The Irish

Here’s inside one of Dublin’s new legal bedsits

You can’t open the bathroom door without hitting the bed.

Smaller than a disabled car park space. For €1,300 a month.https://t.co/VSlyiXkdPd pic.twitter.com/sFFfrWFSKe

— Paul O'Donoghue (@paulodonoghue93) February 5, 2020

“As you can see, a nice, compact studio,” said the estate agent..

the O'Donoghue piece in the Murdoch rag is paywalled though the pic and brief summary gives you most of the narrative.

Yeah housing is fucking awful in Dublin. The journal used to run a feature with the worst listings on daft.ie every month.

first time I saw bed sized rooms like that was in London in the 90's. Straight faced estate agent showing me a ground floor bedsit the size of a bed what for you'd pay for a 3 bedroom house in the north. And this was Old Kent Road - so I went to sub Monopoly board areas like Plumstead/Woolwich thinking it might be cheaper and guess what.. it wasn't. Maybe should have gone further SE like Bexleyheath or Erith!

When we lived in London we paid basically nothing for our rent comparatively, but the flat had no front door separating it from the other flats, and the shower was in the bedroom.

that seems an alright standard finish of a place at least tbf, and the single-person renter that needs a place by themselves for whatever reason is badly in need of this type of development (ideally that all the doors could open, fair enough)

course, 400 a month is the absolute fuckin max they should be paying for it, else hang everyone involved.

heh wait, that's a *2* person unit wheres me scaffold

Getting fleeced by landlords, can’t cross the threshold
Wait a minute:
"Where's me scaffold? Where's me scaffold? Where's me scaffold?"

✓

its alright to say things can only get better
when you havent been a smithfield lettor

Eat natural food baked twice daily
And leftovers again, cos you’re saving
Don't drink tea and don't drink coffee
Stare at your wall and dream of toffee

literally eating toffee rn, no recession here

Ye voting? Love the traditional THE BOXES ARE GOING TO THE ISLANDS story.

Good luck Eire!

Actual eco fascists found!

https://www.facebook.com/380210362718140/posts/669047833834390/?d=n

vote long gone, they clean those registers up pretty fast. surprisingly so considering getting on in the first place involved filling out a for that had been photocopied to the point of illegibility and the process did not exactly suggest administrative efficiency

i have voted

ye can ask if ye like, im all about openness

Who’s going to be the first to post a shot of voting nuns itt?

This changes everything. (via detective pals @eoinwilson and @ewanfromdublin).

A thread.

— Michael Pidgeon (@Pidge) May 24, 2018

vote long gone, they clean those registers up pretty fast. surprisingly so considering getting on in the first place involved filling out a for that had been photocopied to the point of illegibility and the process did not exactly suggest administrative efficiency

Lol at this (surprisingly educational) video!

Voters across the country will cast their ballot in #GE2020 using the Single Transferable Vote, with people able to rank their candidates in order of preference. @news2dayRTE enlisted the help of pupils at Glenbeg NS in Dungarvan to explain the system | https://t.co/Sz3eM8tLPm pic.twitter.com/KpoutPd2rG

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) February 7, 2020

I’m still on the register and I emigrated 11 years ago!

― hyds (gyac), Saturday, 8 February 2020 10:17 (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I moved 10 and I was off it a year later

yer local td prob has a lot to do with it, ring is famous for managing the register around my home home

Because I'm a person of low moral character, there were until last year three things that were still sent to my mother's old place (and begrudgingly delivered the five minutes walk to where she lives now with my sister):

* Trinity Today, because alumni magazines will survive the death of the universe.
* Bank statements for an AIB account which has, no word of a lie, €0.01 in it.
* Things related to me being on the electoral register, which is mostly voting cards but last October, when my sister gave me a few years' worth of stuff at once, a jury duty notice for later that month!

They're very clear that you have to return the form with whatever you're pleading and any supporting information, and when I rang to ask what I should put, they said "Just put that you don't live in Ireland any more". This seemed too easy, so I later checked that at least I'd be taken off the electoral register and they said no, but we'll put you through now, and the next one said yes that'll be done, no we won't email you a receipt or anything.

My voting card arrived a few weeks ago, I'm told.

* Bank statements for an AIB account which has, no word of a lie, €0.01 in it.

the student account set up the thursday before first classes to get all the clobber, hah?

i remember aib being allowed into my primary school to sign us all up for accounts with £1 in them

I think I got removed when I explained why I couldn't turn up in Bray for jury duty.

Last year BOI cottoned on to the fact that I might not be a student *checks notes* 19 years after I started university.

I also have an account with €0.01 in it, but I feel like I heard they charge you money to close them, so fuck that.

Yesssss
https://img.rasset.ie/0013912e-614.jpg?ratio=1.78

The first voting nuns of #GE20 https://t.co/AFFn21sBTx pic.twitter.com/rxist2EfLJ

— broadsheet_ie (@broadsheet_ie) February 8, 2020

thank god, i was afrit

SF didn't run enough candidates

Irish politics discussion thread

Irish men the 'undisputed ugliest' in the world, according to dating website for 'beautiful people'https://t.co/sWt3Avya0D

— Irish Daily Mirror (@IrishMirror) February 16, 2020

A new poll by picky international dating site beautifulpeople.com has seen Irish males slip to the foot of a table of the world’s most attractive nationalities.

Just six per cent of Irish single men who applied to land their profiles on the elite Los Angeles-based site were successful - less than any other nationality, and officially Ireland’s worst-ever result in the site’s annual nation-by-nation ‘beauty charts’.

In contrast Ireland’s women have climbed up the table to sixth overall in the world - their highest-ever ranking and tied with France, with an impressive 35 percent acceptance rate.

Further analysis of Ireland’s data - which is taken from statistics from the island of Ireland as a whole - reveals Dublin to be home to the “most attractive” inhabitants, followed by Cork, Galway and then Belfast. However, romance-hunters from Limerick were most likely to be rejected.

Come on though, you're top at something.

I think you’ll see the women aren’t included in that? 😶

The men have written their name in the history books though.

cant be denied, taken as bunch the rural fellas are still carrying a lot of the impacts of generational famine-traceable poverty

and we dont rly have the climate to work on the beach bod or tan

hairlines ate an issue an all

just as well we have the charm

have we a government yet

just a civil service, itll be ok

Previous ministers stay in post till a new government forms so, yes.

Idk why you thought I didn’t know this.

xp we’re in safe hands with ye running the place anyway.

*spends entire morning trying to compose a topical limerick that doesn't mis-stress the word "limerick" *

Correct pronunciation is two syllables, fyi

depends on whether you need to rhyme with mrick for the county or boyyyyyyyy for the cidddyyyy tbh

It’s pronounced “biy”.

*morning becomes longer*

its pronounced langer

Dáil is trying to pick a Taoiseach, will I be fucked watching the whole thing? Depends how delayed this train is. Anyway, here’s the link.

https://www.pscp.tv/w/cR7I43R3LTI4ODE2MzM4MTV8MXlOeGFReWFQbGd4at4X_ZE1eK-ehsBsOoH3XdQmmmHhCsuI4skHSWv1w5cn

Is it in order for TDs to address the chamber in Irish, how many of them do/can

its in order, id say more do than can tbh

game of them

lol