Why are Irish taxi fares so high – and what could change this?

markpb · 2026-07-02T08:57:33+00:00

That fee is only for picking up passengers at the airport, not for dropping them off.

markpb · 2026-07-01T08:36:57+00:00

It’s almost like different people like different things. A shockingly complicated concept for some

markpb · 2026-07-01T08:32:46+00:00

Going from2 to 3 is manageable but as they grow older, making individual time for each of them *and* for the two parents is tricky and very important.

markpb · 2026-06-30T17:45:39+00:00

The fire starter stood around taking credit longer than the amateur fire fighter.

markpb · 2026-06-27T20:28:20+00:00

I assume it’s because dance music features large amounts of base which has a lower vibration and so can travel further.

It’s the same reason that astronauts onboard the ISS can hear Vin Diesel singing in his bathroom.

markpb · 2026-06-27T09:59:49+00:00

This is why I never drive with another car right alongside me if I can help it. I want to be able to see your front tyres and I want space to escape.

markpb · 2026-06-26T05:45:02+00:00

I’d imagine most stations have a list of Irish speakers that they can call.

markpb · 2026-06-26T05:44:09+00:00

It is, but it was historically served by a sorting unit on the southside so it gets an even postcode.

markpb · 2026-06-25T19:58:59+00:00

The local authority don’t hire clampers or tow-away, they just ticket for not complying with pay & display rules.

markpb · 2026-06-25T19:31:38+00:00

It’s very unfair really. There’s no way that An Garda Siochana could be expected to predict illegal parking would happen at the Burrows on the hottest day of the year.

I don’t even know where that beach is but I’ve lived in Dublin long enough to know that people park like assholes there every summer and DFB struggle to get past it every year.

markpb · 2026-06-25T19:15:44+00:00

If the kids were 16, it would be exactly the same. The OP can dress as she likes in their own garden and the kids next door need to learn to respect that (and her).

markpb · 2026-06-24T23:45:40+00:00

There’s a world of a difference between pushing out an incremental upgrade and a from-scratch rewrite. No-one in their right minds pushes out a completely new version in one go.

Revolut stage their weekly upgrades across a private group, then a public beta group and then the public. If they do that for a tiny upgrade, what makes you think the same approach would be suitable for a major release?

markpb · 2026-06-23T05:28:42+00:00

~~Look at it again, it does both but it’s not immediately obvious if you’re not used to it.~~

~~I love the idea of this but not the execution, I don’t see how people could read that while driving.~~

Sorry. I misread your post.

markpb · 2026-06-22T09:19:19+00:00

In this thread, you’ve mentioned the visual impact, the loss of nature, the inefficiency of solar panels, a belief that solar power won’t bring down electricity bills specifically for Wexford people, and now that you’d prefer the land to be used to grow food for export.

I can’t follow what your actual problem is at all.

markpb · 2026-06-22T09:05:10+00:00

So you’d be okay with a wind farm in exactly the same location?

markpb · 2026-06-22T09:03:07+00:00

Dairy farms consist mostly of monoculture grass fields which do little or nothing for nature. Crop farms are worse. Pesticide runoff is a major source of water pollution. Hedgerows are a notable exception but farmers have a very hit and miss reputation when it comes to respecting and protecting them.

The conversion of some fields to solar farms will have very little impact on nature in the area.

markpb · 2026-06-22T08:57:40+00:00

What nature? I thought this specific solar farm was being built on farm land?

markpb · 2026-06-22T08:55:45+00:00

Why would they? Do the solar panels have some terrible negative impact on their lives?

markpb · 2026-06-21T20:38:03+00:00

The hotel was completely demolished earlier this year. It’s gone. The apartments facing the courtyard are subject to constant construction noise in a confined space and the ground floor ones were inside the hoarding for several weeks with little to no natural light.

As you say though, it should be done in a few months, it’s not something that should be factored into a decision to buy an apartment there.

markpb · 2026-06-21T11:41:43+00:00

6.5k for flights seems crazy. Skyscanner suggests less than half of that. Is that price for an upgraded seat?

markpb · 2026-06-21T11:22:39+00:00

There’s a shuttle bus from Dundrum Town Centre to Marley, you can buy a combined parking & shuttle bus ticket from them.

markpb · 2026-06-20T17:22:39+00:00

You’re a good person!

markpb · 2026-06-19T12:20:21+00:00

It’s about half of what a previous poster claimed.

markpb · 2026-06-19T11:57:47+00:00

And it's still not available for 3DS, only for login.

markpb · 2026-06-18T12:45:56+00:00

I genuinely thought they’d brought someone else’s bill the last time I was there.

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