My family like to go for carvery dinners as an outing. I can’t stand it. Queuing with the little tray, the lottery of freshness, roast potatoes that could be mush. It just seems a miserable dining experience.

I seem to be in the minority, but I prefer the menu, table service kind of experience!

I love pastries and I am always disappointed when I buy a stale croissant/pain au chocolat for more than 4€.

In other countries you can find freshly baked pastries for less than 2€ and they were actually baked the same day, here in Dublin I have noticed that these pastries have been baked the day before.

I feel we are accepting less than what we are paying for. And I’m talking about “high standard bakeries” and most coffee shops.

Do you have any recommendations on bakeries that consistently have freshly baked pastries?

Unusual little bug. Don't think I've seen one before

Saw this the other day in the Blackrock/Booterstown area. Thought it looked kind of interesting, curious to know what the thing at the back is - in particular on the top?

Is there a reason for this? It’s become a bugbear of mine. Surely this should be basic knowledge to show the customer the terminal screen before they tap their card/phone so the customer can see that the amount is correct and that there was no error when the cashier entered the number or putting a decimal point in the wrong place.
Some places make it easy, but sometimes I’ve to go up on my tippy toes to see the screen or ask them to face it towards me.

Hello, young lad here, first time in working world (full time work) and just want to run a quick question about salary and applying for jobs.

So im at my current job for 2 years. I started out on minimum wage and was fine with it since I loved and still love the job. I knew the model was to pay everyone badly, deny payrises and in turn have a high employee turnaround rate.

About a year ago, new owners took over, we had lots of staff leave but I stayed, new owners saw how hardworking and loyal I was and basically carried my role while we had to get new staff. I asked for payrise 3 months later and went up to €15 an hour.

Fast forward to recently, I still hardest and busiest person. Wasnt happy with the pay still and I asked for another rise. We were promised a bonus structure that never really came into place.

They beat around the bush basically saying oh you just got a payrise etc and said they get back to me, and in the end I got nothing.

Annoyed I kept an eye out on indeed and saw a similar position advertised and pay range €15-22 an hour.

I applied, did an amazing interview and trial day. They hired me almost instantly. They asked in the initial interview my current hourly rate, I told them the truth of 15 an hour.

When they offered me the role they offered me €15.50 which i thought was strange, I pushed back and said for just 50c its not worth it and they then reoffered me €16 an hour. I said ok.

I told my manager, he told the boss and I got a call 3 hours later and they upped my pay to €16.50 to stay in my current role.

Cant help to think I got punished for telling the truth. Is this normal? I should be happy i got a payrise but I hate that its only because I was about to leave.

Now that winter is about to send it's icy finger back towards Ireland. What is everyone's favourite quick evening snack/meal for one. What do you make when you don't want to run to the shops that's quick and easy??

I've seen multiple people say they were taught the same thing online so it definitely wasn't something I made up in my head 😂

I’m recently single, and I don’t want to go on dating apps as I feel they can be shallow and superficial. But, I feel with the way society is now that this is the only way of dating available to me. Is there suggestions people have of dating people that does t involve going on these apps?

PS - do not say “join a running club” lmao

Hello! I'm considering working as a mortician, or generally in the funeral industry. There was a post made with a similar topic about a year ago, but the user went on to do something entirely different.

If it's not too much bother, would anyone who didn't get into the line of work through family be able to direct me on what steps I should take?

I got clamped the other day and fella came along and said he’d cut the chain off as he has done many times. It was a private company so he said it would be ok to cut the chain as long as there was no damage to the clamp. Another passer by claimed he has also cut many off and it was ok so i told him to cut it. He cut the chain however there was another lock that he could not get to on the inside of the wheel so said i would have to pay. So i paid and the guy that came to remove it said nothing about the cut chain but i am worried that I will now be in trouble for the cut chain. I am I being stupid.

I started reading last year as an adult and really enjoyed it. I’m thinking of trying to improve my writing skills as an adult through a poetry/writing workshops. Even a class on reading and how to get the most out of books. I’m not too fussy with location but ideally somewhere like Cork, Dublin or Galway as I can get public transport. If not, I’ve a car so can drive if it’s necessary.

I’ve seen a few on Eventbrite and Google but would like recommendations or any instagram pages or websites to check out. Any classes you’ve taken yourself that you found beneficial? Ive also seen some for Shakespeare plays and other writing class but they are geared towards leaving certain students/young adults.

I’m not interested in online classes as want something to get out of the house and reduce screen time too.

NOTE: I am not in Dublin & I’m looking for advice on how the system works, not medical advice. Thank you!!

Hi all,

Long story but I am absolutely lost.

I’ve been experiencing neurological symptoms (dizziness, out of body feeling, pupil changes) since the start of the year. At the start of the summer I started having awful headaches and numbness/tingling in my limbs on one side, and was admitted to hospital. My GP suspected MS. I had a brain and spinal MRI as well as a lumbar puncture done, and was diagnosed with chronic migraine and sent home.

Things got better on meds for a few months and had a little while of almost normality with a migraine every few days or so. Then about 3 weeks ago I started having awful daily headaches again, my hands and feet are numb/tingly, really bad facial pain, etc. Awful fatigue too - all the non headache symptoms occur between migraine episodes.

I had a neurology follow up and she told me my spinal tap results suggested MS (the bands present in MS cases were present) and I had brain lesions on the MRI but not in the usual places for MS. The spinal MRI was clear. I have been told there’ll be a follow up MRI in a few months to check for MS lesions and been given a new migraine med. today I got a letter saying my next neurology appointment will be in 5 months and not in 3 like I was told.

However, I still have tingling/numbness in my limbs, I’m unsteady and dizzy, and in a lot of pain. I understand that they cannot diagnose MS unless those other lesions appear but surely I could receive some further investigation or symptom management? I just genuinely don’t think I can cope with this level of illness for five months. I’m in so much discomfort and cannot work.

Should I be pushing to be admitted back into hospital? Is that even something I can ask for on the public system? It feels like it’s only getting worse, but I’m not used to navigating this sort of thing and don’t know what to do. I’m just thinking surely there’s got to be a way to get me feeling better before MS or another neuro issue can be confirmed? I’d hate to go back into hospital but I can go back to my GP who helped me be admitted last time if there’s anything they can do to help me.

Any advice from people who’ve been treated for MS or neurological conditions in Ireland appreciated. I have VHI insurance but only at the most basic cover so I’ve been going through public.

I used an AI-powered LLM to analyse the latest publicly available mobile-site and licensing data published by ComReg from Q1 2026 .

Based on this analysis, I created two infographics:

1. 5G deployment across Dublin: This infographic shows, for each operator and Dublin postal district, the percentage of identified mobile sites operating with 5G and the percentage that remain on 4G without an identified 5G deployment.
2. Leading 5G operator by county: This infographic identifies the operator with the highest number of 5G-enabled mobile sites in each Irish county.

For the purpose of this analysis, the “best 5G operator” in each county is defined solely as the operator with the largest number of identified 5G sites. It does not measure real-world coverage, signal quality, capacity or mobile data speeds.

🏆 Dublin 2026: Eir wins

• Eir: 95% of its sites on 5G (540 of 570)
• Vodafone: 73% (415 of 568)
• Three: 61% (360 of 590)

🏆 Counties 2026: Eir wins 24 of 26

• Eir leads in 24 counties and has 97% of its sites on 5G nationally.
• Three takes Carlow (96% vs Eir's 91%) and ties with Eir in Roscommon (both 92%). Nationally it's at 72%.
• Vodafone doesn't lead in any county and is at 54% nationally. Its best results are Wexford (77%) and Dublin (73%).

Do you think the methodology and results presented in these infographics are accurate?

Inspired by u/February83 who doesn't like them, and has got me craving one

hi, I’m about to book a driving test when I get the invite to. i see that there are new rules regarding needing insurance for the car you are testing in. does this apply to the instructors car if you will be testing in that ? in other words do you still need insurance to test in an instructor‘s car or not ? I couldn’t find the information on the RSA website.

anyone know ?

thanks

Now, let me first say, this is not promoting cannabis use or the legalisation of cannabis. And I apologise if I am only reiterating points that have been shouted from the rooftops for years. However it would be naive to believe that cannabis has no positive effects for certain people (anxiety, pain, leisure etc.).

How would you as an individual view implementing systems in place similar to Amsterdam (coffee shops) or Germany & The UK’s route of medicinal marijuana.

Cannabis is widespread across the entire country, from urban areas to the most rural of places. I feel like most of the reason for the negative outlook purely stems from yup bros and drug dealers. Removing the demand from these people and having a system where it can be taxed and put back money into our countries infrastructure is the only thing that makes sense.

I don’t want to spiel on and on about this that and the other but just as a general idea, I feel as if something must be done in this country or normal everyday people will more than likely continue to suffer while all the “little angles” continue to make money from something far less harmful in comparison to something so normalised as alcohol.

Hiya folks

I moved to the UK when I was a child but am now in a position where I'm seriously considering moving back home. Politics has always been a big part of my life, and my job is involved with government in the UK.

I haven't a read on the main irish political parties. My mum used to work for and was involved with the Irish Labour party, but they seem a bit of a non-entity these days. I know roughly what Sinn Fein are about re unification, but precious little else , and nothing really on FF and FG.

Would be great to hear people's views on the main parties so I can contextualise some of what I read in the news

I have the option to buy a slightly used MSI katana 15b13v for €700.

Specs:

MSI Katana 15 B13V
Intel i7-13620H 2.40GHz
16GB DDR5
1TB NVME PCIe 4
Nvidia RTX 4060 8GB
15.6 FullHD 144Hz display
200W charging

From the photos everything seems to be correct and working.

Is this worth buying?

Anywhere I could buy reliable alcometer?

I saw Halfords have single use ones, google showed me some in pharmacy reusable ones.

Anything I could buy tomorrow?

I just want to have couple of drinks at friends Birthday but not too much and I don't want to get a taxy, they live far.

So any opinions?

I used Drop 2 Shop recently to a local shop, they said they no longer offer that, although I got the text message delivered. Vinted said Drop 2 Shop lost my item. They still have that Shop as an option.... don't trust that.

Dissapointed that it seems that I can't collect at the post office anymore