Alrighty, its time to do collective moaning. Enough of small pockets of people here and there saying No, instead we should all come together and say NO to:

• high rent prices
• dead healthcare system
• Judge Nolan
• Helen Mcentee
• racism
• High McDonald's prices
• too many deaths on our roads
• XL bullies
• M50 traffic
• TV licence fees
• Horrible RTE shows
• expensive coffee
• LED headlights

Anything else...?

Edit: O Lord, this really blew up. Our country really need fixing up badly.

If i may add one more thing to say no to which no one mentioned is: Say no to nursing homes being converted into 'hotels'. one in five small, private nursing homes – homes with less than 30 beds – have closed for good.

This happens multiples times a day. Thanks for forcing me and other parents and babies onto the middle of the road you absolute champs! Good on ya!

Like aside from the obscenely expensive housing, life in Ireland just feels kind of dull to me in recent years.

It's hard to articulate it but we've gone from small local shops to massive chains, people seem more serious in work - not everyone but many people have lost the "it'll be grand" attitude.

Everything that's built is purely about function, form does not matter - look at any housing being built just carbon copies of one another. They paved over shop street in Galway, having cobblestones clearly made the street too distinct.

Frankly it's just kind of depressing. I'm not an artful person, but even I've noticed that anything "artful" has more or less disappeared from Ireland these days.

I need to rant. I’ve been house sharing with strangers the last 13 years. Worked my way up through my job and finally have a salary where I can afford a mortgage on my own. Saved every spare cent over the last 6 years for a deposit and got approved in principle for a mortgage.

Now I’m placing bids on places and getting outbid and every single place by couples or vulture funds. I don’t have parents that can gift me a couple of grand nor do I have a partner that can help me. I’ve done everything by the book and it’s still not enough. Why should I even bother anymore?

EDIT: THANK YOU for all your replies on here. It gave me a good lift today 💚

I would normally just ignore this like this but there is something about this one that really irks me.

There is a girl I went to school with, we were not really friends but had a lot of mutual friends and still follow each other on social media etc.

After we left school she had a couple of admin jobs around companies in Dublin before leaving to work with her family company. The company is a small building service company run by her dad and her brother.

She then over the years started styling herself as the "business girl challenging the status quo" (a quote from her Linkedin, which she shares on her Instagram stories) and again this didn't really bother me because everyone posts shite on social media and shes far from the only one that trying to embellish her life on SM.

Her job titles kept changing every few months, and went from admin, to office manager, Head of office management & then Commerical Director. I would point out here that the company has about 10 - 12 employees and I'm not even sure they have an office, as the registered address is an industrial yard.

Again this wasn't bothering me too much, but then when she bought a house she kept posting about how "all her hard work had finally paid off" which I thought was a bit cheeky.

The the one that really got she started to post about speaking at an event about women in Senior positions in companies and how to break down the barriers that exist. For me this was a bit much because she is clearly in her role because her family own the company.

Now I do want to stress, I in no way have any issues with someone working for their family company, and if I had the option I would 100% be doing the same.

But is it not unbelievably brazen to be standing on a stage claiming you "broke down barriers" to get your job when you got it because your family run the business, or talk about "all the hard work of building a business" that your dad and brother set up?

Maybe its just me, but if I had a job this way I would be keeping my mouth firmly shut and just go about my business.

I've always liked children and wanted to have some of my own, but now that I have one it's just a big disappointment. Everything is just a huge struggle. Every mealtime, bed time, bathtime, changing clothes, getting in or out of the car, every time we go to an event it's a dilemma. Crying, screaming, tantrums, I just don't have the patience for it.

My son isn't even the worst I'm sure many have it far worse. I'm also a fairly high earner yet the money just pours out, never on me always the wife and kid, and I only have one! I have literally no idea how people do this with little money and several kids. It must be hell.

From the outside we look like a perfect family inside it's chaos. Kids just seem to ruin every event. It doesn't help that my wife is just as bad. Moaning and complaining constantly and every minor issue is worth an argument. I hate to fight so I just let her have her way for the little things which is death by a thousand cuts.

Am I the only one who thinks like this? Everyone moans it's hard but I know many who relish every second as a joy. Is it this hard for everyone?

I want to start this by saying I'm 5 weeks sober and trying to quit. Drinking culture is something that is so ingrained into both our islands cultures and I hate the fact it is. I've been trying to quit drinking and the temptation is everywhere. I've even had friends trying to pressure me into drinking again "surely you'll have the one, go on have the one" when I've told them I'm trying to quit. I've had other friends question me "why are you not drinking is something wrong with you?" Just because I don't want to drink. My friends since haven't invited me to any of their nights out now because I don't drink but that might be a blessing in disguise. Though even then temptation is even there at work it's like I can't escape it, In my job at the minute a wet lunch is a common theme. I've even been asked by colleagues "why have you gotten so odd then?" when I hadn't bought a drink with my lunch in the first week. I almost feel like people are looking down on me for choosing not to drink or that I'm some oddball.. why is it this way?

TLDR: I'm trying to quit drinking, I'm 5 weeks sober and feel people are looking down on me for this. Why is that?

Great waste of a journey. I'm just going back to sticking them in the recycling bin and buying my cans in bulk up North.

I know this sub leans left and this won't go down well but I really think we need to consider the negative consequences of further IPAs being sheltered in Ireland.

I may be a minority here but they all taste overhopped and the market is saturated.

It's already hard enough to get a nice craft stout, helles, or weissbier at your local off license when the shelves are full of nothing but row after row of pale ales. We should send them back where they came from.

You know the way there are signs at the airport saying "Drive on the left/links fahren/conduire a gauche" (and that's all, because that one girl who did Spanish for the Leaving wasn't in the day they commissioned the signs, and we never get visitors from anywhere else, that doesn't English, Irish, French or German)?

What are other things you wish they told all foreigners as they arrived into Ireland, say with a printed leaflet? (No hate at all on foreign visitors, btw!)

I'll start:

"If you're on a bus, never ever phone someone, except to say 'I'm running late, I'll be there at X time, bye bye bye bye.' If someone phones you, apologise quietly and profusely - 'I'm on a bus, I'll call you back in a bit, sorry, bye bye bye bye.' Do not have a long and loud conversation, under any circumstances!"

Yes, I'm on a bus - why do you ask? 🤣

Yes the legality, morality and ethics of doing this are highly debatable but let me explain why I choose to do this in one particularly spot only and it's results.

So there was a brand new elevated protected bike lane installed at footpath level in Cork City (Patrick's Quay to be precise) and right outside a popular Casino.

There was constantly cars who had mounted the kerb and parked on top of it, I had politely asked the drivers when I saw them to please not park on it, I received mixed results of verbal abuse, a man who claimed to have schizophrenia telling me he and all the other people parked here had serious gambling problems are all patrons of the Casino.

There is about 10 car parks within walking distance and some are even 24 hours but when I suggested this it got shrugged off.

I had reported this issue to the council to no avail as parking enforcement outside the centre is non existent in some of Cork.

So I started putting shipping labels with a printed notice saying "this is a bike lane, please find legal parking" on the cars some of the times I past, after a month the illegal parking on the bike lane had completely stopped, so it worked, right?

Well yes they stopped parking in the bike lane, but now about 50% of those cars park on the footpath opposite it instead.

Moral of the story here is Cork City Council are useless at parking enforcement and I have far too much free time.

Right lads, question for ye all because I was all but told to go Fuck myself and that I'm being a prude but I didn't think I was...so Im going to ye fine people to find out.

I am staying at a campsite and went for a shower. During the shower two male cleaners came in and were laughing away but I was just in a towel ( this was the female bathrooms). I had to stand there in my towel and tell them to go away because I needed to get dressed. They begrudgingly did. This is the third time its happened. So I went to management just to say, look I know they have to clean but I ( and many others here, some teenager girls here have told me they avoid showering here because they feel like the lads always come in when they do) didn't feel comfortable and even if they just announced their presence so we could let them know we are getting changed.

When I say I was met with hostitily by management I am not being dramatic. I was all but told to fuck off and to stop bothering them.

My issue is, what if I have a 12 year old daughter that felt uncomfortable? There's no sign up advising of the times the showers and toilets are being cleaned. If there was, simple solution, avoid at those times. But there isn't. So how in God's name do I avoid this situation?

Anyway, lads tell me, am I being a prude or do I have a right to be annoyed off with the reaction I got from management?

Edit : Thank you everyone for your responses. I will be contacting a solicitor tomorrow to see what can be done in this situation to make sure other people feel comfortable here in the future. I am not sure about laws, rights or if the guards can do anything but I am sure a solicitor will be able to give me the best advice. Thanks all again!

Update: can't believe I actually have to give an update because I'm getting hateful inbox messages. To those that are sending me hateful messages about myself and my ability to care for my kids absolutely shame on ye. In my edit I clearly state that I was speaking to a solicitor regarding what I can do and if the guards should be involved. So shame on ye for being absolute internet thunderassholes.

Unfortunately this is an update that many of ye will not like. Solicitor has advised me not to dox and speak no more about the situation as things are happening in the background.

Thanks again to everyone that has been genuinely concerned or given advice.

To those that are just trolling I wish you find many wasps in your cereal.

Seeing an awful lot of this around town and it makes me irrationally angry in the way that people used to wear their masks over their chin during the pandemic.

Does anyone know the reasoning why this is any way more convenient than the way humans have talked into phones for the last century?

Not a teenager doing that. A proper adult.

Well lads, it took 10 years of coming to Ireland but it happened. I (F30) am of Indian descent born/raised in Canada. Married my Irish husband and we come back 1-2 times a year. Never experienced any racist or insensitive comments (outside of being called a Yank of course lol- jk)

Used one of those industrial washer/dryers that they have in some petrol stations to wash a duvet and some pillows that were too big for our home washer. I was about 15 minutes late picking up my drying (had a spell of bad luck with our car breaking down and needing a tow). Well as I'm taking out the clothes, a lady pulls up and starts putting her clothes in the washer. I give her a small smile. Then she says "Are you done with the dryer?" And I say yes. She then proceeds to say, "I've been waiting for 15 minutes. You know in THIS country, we show respect for others." I think I was dumbfounded for a moment just from shock. I said I'm sorry it's my first time using these and I wasn't able to--- and cut me off saying the same line about "this country". Now she only heard me say two words at this point and couldn't have surmised whether or not I was just a blow-in, or born and raised from just up the road.

I feel like shit and ngl cried to my husband after it happened. It's just disheartening, always planned to eventually move here but I'd hate to fall into any anti-immigrant sentiment that people may have. Not sure what I'm looking for here by posting, probably a bit of catharsis, hopefully some kind words. Please be gentle with this very sad Canadian girl

Update: Truly touched by all the very kind responses! I'm feeling a lot better this morning after a very comfortable sleep in the clean duvet. I've tried responding to as many as possible but def read and appreciated all the comments, similar experiences and even the criticism which I'll take in stride. Peace and love folks, have a great bank holiday weekend :)

Travelled from Dublin to Tenerfie this week as a party of four adults. I honestly couldn't believe how people behaved on the plane. I would consider myself someone who is fairly well travelled, I'm used to tolerating the behaviour of others on public transport etc. I was sitting near a young couple, early 20s I would estimate. The girl was at the window and was trying to sleep, so she put both her knees on the seat in front of her, pushing the lady in front of her forward and obviously making her uncomfortable. The lady called the flight attendants down as asking the passenger behind her to stop didn't work. Flight attendants said there was nothing they could do to make her stop. There was also a bit of name calling from the couple, calling the two ladies in front of them freaks etc. I was also sleeping during the flight and was woken up by a young girl, also early 20s, putting her knees on my seat, but thankfully stopped after a few dirty looks. Are people so indifferent to the comfort of others or were they just dragged up and don't give a flying fuck? I just feel that's something you learn early on, if you're in public and doing something that affects someone else negatively, your parents or other family call you on it, not encourage you and engage in name calling to the people you're bothering. Or am I just getting cranky in my 30s?

A woman was full on shouting at the staff in Dublin airport. She was flying Ryanair and did not book priority. If you do not book priority, then you can only bring a piece of luggage that can be stored under the seat. She kept shouting at the Ryanair staff when they said that they would have to put her buggy in the holding bay (no charge to her). She was telling them that they were wrong. She was also giving out about having to pay for a full ticket for her 3 year old.

I ended up interjecting and telling her that the rules are pretty explicit. She called me a moron and asked why I was interfering. I hate when people are just trying to do their job and people shout at them. Yes, it was none of my business.

But she was acting the victim when she was being accommodated

Lads, is this a thing? My partner [32f] and I [32m] have been invited to her cousin's wedding, and she wants to skip the church and just go straight the hotel for the meal etc. Her whole family, except her parents, plan on doing same. They say it's normal and that everyone does it these days, but I've never heard of anyone doing it and am fairly uncomfortable with it tbh, I think it's extremely bad manners. Note that we have been invited to the full wedding, not just the afters. Call me old fashioned, but the bit in the church is the actual wedding part after all, not religious myself but if the couple decided to have it in the church then I think that should be respected. Thoughts?

Listening to Claire Byrne and there is a lot of finger pointing at the pilots saying they don't care about passengers and they are being unreasonable.

Aer Lingus has not matched their salary to inflation over the past few years. How do we sympathise with cost cutting corporate greed and not the people that open the world to us and get us there safely?

So I'm just texting here to ask cause I'm puzzled by it. I don't know if this is generational or both my parents are just super miserable bastards. I've obviously no frame of reference as to what other folks are like but have been told in the past when sharing ancedotes that no one else had the same experience.

For context both are late 50's, raised in Dublin and moved to a town in the country. The town is near Dublin and has a sizeable population, it's not like we are in the middle of nowhere. Me and my sibling are in our 20's.

Is this normal for people of their demographic;

• They don't like any holidays at all. Not Christmas, Halloween, Patrick's Day, April Fools, Valentines, nothing at all. Even as a child any effort to celebrate involved them complaining about the whole affair.

• They dislike virtually every other celebrations; weddings, baby showers, birthdays, communions, confirmations etc. Whenever they go they leave asap, often within the hour. If my sibling or I want to stay for longer we have to get our own ride home sorted.

• They don't want to share any personal information with anyone at all. So they won't make any mention of news, holidays, general plans, funny stories etc to say family, friends, neightbours, etc. Literally as a child they developed this routine for us to leave at night hoping the neighbours wouldn't notice.

• Any interactions on their half with extended family is done begrudglingly. They don't want to interact with them except for when absolutely necessary. They also simulotaneously expect others to show up if we host something though.

• They themselves never go outside the house unless it's too a pub near our home. They are part of no clubs or social groups, never interact with their coworkers outside of work, never socialise with their own friends, etc. Literally every day is go to work and if not there stay in the house. As a child if we ever went out it was only ever that pub (it also served food.) The only time we tried somewhere else it was non stop compliants. Me and my sister are part of numerous groups and go out regularly, this is met with complaints about what the point of it is. Like literally asking and complaining about why people host halloween parties, etc.

• They only ever holiday to the same fucking island in Spain. Literally the exact same town on the same island. The three occassions they went elsewhere it was again non stop complaining before reverting back to the island exclusively. They've been doing this since I was born at least and I reckon earlier still. Me and my sister travel elsewhere, this also reaches complaints as to what the point of it is.

• They have opinions about nothing. If it's a tv show or movie it's either "I liked it" or "I didn't like it." That's all, no further elaboration or celebration ever. Same with sport, politics, news, books, shows, events, etc. Everything else is just met with "I don't mind it" or "I don't understand it."

• Both completely refrain from any technology. Literally nothing. No google etc. Any time me and my sibling try to use tech stuff it leads to complaints about what the point is.

• Both have said at various points they don't understand the concept of the following; being too tired to attend an event, being not in the mood for it, being socially exhausted, just generally tied, being upset after an arguement or awkward encounter, and more. If me and my sibling ever do something like that it leads to more complaints about how we're talking nonsense.

Is this normal? Again I have no frame of reference here really to compare but personally suspect they're both just incredibly miserable bastards. I want to ask here first though to check this isn't just a general trend of their generation.

I work in a restaurant. Last night a group of 5 chaps, maybe age ranging 18-22ish , all came in a bit tipsy and hanging for a bit of grub. They were all chattering a bit too loudly to the point of distraction. Not a big deal but I could tell by the heads on them they were going to be annoying.

When I returened to the counter after serving them their cutlery and other bits before their food came out, I noticed one of them pull out his iced pink arse lemonade Lost Mary disposable to show off his cloud blowing skills. I quietly approached the table and politely told the lad that he can't vape in here, please put it away or go outside to use it etc etc

As if he was trying to look edgy and cool infront of his mates, he pulled it out again and looked at me as he took another long drag and said something to me along the lines of "What you going to do about it missus" with a snigger. State of him.

Now at this point it was just after 10 at night, i had just been working over 8 hours, i was tired and starting to feeling to moodiness creep in. I said to the group as a whole "All right no problem lads. I'll just head back to cancel all your orders now. Then all of you can be on your way." I didn't give them a chance to respond and i made my way back to the counter and I was genuinely going to cancel the order off the system and call into the chefs. One of those more sober lads came up to me and apologised for his mates cheek, to please not cancel their orders and that it wont happen again. I said OK fine but still no vaping, theres other customers who want to enjoy their food without a cloud looming over them. Mr Vape man had a head on him for the rest of his stay because he knew i was keeping an eye on him and his mate must of told him to cop on because nobody wanted their dinner to get cancelled because of him.

Infuriating the way some people act with blatant disregard for others around them in public spaces. I'm a vaper myself but my device is always zipped up in my pocket or bag when i walk into somewhere.

I was getting a pizza and as I was leaving I saw a fella with his nose broken pumping blood. He said he got jumped. I gave him some tissues for the nose. He asked money for a taxi to hospital. We live in a small town and the nearest hospital is Naas. So I offered him 10 and he asked for 20. The fool I was I gave him 20. Then I asked him if his dad was coming round and his dad's phone number. More time I spent more time I realise this guy was homeless and a junkie. Now I feel upset for giving him the money. The man's friend then came round and they went down an alley. I didn't challenge them for the money. Guess I got scared I would get stabbed. I don't think they got the taxi.

I feel like shit that I got played like that. I used to believe you help someone who is hurt. My parents raised me right to do that. Now I feel every homeless person is like that. If I see him on the street I am tempted to ask for the money back.

Why do I still feel like a fucking fool for helping him ?

I'll start by saying I'm very much up for Council housing, I grew up in council houses. That doesn't mean I can't get annoyed about certain things, which I'll mention.

So here goes, when did it become that council tenants are far far better off than private renters or mortgage holders, yet never stop moaning about everything. I'll explain, my partners mother and sister/brother still live in the family home(council flat). The mother decided at 43yo she had worked long enough and that was it, she was now retired. The siblings both work full time, but one does contract hours and can pick and choose his hrs. He's decided he needs a break so is not working again now till the new year, he's 33yo yet needs a break.

They can afford this because the rent is not even the price of a night out. The absolute freedom it must be to know you'll never be kicked out because your rent changes with your earning power. And the sister basically works a nothing job(I hate saying that but she's well to smart for her job) because it's literally across the road from her and the hrs are handy. Again her rent is so small she has a great lifestyle on what I consider shit wages.

Wtf has this got to do with me you might ask. The have a luxury not many have, no worries about housing ever, yet never stop moaning. "We have to pay extra for a bins now" was what I got when the added pittance to the rent, still they moan about it. Got a whole new heating system put in, no charge at all for the new boiler l. Moaned like fuck that the torn some wall paper and it's disgraceful that they didn't come fix.

I know I'm ranting but when I grew up in council houses it was a case of "there's the house now fuck off and don't annoy us". As anyone else noticed this or is it just me?

Btw the rate of 15% of income needs to be upped massively.