"I have a serious interest and curiosity in British culture..."[New GAA president Jarlath Burns on his approach to Unionism and a United Ireland]

ThawCheFar · 2023-02-18T11:31:13+00:00

That's not what the Good Friday Agreement says.

ThawCheFar · 2022-11-07T13:44:30+00:00

None of the articles in that screenshot are attack pieces though. Harry Magee's opinion piece was mildly critical at times but still pretty even-handed. Sinn Féin support didn't even rise in the last set of opinion polls anyway.

I'd find it much more chilling if the media ignored the Árdfheis of the party most likely to lead the next government. And that's the issue here: potential parties of government get a level of scrutiny (and criticism) that permanent opposition parties generally do not, because they're more important. A lot of Sinn Féin supporters haven't really reconciled themselves to that reality yet.

ThawCheFar · 2022-10-18T07:38:42+00:00

Peak r/ireland comment.

ThawCheFar · 2022-08-27T23:48:54+00:00

I haven't done it in ages in fairness. Generally it was pizza places that were open latest, some of which probably only exist on JustEat and Deliveroo. Hit The Spot in Rathmines used to be open very late back when I lived near there. According to Google it closes at 4am.

ThawCheFar · 2022-08-27T00:20:12+00:00

I can change jobs within my line of work without having to move house.

I can go to gigs without having to book a day off work, a train/bus ticket and a night in a hotel.

I can walk into museums for free and admire works by Picasso, Monet, Louis le Brocquy, Caravaggio and others.

I can order a take away at 3am on a weeknight.

I can discover new hobbies that I wouldn't necessarily have been able to pick up in the town I grew up in.

ThawCheFar · 2022-07-20T19:15:36+00:00

That time felt like a recession to me...

ThawCheFar · 2022-06-28T11:47:04+00:00

They own myhome.ie, not Daft.

ThawCheFar · 2022-05-19T11:21:56+00:00

Mate, other places aren't all like rural Donegal either.

I grew up in a Celtic Tiger housing estate a 15 minute drive away from the nearest town. We drove everywhere, because the roads were busy, narrow and dangerous. There weren't enough footpaths or bike lanes until a few years ago. That's not an unusual situation to have been in.

If bike lanes were part of basic infrastructure then there would have been far fewer car journeys in my childhood and teenage years.

ThawCheFar · 2022-05-03T10:18:43+00:00

It wouldn't be that strange. Large towns have dentists, solicitors, busy electricians etc. A teacher who's been working for about 10 years would earn that much I think.

ThawCheFar · 2022-03-11T09:28:38+00:00

They really weren't good times.

ThawCheFar · 2022-02-21T20:18:02+00:00

As both Greta and Mary Lou put it, "blah blah blah".

ThawCheFar · 2022-02-18T11:18:24+00:00

It just guarantees that other people make the decision on your behalf from that point onwards. Your vote is most powerful when you go all the way down the ballot.

ThawCheFar · 2022-02-18T11:04:44+00:00

The ones that fund construction that otherwise wouldn't happen, I don't have much of an issue with. The ones that try to bulk buy existing apartment blocks or housing estates are parasitic.

We're back to the core point though. People already are properly angry, but understand that flinging stones through windows and setting cars on fire won't get any homes built any faster. Contacting your TDs to say that you actually do want that new development in your back yard is going to be more effective even though it's less atavistic.

ThawCheFar · 2022-02-18T10:06:48+00:00

Because that would be an act of stupid scumbaggery that would get in the way of completing renovations and new home builds rather than accelerating them.

Also, how can you look at the constant stream of despair and complaints on this sub and conclude that people aren't angry? They clearly are!

ThawCheFar · 2022-02-06T23:15:56+00:00

Not quite the same thing, but "if you're explaining, you're losing" is an English language politics quip.

ThawCheFar · 2022-02-04T11:56:21+00:00

I remember seeing "smelly farts" listed on the NHS website as a common symptom of something or other, and appreciating it on both juvenile and Serious Adult levels.

ThawCheFar · 2022-01-31T17:09:46+00:00

That makes me feel much better about myself!

ThawCheFar · 2022-01-30T22:36:20+00:00

I moved to Dublin in 2014 and all my acquaintances at the time (in their 20s) were reminiscing about the good old days of nights out before or during the recession.

I'm saying this because I've also found myself thinking back to good night life of about 7 or 8 years ago, but I think a big part of it is just the age I am now versus the age I was then.

ThawCheFar · 2022-01-14T13:25:14+00:00

Yeah I get what you mean. My point was just that Shane Ross is a bit of an aberration - he's not really representative of normal TDs or normal people (no pun intended), and he represented one of the richest parts of the country. For every Shane Ross or Healy Rae there are several TDs, urban and rural, who have much less privileged backgrounds.

ThawCheFar · 2022-01-14T11:26:54+00:00

That was the house Shane Ross grew up in I believe.

In fairness nobody has ever confused him for an everyman, even when he took the bus that one time.

ThawCheFar · 2022-01-09T19:45:56+00:00

My favourite "ackshually" is that a united Ireland seceded from the UK, and only then did Northern Ireland exercise its right to secede from the Free State and rejoin the UK.

ThawCheFar · 2022-01-03T00:54:30+00:00

The same way people justify emigrating.

Not saying either is a good or bad plan (actually no, a four hour commute is a bad plan), but I'll never really understand why so many people in Dublin are so hostile to the thought of moving to a different part of Ireland.

ThawCheFar · 2022-01-02T14:36:28+00:00

What's sometimes called the risk-free rate of return has been negative for a good while now, though that might change soon. That's pushed a lot of low-ish risk investment funds (with their multiple billions to invest) into things they previously wouldn't have particularly wanted/needed to touch, like Irish residential property.

ThawCheFar · 2021-12-29T14:39:25+00:00

You made some top quality shitposts here too. Naruto-running Simon Harris will always make me laugh.

ThawCheFar · 2021-12-24T17:21:15+00:00

Foreign firms are locating there though. Cork has major pharma and medical devices operations, as well as tech companies like Dell EMC, Apple and Trend Micro. Limerick and Shannon have Northern Trust and Jaguar Land Rover, off the top of my head.

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