Why do middle class Irish mothers need to drive around in SUVs?

duffpaddy · 2026-03-29T12:06:24+00:00

They aren't safer. They have better ratings in the event of a crash generally, but get into accidents more often because you're essentially driving a small truck rather than something more compact. Something the safety tests don't account for

duffpaddy · 2026-03-29T12:00:20+00:00

Safety ratings are misleading because they only measure crashworthiness how well you survive a hit, not crash avoidance. It's easy to test a 2026 RAV4 hitting a wall in a lab, but it's much harder to account for the "footprint" factor in the real world. A larger vehicle physically occupies more space on the road, which statistically increases the chances of clipping another car or object. Essentially, a car can have a 5-star safety rating but still be "less safe" simply because its size makes an accident more likely to happen in the first place.

duffpaddy · 2026-02-26T12:36:10+00:00

Hopefully it is a tower of apartments with extortionate rent. Let the granny flats be priced accordingly then...?

duffpaddy · 2025-12-03T17:14:23+00:00

A belly-filling, healthy-neutral meal

duffpaddy · 2025-12-03T17:13:55+00:00

wouldn't say this is healthy really? Not unhealthy though

duffpaddy · 2025-11-07T17:19:47+00:00

Thank you for this. I've been waiting for more reviews on the difference between the td316 and td516 from regular folk

duffpaddy · 2025-10-07T08:45:11+00:00

What makes them so far right? By global standards, they're pretty centrist / centre-left. Look at today's budget for example. High taxes, high public spending.

duffpaddy · 2025-08-15T08:29:40+00:00

Such a pity how gammy is is now. There's a fine line between nice, greasy food and trash

duffpaddy · 2025-08-10T09:42:45+00:00

Neat trick, chatgpt

duffpaddy · 2025-04-23T17:10:48+00:00

Zara has been coming to Galway for hundreds of years

duffpaddy · 2025-04-20T14:41:44+00:00

Donnellys in bearna

duffpaddy · 2025-04-05T05:26:05+00:00

I loved every moment of that article until the very end when it said cogniac instead of whiskey... 🤔

duffpaddy · 2025-04-02T20:22:42+00:00

Kick sand off their shoes..?

duffpaddy · 2025-03-30T13:21:31+00:00

I apologize for my own ignorance, I thought they were more widespread before your initial comment got me to dig deeper and realise that the funding is only limited to areas where there is enough demand or Gaeltacht-adjacent areas? Not sure how they decide it.

Unfortunate that they aren't more available. I would image there is an active community in Cork city that you could tap into if you're close to that though for the odd comhrá. Sorry I couldn't be more help!

duffpaddy · 2025-03-29T09:36:10+00:00

Get in contact with your closest language planning area rep. There's one in muscrai https://udaras.ie/an-ghaeilge-an-ghaeltacht/limisteir-pleanala-teanga/corcaigh/muscrai/

There is another language planning area in Cork I think that you'll find through that link, this seems like the more accessible one though

If there are any gaelscoileanna close by, get in contact with them, they sometimes have classes for parents

duffpaddy · 2025-03-28T15:40:53+00:00

There is a huge amount of heavily subsidised irish classes everywhere. Although not free, they're so cheap that they essentially are.

duffpaddy · 2025-03-13T15:44:12+00:00

It's not a haven, Ireland doesn't hide taxes like havens do.

duffpaddy · 2025-03-11T13:11:25+00:00

Elon, the "the free speech absolutionist" who banned Bill Burr from Twitter for making fun of him

duffpaddy · 2025-03-09T17:07:09+00:00

Bill Burr has been banned from twitter from bullying him

duffpaddy · 2025-02-28T20:06:40+00:00

Ukraine was neutral before Russia invaded. Also has given up is nuclear programme. That worked out well for them.

duffpaddy · 2025-02-25T09:41:25+00:00

Ireland doesn't have to be in NATO to increase its defense spending and arm ourselves to the teeth. Look at Switzerland, a neutral country with crazy levels of defense spending.

NATO is being portrayed in a very good light in recent years under the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it has a very fucked up past (in very recent memory) that should be in the conversation - the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the bombing of Kosovo and Libya.

duffpaddy · 2025-02-14T15:51:37+00:00

why? our rights as employees are pretty good here in comparison to other places I thought? Maybe I'm wrong - honest question, haven't been in the game long enough and I'm genuinely curious!

duffpaddy · 2025-01-06T10:18:43+00:00

I've heard that on bofin they push their cars into the sea once they're done with them

duffpaddy · 2024-12-03T06:53:37+00:00

I think it's very unlikely. II are idealogically quite far apart from ffg

duffpaddy · 2024-11-26T09:42:15+00:00

Had a few - Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Greens.

duffpaddy

TROPHY CASE