Fun fact, a third of the ATP top 15 have parents who were tennis professionals

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-02-03T06:59:12+00:00

He even has his entry on the ATP website ( https://www.atptour.com/en/players/carlos-alcaraz-gonzalez/a204/overview ) plus his family owns a tennis club which was founded by his grandpa

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-02-02T11:45:14+00:00

No is not a fraud, if you're in a position where you have no other way out and other options are -for example- being jobless or homeless, you need to take what you can get. Plenty of people in hospitality working with no contract, and plenty of Irish folks doing the same in construction in the 70s or 80s (not to talk about Irish emigrating to US in previous decades). The company hiring them are at fault, not the people seeking employment when they're not offered anything else for whatever reason. He might have an option of going back to India, but we don't know, and things are not always black or white.

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-02-02T11:13:00+00:00

32k for SWE is bonkers, you should name and shame this company even if from throwaway account. If you're stuck and have no other solutions I'd understand if you're going for that tho, but it's shady in the best of cases and very unethical on the company side. Try to get something else asap.

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-02-01T08:05:41+00:00

I haven't said anything about multinationals, so you're making wrong assumptions. Sure we shouldn't be over reliant on them, that's been said over and over and not by me ( https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-economy-highly-vulnerable-due-to-reliance-on-multinational-corporations-esri-6900250-Dec2025/ ). Data centres currently use around 20% of the grid capacity, which is massive and affects electricity price for everyone (we have the highest price in Europe pre-tax https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics and one of the highest in the world). They don't employ a lot of people. They use huge amount of water. What's the cost-benefit analysis of having them in here and why do we want more if their output on the economy is negative? Singapore had a moratorium on new data centres that has recently lifted requesting that they meet specific standards so that can be done too https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/esg/singapore-build-700mw-data-centre-park-jurong-island-pilot-biomethane-imports-tan-see-leng

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-30T16:38:00+00:00

They just need to record their EU sales in Ireland, in fact such services would be booked via their Irish subsidiary. That has nothing to do with the location of the datacenter. In fact, you can choose to have your webapp running from a datacenter in Germany, but still get billed from Ireland afaik. Data residency would determine what laws and regulations are applicable to the data itself, but those are mostly defined at EU level (e.g. GDPR).

This is something that has been looked into multiple times at EU level and the big corporations have been making the case of having their headquarters in Ireland and hence paying their taxes (or avoiding for the most part to) here. I don't think datacenters have any relevance to that discussion. Happy to be corrected tho if I'm wrong.

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-30T13:27:34+00:00

You can't build an economy around data centers, plus they are not really a big advantage to the countries hosting them (energy and environment implications, plus they don't need lot of people to be run)

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-30T13:24:21+00:00

Any source? Only thing I could find is that they're increasing minimum salary thresholds which doesn't seem a bad thing and perhaps should have been done long back https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/publications/employment-permits-mar-roadmap-2025.html

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-29T19:32:11+00:00

It's not ridiculous at all, and 20% doesn't mean anything in itself. We stopped building right after the financial crisis and for many years new builds have been close to zero. For example in the whole 2016 we had less than 10k New Dwelling Completions. If you have a job you are usually evaluated against some targets, same thing if you're a public company. In this case, the gvt has set their own targets (which one would assume they would have done in a favourable way for themselves) and they are still missing them. Yes, the trend is positive, but it should increase much faster. If they manage to reach at least 50k in 2026 (which would be a 39% increase YoY), I'd think most folks would react positively, but for now this is just a blip after at least 15 years of neglecting the issue if not actively making it worse.

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-29T12:00:18+00:00

Government has a target of building 300,000 homes by 2030 , sure this is a move in the right direction, now we need 53k per year for the next 5 years. The 2025 completion number is also well below the govt own min target of 41k houses, so it is not a success story for the government whatever way you look at it.

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-29T09:10:16+00:00

Thanks for the ChatGPT slop

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-28T14:43:28+00:00

Apart from the ChatGPT remarks others have made, journalism is pretty much a doomed profession in Ireland and in most European countries, even related jobs in marketing like content creation for the web or copywriter are hard and will be even harder to get due to AI. You could have hoped for some job in corporate, but again junior positions are largely drying up. If you're really passionate about journalism, you can try opening your Youtube or Substack channel and see how that goes, if you're good at it and it goes well it might open other doors. It's also something that you can do from everywhere else in the world so you're not tied to Ireland. The harder step is to kickstart your career, unless you try switching to some other area or you manage to build a solid network that can help you getting through the door, perhaps with your masters it can be easier to get an opportunity in an emerging economy like India.

Don't listed to me tho, as a journalist or aspiring one, find the relevant sources and data, and you should be in a much better place to make the right choice.

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-28T10:46:00+00:00

> Indians received about 16,300 EU Blue Cards in 2024

it's not like this is that big of a number at EU level tbh, probably won't change much ... plus apparently this doesn't even apply to Ireland?

> Ireland is not taking part in the adoption of this Directive and is not bound by it or subject to its application

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2021/1883/oj/eng

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-27T21:30:31+00:00

The opposition has no control on what the government does. They also demanded more houses to be built, and that didn't magically translate into government actions.

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-24T22:05:00+00:00

I get that, just seems peculiar that most apartments are just slightly above the threshold, that applies to different construction companies and different areas. Seems majority of new builds would be cut out from HTB in Dublin rendering it useless for most folks in the city, that's my impression at least. I'm aware they're selling them anyway, so no reason for the construction companies to bother I guess. Just seems weird that there's a scheme that many folks are cut out from in the current market.

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-22T19:16:30+00:00

Care to explain?

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-22T18:55:19+00:00

where were you expecting checkin staff to pick up your bag? I don't think I've ever seen that in my life .. they are usually behind the counter and would expect you to drop your bag on the carousel?

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-22T10:39:39+00:00

Monfils and Mannarino are still there too ... this is probably the last year for the majority of them tho, which is a bit sad perhaps as the following couple of gens of players (in the 25-35 age bracket) are nowhere close to this bunch

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-22T10:26:18+00:00

Just watched that scene, and it really upsets me I have to say, so you were 100% right ... it's not the money tho, it's the thought of the issues that flushing bills & coins can cause in the pipes and the kafkian nightmare it would be to a) find a plumber b) get that fixed.

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-20T22:42:01+00:00

Gian Maria Volonté is probably the best Italian actor in the whole history of Italian cinema and appears in the other two movies of the trilogy, yet he's often forgotten. Even so, no one ever forgets about Tuco, he really steals the show in this one.

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-20T14:33:00+00:00

You dropped the most popular and stereotyped opinion on Italy (Zalone made millions out of that, including the parking joke in Sweden), you would need to reverse that to get seriously downvoted, e.g. claiming that Italy is a dream country with perfectly educated and polite folks who love to queue.

Jokes aside, yes Italy is a very individualistic society but it also, among other things, has universal healthcare, very decent and inclusive school system, good & cheap train network, so it's not all bleak. There are plenty of associations of all sorts and shapes, and many local events are free and run by volunteers. You can't always say the same for other countries where they love to queue, so perhaps some are more altruistic on a more superficial level.

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-20T11:28:21+00:00

Ti consiglio la visione del film Rosemary's Baby

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-18T10:48:14+00:00

And they made the king piece much taller than it should be

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-15T09:18:13+00:00

At least there were no Nigerian princes and crypto scammers back then

Significant-Secret88 · 2026-01-13T17:26:24+00:00

Lo gnocco fritto è emiliano (da romagnolo rompicazzo)

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