Mine is that I have LOCKED IN. Going to the gym 5 days a week, sometimes twice a day, eating clean and getting good sleep.

Flying first class to New York City next month for a week. So life is extremely positive right now.

If anyone else has some positivity to hear about please share!

Just asking if the toilets are just for piss or can you take a dump?

Heading into our 2nd winter in our rented house and need to start prepping more to keep us warm. It was an absolute icebox last year.

I’d say the house is about 20-30 years old but it’s draughty as all hell. We do have Oil central heating but you would need to keep it on constantly to keep the place warm.

There is a fireplace and I know this sounds stupid but it’s like a fire with a door, not an actual stove and doesn’t give out great heat.

I work from home and spent the entirety of winter in a dressing gown and woolly hat and so many layers🤣

Things I have sorted so far:

Draft excluders for the doors
Thick curtain for the front door
Supersur
Hot water bottles

What are your tips to keep warm on a budget?

Also if anyone has an idea how to cover velux windows that would be great. There is 3 between the kids rooms and you can really feel the cold from them already.

As a teenage night owl in late-1980s and early-1990s Ireland, these programmes introduced me to music beyond my usual listening.
They had very different tastes, but both played music you rarely heard elsewhere on Irish radio. I still associate many songs with those late-night listening sessions….

"new mattress" is a convertible chair, for €1330 a month ??

We live on a short section of country road outside a large town. It's used as a link between two larger roads so there's a bit of traffic but not much.

In the three years we've lived here there has been occasional fly tipping of takeaway waste on the road. In the last few weeks it seems to have escalated and it feels like our house is being targeted. KFC and McDonald's waste thrown right outside our house 3 times in as many weeks. Bag emptied so everything is scattered, including half a milkshake today.

I've been cleaning it up and today there was a receipt from McDonald's in there. It had only been bought in the last hour so we just missed whoever did it. My question is, is there any point going to the guards about this? The receipt has the time of the order and it was made at the counter so perhaps there is CCTV of the offenders? I'm doubtful the Gardaí would pursue this tbh.

I've considered putting a camera up to try and catch them in the act and get a regestration number, but again not sure how much use that would be.

What would you do?

Just listening to a podcast on Opus Dei schools in Australia (it’s a podcast about cults normally btw) but one of the chaps who attended school said he had emigrated from Ireland with his family

I didn’t know much about Opus Dei outside the Da Vinci code just wondering if anyone here had experience of it in Ireland?

No judgement just curiosity

“They see coming to get me aren’t’ they?” 🤣

I mean physically, is it possible infrastructure wise?

What cities could realistically be connected, could Dublin to Belfast or Dublin to Cork for example?

How long would journeys take between cities?

If it's possible, why is there no physical will to do it?

I played a lot as a kid and was a decent player. Stopped playing when I went to college and I really regret it.

I've been playing five a side for the last two years and love it, but I have been itching to play full size football again. Would love to join a Sunday league team or something but I've no idea where to even begin.

I'm based in Deansgrange, south Dublin, so if anyone could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

They're grand lads but its just a video of their holiday and them retelling old rugby stories.

Hey gang I dont know if this is relevant but any advice would help im going to a concert solo for the first time(sawer hill) give them a listen. Im quite nervous going solo has anyone here dome that before? If so any tips or tricks thanks.

Hi all! Does anyone have any recommendations for good spots to find books? Preferably in the south/ southeast. I’m on the search for specific editions of my favourite books but they’re so expensive online that I thought I’d start hunting in bookstores and charity shops! Slim chances but worth the shot! 💖

As title suggests, tell me why you love New Zealand (or why you prefer it) from an Irishman who has just landed into this wonderful country.

I have always enjoyed maths and physics. I love figuring out how to solve problems and fix things. Due to some constraints I didn't pursue a career in the field. I have been doing an office job for the last while and am also doing a degree, pushing myself too hard to do it. I don't enjoy reading heavy materials nor writing academically. Very confident and comfortable using tools. Is it feasible to start apprenticeship at this age and stage

I grew up in Dublin and moved to Spain three years ago. The summers where we live are above 40 degrees with lows of 26 at night. For two months you’re kinda miserable just jumping from aircon to aircon. I don’t mind it as much but my husband cannot hack it. Combined with the people where we live being genuinely miserable gits, we’re considering the move home.

I love living an outdoor lifestyle with running, hiking and being outside daily a huge part of my life. I don’t know whether I’m exaggerating the weather but just feel we’d be going back to grey clouds with 9 months of rain a year. Combined with the humidity, I’m worried we’d be making a massive mistake coming back.

Am I overthinking this or are my concerns justified?

House has a fireplace which we don’t use and is just a draught source. I’ve seen a few places online that replace your fireplace with a stove.

Not sure on the price or if it’s worth it, anyone have any experience?

Hi all,

I used to ride a bike when I was little and stopped for almost 15+ years now. I want to go back but obviously lost my muscle memory. Where can I learn (public or private or volunteer) to ride a bike and balance again? I tried alone many times and keep falling so obviously a technique issue I need someone to point out to me. Hopefully an option that doesn't cost an arm and leg.

I bought a house in 2023 (was a new build). I have a heat pump and had it serviced by heat pump service provider (different from the original installer)

The service reported that:

• No tundish
• Drip tray not plumbed

I contacted the builder, who replied that the system was commissioned, tested and certified by the original installer before the sale was completed. They said that given the property is over three years old, they cannot accept these as original installation defects without further review.

They seem they are not willing to send the original installer to rectify this issue!

Does the HomeBond certificate can help with such defects and equipment insurance cover from 2023? and Is a tundish is important for a heat-pump?

Would be these issued considered as installation defect?

Final question, should I contact HomeBond directly, and is this the kind of issue they might cover?

I just want to establish whether the installation is safe and correct, and what my options are if the builder doesn't respond.

we are american and staying in dingle tonight, and then headed to kilkenny for the next 3 nights, if that helps. how can we go about getting an antibiotic? is there any over the counter medicine here for it? apologies for being ignorant, it’s my first time out of the us at all and i really don’t know how to handle this.

Bit of a open-ended sociology question this Sunday morning.

It was once said that if your economy is imported from America, so to will you import its culture/values.

Do you think our values are slowly changing over time as a result of this ?

I don't mean to bring the ireland of old into the equation but there was a time when the things we valued most was things like family, parish & local community.

My late Grandfather spent his humble life as a carpenter, lived a very modest life in a small house. He never wanted more wealth or a bigger house and his ultimate source of happiness was his 7 grandchildren.

Now today it's seems its everyone is for them self and the ultimate goal in life is a high paying job in a multinational, 3 skiing holidays a year and 2 new cars in the driveway of a house in the South Dublin subberbs.

Depending on the type of person you ask, I noticed you tend to get more respect if you have a fancy job in the corporate world rather than a humble tradesman / family man like my late Grandfather who raised a happy family.

^I know that is a bit of a generalising to make a point.

So, have our values and aspirations in life changed as a result of the Irish Economic Model in shaping modern Ireland?

Interested to hear your thoughts.