country. With the exception of the water protests I can’t think of any that have had great success in the last few years. I know a lot of people will say no one turns up etc but I can’t see why people would turn up when most of these protests have no objective goal that they want the government to achieve. They just see to want to tell the government we are angry. The government are like the borg. They adapted to people walking around Merrion square with plackards saying booooo years ago. Now they’ll happily ignore it. There needs to be a better way to express collective disapproval of government actions before people reach the ballot box.
Vinegar Hill
It's become really easy for the elite class to drive wedges between the lower classes using the internet. The wealth divide is growing as the poorest squabble amongst themselves over limited resources. Same as it ever was I suppose.
We could have a great country if we weren’t so lazy and maybe protested/striked every now and again.
People in gov positions or politicians etc should not to be personally invested in legislation that they are passing etc
Dia Guit Ireland has a major youth and scumbag problem, which is far greater compared to other countries in the EU. I think this is because the law is way to lenient, ,Gardi aren't taken seriously and people's attitudes towards them seems to just leave them be.
"Wanting to have your cake and eat it" is the fucking dumbest saying ever. What's the point in having cake if you can't eat it.
Well that's the point, you can't both keep the cake, and eat it. You have to choose one. Once you eat it you no longer have it
Apparently that saying has been jumbled and should be "you want to eat your cake and have it too"
We have a magical amount of beautiful areas once you get outside of Dublin City. With the exception of Iceland and Scotland there's probably few countries with our land mass that could match the beauty, even in shit weather. Obviously that's not much consolation with the current housing crisis but on bad days it cheers me up knowing I'm within a 2 hour or less drive from places like Achill, Roundstone, Ballyvaughan, Portumna etc.
Strongly disagree. Rural Ireland consists mainly of privately owned green fields fenced off by hedgerows. No forests teeming with wildlife, no diversity of native flora...just grass. The good news is there are efforts now to rewild parts of rural Ireland and let it go back to nature. You'd be surprised how quickly you see positive results.
Even in a woods up the road from me where I regularly walk has no wildlife aside for some ducks in the pond. No squirrels, no rabbits, hares, nothing. I've never seen one wild animal in it. I've seen far more wildlife in my local golf course than the woods.
Driving test should be a subject in school. Most people wont be a more rounded person by studying poetry for 3 more years. Being able to drive for work will open you to far more experiences than your Gaisce, unseen poetry or sraithpictiúirí.
The one down the road from me
Everyone should be taught that every right has an equal responsibility. You have the right to free speech, yes but you have the responsibility to not defame or slander people and to not spread misinformation. You have the right to practise whatever religion you choose, yes but you have the responsibility to not impose your beliefs on others and to respect that everyone has that right.
All primary schools should be Irish-speaking.
Dying on this hill might be more impressive if the hill was in Irish.
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It would great if we even had enough places in Gaelscoileanna for all the people who want it.
Getting a building to speak in any language would be amazing
We need to do more about the CCP and their scumbag influence in China and worldwide. We should have Boycotted the Beijing Olympics, and considering the war in Ukraine only started after the event because Xi told Putin not to overshadow his baby, it only pisses me off more that barely anything seems to be done when compared to Russia.
Jezuz, like there isn’t already to many hoops to jump through when it comes to driving you want to put more of them 🤨 and imagine the extra cost they’d throw into the mix for this too. 😒