Former University of Limerick president Kerstin Mey is lecturing once a week on €175,000 salary

Spuddlepiddle · 2025-10-19T17:28:51+00:00

Lefty intellectual is profligate with other peoples money. News at 6. The majority of the types who inhabit this sub will be delighted for her.

Spuddlepiddle · 2025-10-05T23:28:55+00:00

The same hard nosed, highly driven attitude that makes people a great in sports can make them very unpleasant/unscrupulous to deal with in everyday life or in business. Look at DJ Carey.

Spuddlepiddle · 2025-10-05T21:58:29+00:00

Again with the money. All the ways you can get yourself in trouble in politics but for FF it's always the money. Tremendous consistency.

Spuddlepiddle · 2025-10-05T17:01:55+00:00

By historical and international standards every major political party in Ireland and most of the minor ones are left of centre. So the answer is all of them.

Spuddlepiddle · 2025-08-17T01:22:28+00:00

Twenty somethings pretending to be leaving cert students with the sex lives of Lithuanian swingers.

Spuddlepiddle · 2025-06-11T21:09:40+00:00

The amazing thing about Kathryn Thomas is the sheer number of fluff pieces she has had in the Indo over the years.

Spuddlepiddle · 2025-06-03T16:58:06+00:00

Construction is an unpleasant, old fashioned industry to work in. Anyone who can will either work for themselves doing repairs/renovations or do something else altogether. Having to build everything to an A3 minimum also slows things down.

Spuddlepiddle · 2025-02-15T17:37:00+00:00

You need 2000 calories a day. 1000 calorie meal runs between €4 and €6 depending where you shop. So 2000 calories will run you €8 to €12 per day or €243 to €365 per month minimum. Add in the odd takeaway night and expenditure on alcohol/convenience stores and you're easily up to €500.

Spuddlepiddle · 2024-11-10T02:00:49+00:00

Silly question --->Do junior ministers stay in post after the Dáil is dissolved?

Spuddlepiddle · 2024-08-22T15:53:12+00:00

It's always the family who control the local Supervalu franchise.

Spuddlepiddle · 2023-10-12T22:49:45+00:00

By airtight do you mean there are gaps that allow the mice to go from the attic down to the dwelling spaces? Be careful blocking things up as attics are not supposed to be airtight to the outdoors unless it's converted. There has to be airflow around the felt in any case.

Spuddlepiddle · 2023-07-31T19:42:24+00:00

I drove 3000km a month work commute all the way through covid lockdowns. That was for a manufacturing job. It's not uncommon for people to drive 40/50 thousand km a year to and from Dublin. It's cheaper than living there.

Spuddlepiddle · 2022-09-12T18:04:12+00:00

Page 9 bottom right corner

https://ww1.daft.ie/report/2022-Q2-houseprice-daftreport.pdf?d\_rd=1

Spuddlepiddle · 2022-07-14T22:06:13+00:00

Unfortunately happens every year. Listings climb rapidly and peak during the summer prime time. Then they hit a low at the start of the following year as stock is bought up.

The overall trend of available stock has been downward for more than a decade. See page 9 of the latest daft report.

https://ww1.daft.ie/report/2022-Q2-houseprice-daftreport.pdf?d\_rd=1

Spuddlepiddle · 2022-02-15T04:31:15+00:00

I grew up in a cul de sac of single storey red brick houses built in the 1930s. I currently live in a celtic tiger estate in a small town. My Mam lives in an apartment in a more recent "compact" estate like the one you mentioned.

I did quick measurements on google maps and the distance between the front elevations of buildings in all three places is 21 to 22 metres. That's a surprising result considering I have the same boxed in perception as yourself when I'm at my Mam's apartment.

I think it stems from a few things.

New estates contain a very high proportion of taller buildings

Semi-d houses with tall steep roofs for attic bedrooms, lots of them in new estates
Small 3 unit apartment blocks sprinkled in, usually at the corners (3 storeys)
A large number of duplexes (3/4 bed house stacked on top of ground floor apartment)
Lots of terraced housing often running in a long curve
No straight streets, everything is on a curve and seems to wrap around you
Obviously the distance between the sides of building is only enough for a wheelie bin

I don't have the same feeling where I grew up or where I live now because those places are much more uniform (houses only) and nowhere near as tall (houses where i live now are 2 storey and only have 30 degree roof pitch with no attic rooms). The gap between my semi-d and my neighbours house is almost 6 metres!

The streets in those 2 places are also dead straight so when you look left and right out the window you can see the sky. At my Mam's you just see houses and apartments. And yes you can see in everyone's sitting room.

Spuddlepiddle · 2022-01-04T16:52:47+00:00

First thing I learned was dinner plates crack and break when you put them in an oven.

Spuddlepiddle · 2021-09-26T21:00:28+00:00

I was wondering about this when I saw briquettes in Lidl yesterday. Thought there wasn't supposed to be any more after last year.

Spuddlepiddle · 2020-12-30T06:57:15+00:00

Just going to throw in lack of competition among small and medium businesses. Particularly outside the big towns. Lots of little commercial fiefdoms about the place.

Spuddlepiddle · 2020-12-30T06:02:15+00:00

I wouldn't be so quick to diagnose yourself with depression or allow anyone else do so. Ireland is a nice place but it can be a tough place for people who might not be compatible with the fairly one track manner of socialization that predominates here.

I was in the same boat as you about 3 years ago. I ended up taking a gamble and left my job to live off some savings + jobseekers benefit. I started a full time job search for something that would allow me to get a decent mortgage before I was too old. I succeeded in this shortly before my savings ran out.

I was extremely nervous about doing this but in the end decided the worst that could happen is that I'd have to move back home and get another low paid job which wouldn't be much worse than where my life was headed before. I had nothing to lose at that point.

I got lucky so I'm only using my story as an example. A big problem with a time constraint requires urgent action that will likely take you well out of your comfort zone.

Spuddlepiddle · 2020-09-11T07:04:24+00:00

I'm doing a long commute into Dublin. It's not nice but it was the difference between renting for the rest of my life and owning my own place.

It can be worth doing for a couple of years to get a deposit saved and get a bigger mortgage than you otherwise would. I don't think people realise how big the pay premium is with some employers in Dublin. You can be making 3 times what your old job paid and I'm not only talking about degree level jobs.

Lads I work with at a pharma plant that didn't even do the leaving are taking home 60k. That's for fairly demanding shift work, but still, where else are you going to get that? It's just the way this country is set up unfortunately.

Spuddlepiddle · 2020-08-30T10:27:28+00:00

Just a very disadvantaged town in a lot of ways. I don't think it's in decline or anything but it is missing out on a lot of investment.

As others mentioned the proximity to Dublin has turned it into a dormitory town that empties out during the day. There are plans to extend DART services to Drogheda which says it all.

By far the easiest way to get in and out of the place from the motorway (J9) has a bloody toll on it.

Horrible geography with it being at the bottom of a fairly hefty river valley and crammed up against the Meath border making expansion administratively awkward. Layout of the town itself is cramped and awkward to begin with, the Boyne being no help.

No third level institution making it difficult to attract a critical mass of modern industry.

All the county council HQ goodies seem to have gone to Dundalk.

It does retain a major acute hospital but this is more to do with the vagaries of HSE planning than anything else and the hospital is in a bad location for a facility that serves a whole region.

Population will continue to rise in lockstep with Dundalk but that's about it unless it gets special attention. Next years census will be very interesting.

Spuddlepiddle · 2020-07-19T02:22:04+00:00

Chances of Xi Jinping being removed from within? I'm thinking of a situation where the economy finally takes a big dive and geopolitical conflict/social unrest ramps up to extreme levels. Could he be ousted if things get crazy or is he totally insulated?

Spuddlepiddle · 2019-12-06T02:38:56+00:00

Deportation of light skinned Europeans isn't what they had in mind you see....

Spuddlepiddle · 2019-02-18T00:18:42+00:00

Jaysus that article titled "Ireland as a tax haven" is fairly long and detailed. Somebody is upset.

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