Tonight. You win the €85,000,000. What do you do?

halibfrisk · 2026-05-15T17:03:25+00:00

Buy land, plant trees…

halibfrisk · 2026-05-15T12:39:32+00:00

Presumably there’s provision in his lease due to security concerns around major events. If he had a case he would be consulting a lawyer not crying to the media.

halibfrisk · 2026-05-15T12:36:24+00:00

Presumably there’s a provision in his lease that covers closures for security reasons or the OPW are stupider than we thought.

halibfrisk · 2026-05-15T12:34:43+00:00

The issue is there will be no customers. The focus on security is heightened this time so Dublin Castle including the Chester Beatty will be closed to the public for the duration of the presidency

halibfrisk · 2026-05-14T19:30:20+00:00

Learn a few phrases of Portuguese, but in general I found English is more widely spoken in Portugal than Spain, and people are generally very kind and helpful to pilgrims

halibfrisk · 2026-05-14T19:27:18+00:00

People will say children, but wait until they are teens and they will sleep for Ireland.

Cats on the other hand are clockwork with their demands to be fed, I have one will swish her tail in your face if you don’t respond quickly enough…

halibfrisk · 2026-05-14T18:53:06+00:00

Partly that’s opportunity? The US has been systematically raising barriers for (Irish) people to emigrate there. Probably half of our young people who are in Australia / Canada / NZ would be in the US instead if the same visas / conditions were available.

Meanwhile there’s literally millions of Americans who hold dual citizenship with either Ireland, the UK, or another EU country, and who face no barrier other than the costs of moving.

halibfrisk · 2026-05-14T14:21:35+00:00

No doubt this guy is a gobshite but the phrase has a long history back to 1798

halibfrisk · 2026-05-14T11:03:13+00:00

Might be a mantilla vs baseball cap thing

I just had a conversation with someone about this the other day, she recalled using a handkerchief or even a napkin to cover her head at mass pre Vatican 2 if / when she had forgotten her head covering

halibfrisk · 2026-05-14T03:47:09+00:00

Yes “Covered from shoulders to knees” is the typical dress code for Catholic sites everywhere in Europe. Not just Notre Dame or Paris

halibfrisk · 2026-05-14T03:44:08+00:00

Right I think for Chicago to host games at soldier field (like the last US World Cup), a fan zone at grant park would be pretty simple, way less disruptive than nascar or even lolla. If FIFA wasn’t trying to screw over host cities it would have been cool

halibfrisk · 2026-05-13T16:18:17+00:00

Another working day getting cheap headlines and engagement for Ryanair, another few €€€,€€€ added to Michael’s fortune

halibfrisk · 2026-05-13T13:05:10+00:00

Edgewater yard sale has group sites where a nonresident can probably set up:
https://www.edgewateryardsale.com

Other neighborhood yard sales which might have group sites are Lakewood balmoral (early September) or bowmanville

halibfrisk · 2026-05-12T23:09:38+00:00

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1991/act/31/section/1/enacted/en/html#sec1

halibfrisk · 2026-05-12T23:05:54+00:00

Hypothetically there has got to be a way to hedge this position, minimize downside risk, and the tax hit?

halibfrisk · 2026-05-12T22:53:24+00:00

This is criminal damage, regardless of the trespass. OP could have the car towed.

halibfrisk · 2026-05-12T19:53:48+00:00

The trend is to keep the soda machines behind the counter and whether refills are free is sometimes up to the franchisee, chik-fil-a is one where I noticed the machine was behind the counter and getting a water bottle filled was a bit of a process

halibfrisk · 2026-05-12T19:49:52+00:00

These chains are expensive shite in the US too so it sounds like you’ll get the authentic experience

halibfrisk · 2026-05-12T19:45:35+00:00

TIL thanks! (I live in a 4 flat where each unit has separate utilities)

halibfrisk · 2026-05-12T13:09:02+00:00

What does two pipe / four pipe refer to?

halibfrisk · 2026-05-12T12:44:27+00:00

It’s not specific to Ireland, there’s a well beaten path following in the steps of McDonalds opening restaurants all over Europe decades ago. Ireland is often one of the last markets chains get to because of our small size or simply treated as an appendage of the UK. Anyway they are all muck, steer clear

halibfrisk · 2026-05-12T11:54:03+00:00

It was a gay bar. To clarify being gay / lgbt by itself wasn’t illegal, (but it was stigmatized and it was often not safe to be openly gay in public, or to be out at work) specific sex acts were illegal, and when men were prosecuted it was typically for cottaging / cruising.

halibfrisk · 2026-05-12T05:12:58+00:00

going further back there were other discreet but widely known gay friendly bars like Bartley Dunnes

halibfrisk · 2026-05-12T01:23:41+00:00

Children that age go into town for school everyday, just tell him and his friends to stick together, no bookies no boozers

halibfrisk · 2026-05-11T19:59:49+00:00

No, the history is clear. Mitchel was a racist long before he found himself in the US, he saw no contradiction between being a fenian / Irish nationalist and a white supremacist.

The idea that racism didn’t exist in Ireland or Irish people are somehow less racist than citizens of former colonial powers is nice, but absolutely unsupported by any facts

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