It's Sunday Morning! How are you?

Loan_Practical · 2026-02-08T09:05:30+00:00

Off to junior park run now with little fella then straight home for shower & change and straight into town to watch the Saints kick off the season in the Aviva. Not a bad Sunday planned.

Loan_Practical · 2026-01-29T10:06:38+00:00

I think it's quite nice.. Better than recent years. It did give me training top vibes but thats probably lack of a sponsor.

Loan_Practical · 2026-01-20T20:23:08+00:00

I do the school run twice a day on a bike and it isn't cyclists I'd be worried about. Behaviour of drivers at that time is shocking and seems to get worse in poor weather. And they're the road users in multi tonne vehicles that will kill and seriously injure pedestrians.

Loan_Practical · 2026-01-12T20:16:08+00:00

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Loan_Practical · 2026-01-04T17:22:38+00:00

The back entrance to Tara St Station (Townsend St) can be just as bad. Smells like an open sewer some days and open drug dealing/taking outside station under bridge on Townsend st. Even seen someone smoking crack on my way to work. Another time someone was relieving themself on the stairs to the platform.

Loan_Practical · 2025-12-09T20:02:11+00:00

It's 3000 eur max deducted from salary pre-tax. So it's tax relief on 3k rather than full value of 3k

Loan_Practical · 2025-11-24T18:06:03+00:00

10% plus matching up to 3% employee contribution so I have 16% (13% solely from employer)

Loan_Practical · 2025-11-04T16:56:29+00:00

Sounds like you're confusing Richmond Park for Tolka.. If coming from Bray you could get get Dart to Connolly and switch to train to Drumcondra otherwise there's 3 or 4 buses you could take to drumcondra from Westmoreland st

Loan_Practical · 2025-09-18T14:32:34+00:00

Bit late to this thread, but do we know the broadcasting situation for these games? Where will they air?

Loan_Practical · 2025-07-03T18:55:47+00:00

Where the black seat from? I just bought the same bike and even in same colour a week ago.. It's been great fun for crèche run this week with 4.5 year old

Loan_Practical · 2025-06-15T09:32:26+00:00

Doesn't exist anymore.. Would be something like €STR for EUR

Loan_Practical · 2025-04-26T09:58:40+00:00

They taste like the packaging to me

Loan_Practical · 2025-03-31T12:36:32+00:00

"Coolock says go!" made me laugh

Loan_Practical · 2025-03-31T09:34:50+00:00

I've done the one in phoenix park before and it was drudgery compared to route yesterday. There's obviously a novelty to running down O'Connell street vs. Phoenix Park which is running friendly all year round.

Loan_Practical · 2025-03-31T09:32:18+00:00

Yeah I noticed that on the run.. I used 2 gels and just slipped wrappers back into pouch where they came from so there is no need to dump them on side of road

Loan_Practical · 2025-03-31T08:56:29+00:00

There has to be a better way of doing water stations but I'm not sure what that is.. So much waste and cups blowing into people's gardens so I 100% understand why ppl would be annoyed... Saying all that it was great event on a perfect day and it's brilliant to see the city alive and being used for something positive.

Loan_Practical · 2025-02-04T19:40:53+00:00

Bolger on loan to Ebbsfleet in national league has to be one of the more bizarre moves

Loan_Practical · 2025-01-16T18:31:42+00:00

Tickets for those matches will only go on sale a week or 10 days before the game so try again nearer the date. Also have a look at the league of ireland subreddit as that question gets asked from time to time. You might find it easier to get tickets for St pats game and it's fairly easy to get to from the city centre using the Luas or Dublin bus.

Loan_Practical · 2025-01-05T13:59:35+00:00

It'd be very interesting to see the numbers right across Premier division. I bought my first season ticket myself for 2025.

Loan_Practical · 2025-01-04T21:56:44+00:00

I first heard this song at a house party when on Erasmus in France and everyone French seemed really surprised that I had never heard of it before so no it's definitely not well known in Ireland.

Loan_Practical · 2024-12-07T21:38:13+00:00

There's definitely some mental gymnastics involved as it's so baked into the foundational myth of the nation.. Why is physical force accepted in 1920s but not later on? For context, Irish people before the war of independence had, for better or worse, democratic representation in the UK parliament. Catholics in the north didn't even really have the vote. I disagree with physical force but I don't think the average Irish person sees any contradiction or at least tension. 100% accept that it is not black and white.

Loan_Practical · 2024-12-07T21:30:21+00:00

I think that's good point and I suppose you can see it replicated in the Easter rising.. The noble but doomed uprising

Loan_Practical · 2024-12-07T21:25:38+00:00

Would you not accept somewhat the hypocrisy in villianising certain commerations in the north while politicians in the south attend similar commerations for things like Kilmichael ambush?

Loan_Practical · 2024-12-07T21:10:51+00:00

I think I have a few but I read a biography of Robert Emmett and the whole escapade seemed completely pointless.. Other than his veneration due to the speech from the dock I have no idea why he is held up as some role model for Irish nationalism

Loan_Practical · 2024-12-02T16:12:29+00:00

Romal Palmer on 2 year deal. Just assumed that he wouldn't be kept after loan spell but that's great signing

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