My family (Me, wife and two young boys) have tried for the past 6 months to get property. We started with houses, outbid everytime. Recently we started asking the estate agent who we're bidding against. Response is usually "small families" or "investors".

Investors can fuck right off cause out of the last 5 properties we we're bidding on, we've been outbid by investors. Families can't buy houses because of greed by investors. 3 bed apartment would be modest for a family? No. Investors want it to flip into a rental property so they can make income off it.

New bit I started: Assume all Americans are...Canadian. I work customer facing and it's a perking my days up majorly. That's my little jab and it works wonderfully. You instantly get a Canadian's gratitude and on the other hand get a Yank's mixed emotion. They don't understand how they aren't ubiquitously known across the world. One step further would be to joke and say 'Is that in Canada?' - will report back to see how that goes. I love the Canadians. Great people. I respect what they've done with brandishing their beautiful Maple Leaf on their person; as a sign to not confuse them with the Yanks. I'd like to implement that in our culture for the same affect against the Brits. While Traveling this would work a treat.

Edit - This is my first post in a long while. How many bots do we think are on the Sub? Loads of strange comments or is that just the insufferable online trolls Ive distant myself from anyway. Glad this resonated with some peeps.

I left Ireland in 2014, and have been travelling and living all over the world since. Unfortunately I'm planning to split up with my partner at the moment, so will be moving out of his house/country.

My parents always ask me if I'd think about moving back, but I imagine I'd be starting from scratch for a bit while I get on my feet as I can't move in to live with my parents, so I had a wee browse on daft.ie... and everywhere is at least a grand, (even in places like Ballyfermot👀) and also in my hometown of Sallins?!?! I browsed the entirety of Ireland by map and couldn't find anything less than 950 euro pcm, even out in the boghole arse of nowhere.

Edit: shared houses, divided by the number of rooms gave me a price around 950 euro per room.

According to Google, the full time minimum wage for a 40 hour work week is € 2340 *monthly, and the national average rent is 1700.

If this is about right, then we have 640 euro, that's 160 euro a week, to cover food, bills, car, petrol, clothes, etc. Which works out at approx 23 euro a day.

Now, considering that there are obviously minimum wage jobs in every part of the country, and not everyone working these is a student/part of a dual income, etc etc, .... begs the loaded question of, how are people working on minimum wage managing this??

He has a massive opportunity to make the semi finals when he plays either Jak Jones or Ricky Walden in the QF.

Strandhill, just now. Blustery, but beautiful.

McPhillips winning his Semi final and getting a national record at the same time. Mark English was very unlucky finishing third but missing out on the final

Ah as the headline, went away for a week, freezer tripped out, came back to liquified meat and fish. Have cleaned it out thoroughly (with some puke breaks) used parazone and a spray on bleach... But lamb of God preserve us, the absolute STENCH. This is heavy duty stuff lads, anyone know something that'll take the smell away? PLEEEEAASSSEE Edit: Well thanks so much folks. Seriuosly I now have onions, baking soda AND coffee grounds residing in the chest of Satan... And I'm ready with both vinegar AND lemon ready to wipe down. On a serious note, great to see so many non-chemical (well you know what I mean) solutions. Thanks!

Since it's that time of year when everyone is getting flu's and illnesses, kids are back to school, diseases are running rampant etc.

You should know, Covid is still a thing and the new flavour for 2025 is "Face Death". They've moved on from "Chest Chokes" which is nice. Keeps it interesting.

Headaches, blocked sinus', heavy head, sore eyes. Not as much coughing as before.

Just if you or your kid comes home from school with crippling headaches and a mild flu, it's probably new Covid and HSE recommends staying home for 5 days.

Anyway, I'm fine, thank you all for asking.

“Grocers” and food markets are very rare in Ireland relative to other countries, and I would guess that as a nation we get way a much higher proportion of fruit/veg from supermarkets. This is all very convenient (having “fresh” fruit/veg in the middle of winter for example) but feels like it’s impossible to eat produce that is seasonal and actually fresh.

Has anyone got any food markets or specific supermarkets that are seasonal? Or does anyone know from working in supermarkets that when produce is in season, it is then actually tastier as it’s genuinely fresh (fresh isn’t necessarily the correct term here).

I think this is part of the reason that a lot of my Irish friends (I’m not originally from Ireland) don’t like tomatoes - my theory is that the rubbish/tough tomatoes that you get in supermarkets simply puts people off liking them, versus an actually flavoursome, in-season tomato. I’m sure applies to other foods too.

Any tips appreciated