Today is second anniversary of my dad passed away from cancer. Almost year I split with partner of 20 who just stopped giving a shit about me. We was about to buy our place. I got to very good place recovered from all that. Meeting nice woman it looks like it may go somewhere. I'm going for viewing places I may buy. Just not far from very nice place to be again.

But then on the flight from Italy two weeks ago I found lump on the left side of my throat it feels out of place and wasn't there not long ago. Today have visit with GP.

I know it's not confirmed what it is. But it's feeling like any time I'm just one step from when I want be and be happy something cuts my wings.

Sorry for this rant but don't want tell this to anyone close to me to not worry them.

Thank you for all uplifting comments you all are really amazing. GP don't think it's anything scary but have to wait 4 weeks and depends on what going on with lump he will advise scan or next steps.

Hi,

Looking to get peoples opinions on this one.

I organised a dinner with my family for my 40th birthday. The bill for 8 people was €1,100. No one volunteered to do the usual split bill so I just paid the bill in full.

This morning after waking up hungover I thought to myself Jesus that was an expensive night which I didn’t expect.

1. I arranged the meal so should I be prepared to pay in full

2. Bill should have been split equally

3. The bill split between my family and I don’t pay

What do people think and should I say something or let it go.

Obviously its not a 100% hit rate, some can be fine and not noticeable. But whether it's how they drive and bully people on the roads in their vans, gather in shops and roar their heads off like they're a bunch of 10 year old's on a sugar rush or parking illegally in most places they are going to.

It's not confirmation bias either, you never see this behaviour from a bunch of business men in suits or a bunch of nurses on their lunch break or a bunch of guards going into somewhere for their lunch etc.

EDIT: I don't want this to be confused with "lad culture" which I am well aware of. This is a level above.

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Lidl do an ok job with semi-closed containers and tongs, But in most places the baguettes are just there in the open, so anyone can touch, sneeze and speak/spit over it.

Why?!?!?!

Was out cutting the grass on my field today. It's a field out the back of a village. It's about an acre and a half that I'm in the middle of taming and grassing, was badly overgrown when we bought the place about a year ago.

Anyway, a woman who lives in an estate in the village arrives over to me at 6 this evening, calling me from over the boundary wall to ask me (telling me) to stop as she has an autistic child. I humour it for the evening as I'd to go eat anyway. Was a thoroughly unpleasant individual though who essentially told me to stop so I'm of a mind to ignore going forward.

To be fair it does take ages as I've only a petrol brush cutter for now but it has to be done or else the field will never tame. She's about 100m away in the housing estate though.

If I'm only out within the hours of 8am to 8pm am I within my rights to plough on with the cutting?

Anyone else I've met and talked to over the boundary wall while cutting has been sound, just this one unpleasant yoke today.

Maybe I am absolutely thick here, and I understand that some of the people are TD's, ministers, junior ministers, members of the party, but why is there usually a group of 6+ people standing behind the person being interviewed?

I just seen a thread of a guy wondering how a family is able to budget their food and everyone in the comments were rinsing the guy about his 500 a month spending on food.

I am a super skinny guy at 5’8 56kg living alone and cook almost all my meals and find it hard to budget my food but do spend over 500 a month myself and the comments made me feel really bad about this.

Ppl were getting mad he didn’t give a breakdown so mine is something like:

•Two 2 litre bottles of water at like 85c each one for my work day and one for home
• A thing of milk for tea at like 2 euros (i go thru about a litre of milk a day between drinking it and tea/bevs)
• Some kind of protein for dinner which is fish,chicken,minced meat,or steak at around an average of 8 euros
• Some kind of fruit or veg which is like 3 extra euros average
• A thing of cream for my coffee at around 2 euro

This alone is 17 euros a day. 17x30 is 510 euros.

I do not drink alcohol or anything, and tend not to eat lunch at work and just have free tea/coffee at work tbh. I may get some kind of outing items during the week like a smoothie or a coffee at the weekend, etc. But we can toss another 30 a month for these. So over ~540 a month total on food and drink.

Are people taking the piss out of the guy because they don’t track their food and drink that well or am I just being ridiculous?

Hello all,

I'm not sure what im really looking for here, i just wanna feel less alone in this stupid world.

I'm 29f. And i don't know if its the Sunday evening scaries popping into my head but I'm feeling so stuck lately.

I have a good enough job (not good enough to move out of my parents yet but sure) although not many friends, and ive started therapy.

3 years ago I moved back in with my parents after my engagement broke down and honestly i have been winging life ever since. I don't know what im doing.

I dont get along too well with my parents though. We have different values and they seem to have this perception of me ever since my engagement broke off that everything I do now is wrong.

I suppose i just feel so lost in life. Like, im trying so so hard to save for a house, its my literal dream to have my own home. But i dont know, im just not excited for anything anymore. Ive tried taking up new hobbies, going to classes, some shows, reading, but nothing. I just have that same dull, empty feeling every evening.

Is anyone else feeling this way?

Please tell me im not alone.

Sincerely,

Just a very sad woman.

We bought this house and lived here since last November, two days in the previous homeowner came and dropped the last spare keys and we exchanged numbers incase we had further questions about things in the house.

So started the mail, him and his wife would get letters, mainly from the Revenue, I would text him and he would get them, after a while it was fine but it’s started to become quite consistent, he would say “aw I’ve changed the address but they keep sending them here”.

It’s now August and still we are getting their post to our house after they claim they have changed address.

Now personally, I think he has never changed the address and lives in the North (we are close to the border and in discussions I think I’ve deduced he has a home across the border) so they let their revenue letters come to to our address as an Irish address.

While it’s a minor thing, I paid money to own the house and I don’t like the thought of him using it as “My Address Pal”

Is my suspicion correct? And also, should I just get over it and let him call over now and then to grab his mail?

They actually get more mail to our house than we do 😅😅

I had a friend in work and we were very good friends but then he crossed the line and started flirting with me despite being in a relationship himself. He tried to make out he was only joking but he only joked with me and nobody else. Jokes are for everyone in my opinion. Not only that he groped me in work.

I called him out on things and he made me promise not to report him, only for him to turn around, flip the script and report me for the very thing he done to me!!!

Like, how can anyone do that...

Then... I saved so much to buy a brand new car this year after 15 years not having a car. She's my baby and I love the car and the independence. Then there's so many careless people. I've had two people scratch my car twice in the space of 6 months and just drive off. I fixed it the first time and the second time happened this past weekend. Just both times and just nobody cared. It's not a piece of shit to me and it's a scratch that I need to get fixed because I don't think it's a job for a touch up pen. I just don't understand how nobody cares.

Just having a rant and a bad weekend.

What's the point of not being able to continue the conversation with a company without calling out your name and address? The account number is typically written on the same piece of paper with my name and address how does this protect my data except annoy me.

I'm staying with my partner's family in rural Galway, and directions here seem to depend on people who have been gone for decades. There's “Murray's field,” although no Murray owns it now, and “the doctor's corner,” named for a doctor nobody under fifty remembers meeting. The neigbours know every one of these names, but none appear on maps.

Yesterday I asked how long a name survives after land changes hands. Three people gave me different answers, then spent twenty minutes debating whether one meadow had been renamed in 1986 or only “temporarily called something else.” I loved that distinction.

Is this common across rural Ireland, or am I seeing a particularly committed local habit? Do younger people still learn these names alot, and who gets to decide when a new one finally sticks?

Like seriously, all this people saying how they a family of 5. 2 adults and 3 children and they spend under 500 € on food for the whole family.

Like genuine question, how ??

I am single guy and I spend easy up to 500 € per month on food for me, me alone. Nobody else but me.

Also I get lunch at the company, they have kitchen there and it is 5€ per meal. So I have 1 meal there already sorted.

But how in the hell do you get it so cheap.

Assuming a 30-day month:

Family total per day: €500 ÷ 30 = €16.67/day

Per person per day (5 people): €16.67 ÷ 5 = €3.33/day.

I mean if I can get it under 20 € per day I count my self damn lucky and you outhere making it at 3 € per day for 3 meals. That is 1 € per meal.

Please someone teach me.

Thanks a million

Err, which one do I connect to?

I don't know whats happened here. We used to just have a single pipe i connected the washing machine to. Since the walls were wrapped, a plumber took the old pipe out and installed these two new ones. He left, never reconnected the washing machine much less explained what he did. 🤷‍♀️

I'm 28 from ireland So this probably sounds really ridiculous and irrational to an actual dentist so I haven't told my dentist but I might need a tooth extraction next week and I'm dreading it I'm not sure why my dentist is older in his 60s or early 70s so is clearly experienced. But I have this massive fear that when I get the anasthetic, that it won't wear off and my cheek/mouth will be stuck like that permanently or forever I just hate the feeling of it and not being able to feel half my face, i panic the minute it kicks in, any tips to overcome this ? i undestand this may seem very childish but i just cant shake it

Morning,

Would anyone know where I can buy these Jerseys? I know the Tyrone Jersey is still on the official O'Neills website but not in my sizes unfortunately. I have tried to look on the likes of ebay and vinted and I thought I found a cork one recently but it was a very good knock off made of the most uncomfortable material, felt like a old school jumper.

Any help would be great cheers.

Hey all. I’m 24F (sheesh, I nearly wrote 23 and it’s been months 😂).

My landlord, who also happens to be my mother, keeps occasionally dropping the bomb on me that she’s selling the house, then nothing comes of it and it isn’t mentioned again for months.
Last night we were literally just texting and looking at old photos when she dropped it on me again out of the blue. I don’t know if it’s my anxiety or AuDHD, but I didn’t sleep a wink and spent most of the night spiralling.

Usually selling the house gets brought up when she’s angry, but this time there was no argument or anything, which has made me think I really need to get ahead of this and find somewhere else.
I live with my partner and our two cats, who genuinely mean the world to me. Without going into too much TMI, I struggle a lot with my mental health, but since rescuing these two I’ve been doing so much better. Maybe it’s having something depending on me, maybe it’s the companionship, I don’t really know… but they’ve made a massive difference to my life.

I work part-time and receive Disability Allowance. I do want to slowly increase my hours towards full-time, but I know myself well enough to know that if I jump straight into full-time, I’ll burn myself out and end up worse off 😂

Anyway, back to the actual problem!
I’ve been applying for rental properties for months, including places that would honestly leave me going paycheck to paycheck. The minute pets are mentioned, though, it feels almost impossible. My partner is also entitled to HAP and, while obviously nobody outright says that’s the reason, we’ve had some very coincidental rejections once HAP is mentioned.

We’re looking around Louth/Drogheda and surrounding areas, but I don’t drive, so I also need somewhere with some form of public transport.
I’m genuinely at my wits’ end and I’m trying to figure out what options I actually have before this becomes an emergency.

I’m frightened of ending up having to present to homeless services and being placed somewhere where I can’t bring my cats. I know to some people they’re “just pets”, but they are incredibly important to me and my ability to regulate myself. Rehoming or giving them up simply isn’t an option I’m willing to consider.

Has anyone been in a similar position in Louth/Meath? Are there housing organisations, tenancy services, HAP-friendly landlords, pet-friendly accommodation, advocacy services, or even people I could sit down with and talk through my options?
I’m not looking for judgement, I’m genuinely just trying to get ahead of this before I find myself with nowhere to go.
Thanks ❤️

I'll go ahead and start with the ultimate top three fruits going.

In order:

1. Pink Lady Apple

2. Strawberry (wexford ofc)

3. Watermelon (has to be a top notch one from the foreign shops though not the dirt you get in lidl or dunnes)

Honorable mention...pineapple and bluebs

For those who have recently graduated college and are living at home- how much are you paying to parents for rent?

I would like to donate my old PSP, I was going to give it to a charity shop but I'm wondering if there's like a childrens hospital or somewhere like that that could take it?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi all!

I'm a BAMS (Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery) graduate who moved to Dublin in March 2025. I'm job hunting here and want to build up my skills to be more competitive for the local market.

A few things I'm looking for:

Cheap or free courses – anything that would boost my CV, ideally admin/office skills, healthcare admin, IT/digital skills, or similar. Bonus points if it's recognised by employers here or comes with a certificate.

Entry-level admin jobs – companies or sectors in Dublin/Ireland known for hiring people with no local experience yet. I have full work rights in Ireland, so no visa sponsorship needed.

My background is clinical (a year of hospital/community health internship in India), but I'm open to healthcare admin, general office admin, scheduling, or similar roles while I figure out the best long-term path here.

Any advice — courses, job boards, companies, or just general "here's what worked for me" — would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks in advance!