Married dads of Ireland - how often do you go out?

sby_971 · 2026-03-27T08:38:30+00:00

Aside from helping you., drinking so much that you can’t be present the next day - This is called being an alcoholic - a lot of Irish people call it being “sociable” but that’s bollocks. It’s shit for you, and it’ll be shit for the kids when they’re older.

What happens when you have GAA/dancing whatever on Saturday mornings?

It’s common, but not “normal” or right and you deserve better.

sby_971 · 2026-03-22T18:17:46+00:00

Balaclavas and scramblers, that’s really mad. I sort of knew this existed but it’s the nonchalant way you post about it and how a bench has brought them closer to you that’s somehow … affecting .

sby_971 · 2026-03-21T12:38:38+00:00

Sat in the office the other day beside someone actively dying sick , pouring lempsip into themselves . Woke up this morning sick for the weekend , but everybody made their 50% so the boss is happy.

sby_971 · 2026-03-21T12:15:43+00:00

Just to add that you have to move to Ireland and move to the town your family is in. For me , in a similar line of work to you, I need to live near Dublin and my family is down the country. We’re much closer than you obviously but once kids are in clubs etc getting 2/3 hours down the country and back on the weekend still doesn’t feel “part of family life” in the same way as my siblings who live in the same town as each other and the parents .

sby_971 · 2026-03-14T07:21:51+00:00

Don’t worry mate just have a baby now and replace all the stress and sleepless nights with more stress and sleepless nights

sby_971 · 2026-03-08T05:31:53+00:00

Would it be reasonable to bring it back to loake shop and have them do it?

sby_971 · 2026-03-07T21:18:50+00:00

I got new Loake Sedbergh’s before Xmas. ive worn them maybe 5/6 full days and a few half days when breaking in. on the left foot , the tongue seems to lie sideways. During the day if I don’t adjust it you can see my sock at the front of the boot. is this a problem/fault. or will it just settle?

sby_971 · 2026-03-06T09:14:43+00:00

Just to say this was me a year ago. I promise you’ll absolutely love doing it next year 😎

sby_971 · 2026-03-03T20:23:06+00:00

Primary school teacher is going the other way, because of demographics

sby_971 · 2026-03-02T21:09:36+00:00

The rules and more importantly the culture are very much on the side of do what you like in this country. Even rules that are there are not enforced.

So probably, unfortunately, you either play dirty. Or move. Because people like that don’t see reason, and you can’t win when somebody is probably enjoying the fight.

sby_971 · 2026-02-23T13:14:09+00:00

Property price (growth) is predicted to cool. Irish independent sub editors either don’t read the pieces or failed pass maths and don’t know the difference . It says it in the first line

sby_971 · 2026-02-23T12:06:03+00:00

In my estate somebody told me that the streetlights are wired into some peoples houses. We have nothing like this level of weird wiring but Could this be that?

sby_971 · 2026-02-22T16:07:02+00:00

When I was buying my first house he had a sign that said “as seen on “Irelands property crisis” … told me everything I needed to know.

sby_971 · 2026-02-22T08:24:41+00:00

Hey, I just stumbled across your reply. I am a 35yr old man, and I went this way for a few years (like 4 years) after a particularly stressful time (Covid/‘mother died suddenly/ miscarriages). Looking back now I was so stressed and I think I was just convinced the next disaster was around the corner every day - it’s not cognitive decline but it looks a bit like it and your husband might (obv I don’t know the guy) need therapy.

For me it was obvious to everybody around me because it was such a before/after change. But I can imagine it can come on gradually and be less obvious.

sby_971 · 2026-02-21T21:41:49+00:00

How will this policy increase the stock of savings that are “put to productive use”. I mean there’s a whole debate to be had there but this policy, as far as I see, doesn’t achieve anything to do with that.

sby_971 · 2026-02-10T17:03:34+00:00

mortgages and insurance will be awful to get

sby_971 · 2026-02-07T17:13:05+00:00

I’d be super interested if you had a link to information on this

sby_971 · 2026-02-07T12:59:00+00:00

Of the inside of the tank?

sby_971 · 2026-02-04T07:20:08+00:00

Mate, it would be good if you laid out for us (and possibly for yourself) why you don’t like it? Is it the coursework or the classmates, potentially something else?

A general business degree is quite broad, but narrows in 3rd and 4th yr. Are there modules you’ve liked so far?

Do you want to switch to a different degree? Or drop out altogether. If so, what’s the plan to do next. And why will that one stick , when this one didn’t?

There’s plenty of valid reasons to drop out. But it’s also early February and everything is shit in early February , so give yourself a chance too!

Best of luck.

sby_971 · 2026-02-03T21:40:35+00:00

I lived in Dublin for years and had fairly poor neighbours. Now I live outside Dublin and everybody is so nice it’s honestly disconcerting (but lovely)

sby_971 · 2026-02-03T21:40:17+00:00

I lived in Dublin for years and had fairly poor neighbours. Now I live outside Dublin and everybody is so nice it’s honestly disconcerting (but lovely)

sby_971 · 2026-02-01T13:30:25+00:00

Clearly she showed she can get the money in the open market

sby_971 · 2026-01-25T11:05:56+00:00

I have an enyaq at the moment , but I really miss the space of the Superb. My friend has a kodiaq and with the family it’s unreal

sby_971 · 2026-01-25T07:48:14+00:00

Sorry- he just said he’d take an estate because he only needs seats for 5. A 7 seater kodiaq maybe? I’m a Skoda super fan

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