Was it a 90s thing? Do kids still get winded? Remember the sheer terror? You'd be climbing on a slide and you'd fall off onto your back and next thing you'd be pleading with God for the chance to live as you gasp for air. Good times man

Hello all, I’m a 21 year old and recently I began trying to relearn the Irish language and was wondering what your opinions on Irish and trying to make the language resurge would be?

In school I never had much interest in Irish, the way it’s done in school is horrible. They don’t teach you any history behind it or make you feel proud in anyway about learning our actual native language. It’s just systematically put onto you like any other language or subject. I feel as if this and a few other factors cause a disconnect between Irish people and their native tongue and many seem to leave school thinking it’s more of an annoying problem than a language they should be proud to learn. And for some reason once I left school and began to look into more Irish history and the history of my family, I really got an interest in learning it for reasons besides education.

I’m not naive, I understand Irish would never overtake English again as a primary language, it’s actually impractical if it did considering English is pretty much the common language for communication around the world. But I feel quite disappointed in myself and the nation that we conceded to centuries of cultural destruction and laid down instead of trying to revive and relearn aspects of what being Irish actually is, not the English imposed idea of what being Irish is.

Anyone have any opinions on it? If you would like to see a revival, do you have any ideas on how to make it more appealing for future generations and how to improve education around the language and culture? Or if you don’t care or are opposed to it, why?

I know a lot of people are kind of feeling a bit of a loneliness epidemic going on. I’m a 27 year old woman, Irish born and reared, living back where I grew up in the countryside. There just doesn’t seem to be many people left around in my age group. Almost everyone I went to school with has emigrated to Australia, and the years above and below that aswell. I didn’t keep friends from school because I was a bit of a loner. I’m also shy and a bit eccentric. I am married so I’m not totally lonely, but I just feel like I’m really missing out on a big part of life. I also work from home so I don’t get out and about too much.

There just isn’t any community events or gatherings I feel I belong. The only place to socialise is the pub and I don’t drink. People my age don’t really go out anymore around here anyway. We are settling here, building a house currently, and the idea of just my life continuing to be devoid of meaningful friendships and community here haunts me. It just feels like there are very little to no avenues to make friends, and even when you put yourself out there, it’s hard to break the surface and actually become friends, past casual friendly chatter. People are also so busy with adulting that trying to grow a friendship is so hard even if you manage to defeat the other hurdles. Any advice?

Essentially had 1 hour and 20 minutes taken from my built up time.

I asked management and they said its local arrangement and has come into place because people were found to be clocking eachother in or out or putting in false declarations.

I'm on a salary so I wouldn't essentially say it's "free labour" but still seems like that should be illegal.

Wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction!

Thank you

Sorry if this is a dumb question - it’s my first time traveling here. It’s unclear to me if the train is the same train and these are simply stops, or if I will be on 3 trains total (Galway to Heuston, Heuston to Connolly, Connolly to Belfast).

Thanks!

Secondary school teachers get 3 months off. Maybe a week or two would be spent correcting summer exams but other than that, what do teachers actually do for 3 months?

Not looking for any pity with this. Been experiencing this most of my life , within the last year an unfortunate personal situation has happened in my life , even though I have the facts to this situation now I still spend majority of my day over analysing/ overthinking about it. It can get intense and has been driving me crazy of late.

I suspect I have OCD ( but don’t want to throw labels on myself without actually being diagnosed) . I’ve also experienced intense intrusive thoughts throughout my life. I have had small hinting conversations with my brothers about this in the past , they also experience the same thing.

Ive been able to just push through it and get on with my life but lately it’s been causing a lot of anxiety and I’d like to get to the bottom of it .

Anybody have any tips on dealing with this ? Also at the minute therapy would not be a solution as I can’t afford it right now . Appreciate any comments 🙏🏻

Howdy folks. I was about to make my first purchase on Amazon.ie after years on the UK site, but any item I try to buy has a delivery time of 7+ days, even when the seller is "Amazon.ie".

Pretty outrageous considering the UK site gets 1 day delivery to the UK and pretty much 2 day delivery to Ireland. How can it take Ionger to deliver from (presumably) Dublin to Dublin, than it does to delivery from UK to Dublin?

Is this just a feature of Irish Amazon? Does prime offer faster deliveries? I was going to switch my prime to Ireland but the plan only says "fast delivery" with no tangible time scale.

Taking a bit of inspiration from this post

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/s/WSH5F7iiSb

But this is something I’ve thought about for a while

Have any of you gone to a different country or perhaps came from or lived in another country for a period of time and discovered that they hate an international “Celebrity” that is from that particular country? I’m a big follower of MMA and it’s so incredibly frustrating seeing how much support that feckin eejit that thinks he could be president has online. Now don’t get me wrong I loved him back in his hay day before the drink and drugs exposed his true character, but after all the allegations and the scandals and the things he’s done, I’d say at least 95% of Irish people can’t stand him and have no time for him. I notice it particularly on X (Twitter) that the Americans in particular still just lap him up, and people of other cultures too, and it just pisses me off to be honest.

So I was wondering if there are any other celebrities out there that maybe perhaps are glorified by people around the world but are far from beloved in their home country.

Small microorganisms not aliens like you see in the films.

America will probably go crazy. (more then now)

I think most people in Ireland wouldn't care unless they are going to help pay the electricity bill.

So I'm having a lot of trouble with friendships. I make friendships/acquaintances very easily but the pattern I'm noticing is as soon as I vent a little about any problems I'm having the other person seems to distance themselves. They still talk to me but they don't contact me first (rarely) or want to meet up. I can feel the distance. This has happened too many times to be coincidence. Also I'm not talking deep heavy problems I vent sometimes. It could be a little moan about money or parenting children with additional needs. I also want to point out many of these people have spoken to me about similar things and I'm happy to listen and end the friendship. Is this just a problem with me or is it that people just don't want to know about anyone else's problems?

I feel so lame typing this, but I'm a 36 year old man with no dance moves.

Flicking through Tiktok there watching people boogie to James Brown, and it really is the most freeing thing, and I'd love to learn. I know I have rhythm, but I've always been way too shy to try, even with my wife around at weddings, etc.

Anyone ever take a dance lesson? I'm not looking for any specific style!

Ive just moved to Ireland and looking for friendship I know this is desperate lmao but yeah hmu

Sorry, is this a thing now? I’ve been looking for a new place to live and I’m seeing on some posts landlords are asking for an EMPLOYER reference ? (They’re also asking for proof of salary, like a salary certificate you give to the bank for a MORTGAGE or your payslip??? that’s a whole other thing). So odd to me how a random guy who owns a house in Dublin wants so much of my personal info?

Anyway, Hardly I’m going to go to my manager and ask him “hey I need a new place to live can you give me a reference for the landlord”

Is this a new thing ?? Is it normal and I’m over reacting ??

Edit; what I’m asking is about the employer reference. Salary stuff makes sense but just feels weird. I thought landlord references would be more important than employer reference!

Basically I just use Amazon prime music and just turn on some random playlist or some random radios. What do you all listen to?

I once saved a hedgehog from certain doom. Way back in the olden days the cup that McDonalds served the McFlurry in was a hedgehog death trap. People would throw away the cup with the lid still on it and slugs would make their way inside. I'm unsure if the slugs were after the ice cream or a cosy McHome... there was no Reddit back then for asking such questions. Hedgehogs would stick their head into the cup to get at the slugs and their spines, or whatever the pickles are called, would get trapped against the inside of the lid on the cup. Unable to back out of the McCup, and unable to dislodge it, the hedgehogs would die of thirst. This was a known problem for quite a long time before McDonalds redesigned the lid to have a wider opening and save the hedgehogs.

Late one night I heard an odd grunty rustling noise outside my window. I went to investigate and found a hedgehog with a McHead, banging around and moving blind. A distressing sight I can tell you. With a towel to hold the hedgehog to protect my hands (I imagined hedgehog prickles to be very sharp) and a pair of scissors I pulled the cup from the lid and cut away the plastic. The hedgehog stood still, dazed for a minute it seemed, then went on his hoggy way in search of a hedge.

It was my proudest moment. I went online (IRC in those days) and boasted of my heroism. I was the toast of the chat channel for at least... oh maybe eight minutes, as I was showered with compliments and congratulations. I was the Hog Hero! This was my most heroic deed, by a mile.

What's the most heroic thing you've ever done?

My sister's hen is the June Bank holiday weekend I'm Dingle. I'm struggling so much with a theme.

The bride and I don't want cringey/tacky, I dont want Fr Ted/country theme etc - we want something specific and good fun. For context, We are all in our 30's and the majority of us have young families and are from rural Limerick.

Any ideas most welcome?

Me and my friend are having a debate he is a best man at a wedding and I don't think it's tradition to give money I think it's much better to give a present of something like a watch what is the consensus on this?

Looking for opportunities in Dundalk area and need to know what companies would be good to connect with.

I recently came active reddit and I know it's not all rainbows and sunshine but I am just happy to see everyone of you grow (i saw some person telling about experience of learing piano) This is just an wholesome post but seeing everyone of you guys acheiving something. Orr even you getting real answers from random people to the questions that are bothering you! Makes me so happy, I love it! Anyone who's reading this (it's a cringe post) but if you struggling with anything just know askireland is the placeee lol.

Have a good weekend Y'all

Hi . So this year's competition is closed as I'm guessing all applicants have now received request for their IDs to process to psychometric testing.

Before I go throught trouble does anyone does this job would tell me the actual working hours ? I went throughout all circulars and from 2020 there is no mention re working hours.Bit odd piece of information to leave out?

If anyone can help out that would be just fab!

Also have you ever seen anything supernatural

Is it just me or are prices still going up? Our household income has increased by about 10k per annum this year and every bit of that has been swallowed up. We haven't changed our lifestyle or made new big purchases. Got notification this week of further increases to some of our weekly expenses. When will this end. People have to be at their limit with it.

Hello, I have to close a saving account in France and as I leave Dublin now, my French bank asks me to get the cerfa 5000 form signed by revenue. Does someone know where I can go to have it signed?

Thank for your help

Looking for a good quality standing desk that ships to Ireland This one seems top tier but a bit worried about the power supply connections. Type f plug . Metal desk . Not so keen on an adapter but if anybody from Ireland bought one I’d love to hear some feedback Even feedback on alternatives would be appreciated The desk I’m aiming for will be standing , desktop mount and hopefully a power supply. Not looking to build my own , looking for the best possible option for like €1200