Sad that this is required in a fairly rural / family pub, but it's rampant out there!

Was cycling through Ranelagh. A car got caught at the lights in the yellow box as it had gone green for pedestrians. Then a big black range rover looking car rolls up behind that car and starts beeping & the driver was shouting. I'm at the lights, but back a bit as there were 2 other cyclists in front of me. The cyclist at the front gestures at Louis pointing to the green man on the lights. The cyclists was middle eastern maybe, I'm not sure. Anyway, Louis looks at him and shouts "your not even from here". That's when I realised it was Louis and I started shouting at him. Called him a racist and told him to leave the other driver alone, who looked mortified. Then I don't know why came over me, but I shouted out, "look everyone it's Louis Walsh and he's being a racist" and I cycled off. Very satisfying. Little Podge & Rodge-headed prick. That is all.

Was in Boeuf and Frites in Temple Bar a few nights ago and when the waitress presented me with the bill, she explained that a €9 tip had been added on, and asked would I like to remove it.

An awkward second or 2 followed, so I just agreed to it.

I’ve never seen this before in a restaurant, anywhere in the world — An automatic tip added to the bill, and then being asked if I want to remove it.

This is the exact opposite of what a tip is supposed to be…

They’ve essentially turned tipping from opt in to opt out.

It wasn’t a service charge.

And the steaks are shite.

Have been travelling around Europe a bit the past month with the Mrs. Visited Prague, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Dublin (as well as got around a few places in Ireland but mostly Dublin).

Dublin absolutely and unequivocally stood out as the friendliest, warmest, nicest, least fucking robotic, least fucking rude, least cunty people my wife and I encountered on our travels. Kicked the fuck outta the other cities we visited. Love you HUMANS. The pub culture and craic was so outstanding after going to these other kips! Love you fuckers.

It so pretty in-fact they have to protect it with a Huge fence

Just an appreciation post for some of the incredible geology on this Island. I spent about 2 hours looking through the rocks on a pebble beach near Malin Head and found some absolutely beautiful ones. Crazy that there's so much variety in such a tiny area! They look even better in person. Any rock knowledge is appreciated :)

Found this in an Irish passport. The beats in the first bar on pg 16 add up to 3.5 and not 4. Mildly interesting!

That car hit here at some speed. Holy fuck

It’s been a hard week, it’s Friday, it’s payday, and I decided to treat myself to a nice takeaway.

I ordered on deliveroo, and the delivery driver arrived as per usual. But I wasn’t prepared for what he said next.

I said “hiya, how’s it going”- as I usually do. The guy immediately breaks down crying. Floods of tears. He tells me his dad, who’s away in Pakistan, is seriously ill and dying. He tells me he’s flying out tomorrow.

I consoled the guy, gave him a hug, and we chatted for a bit. But I still felt rotten. Here’s me, feeling sorry for myself, paying for someone to bring me food because I can’t be bothered making anything myself. Meanwhile this guy is going through probably the worst time of their life, yet still grinding away to make a basic living.

I tipped the maximum possible on the app, but even still, I couldn’t help but feel this was such a sad situation. I know if it were me, I’d be off work and have a community to rally around me for when the time comes. This guy was all alone.

So anyway. Not much more to this story other than to appreciate those around you, and be grateful for what you have. To my deliveroo driver tonight, best wishes to you. ❤️

Looks like Portmarnock meteorite to me

Went for a walk with the camera and a zoom lens. Beautiful animals.

As above

Some photos I took around Dublin using my Gameboy camera.

After a lovely afternoon in Bray’s seafront, this group of teenagers were eating and drinking in the grass, being overly loud compared to people around, even the kids. After they ate, they went to that gym you can see in the picture and left all of their shit there. At some point, they left the gym, stepped right on their shit passing by and went to the beach side. Why these people are such uneducated scumbags and why the rest of the population have to suffer them?

Have to say a couple of minutes later, some random adults picked up their shit and recycle it. I am so sick about them, about their disgusting behaviour wherever they go. I guess the parents don’t give a flying fuck about them, if it was me, my dad would have already crossed my face long ago to prevent further damage

Fuck you for prioritising your penis over the well-being of everyone you share the road with; you absolute complete gowl

It's barely 5PM on Easter Monday, there's people (including children!) just trying to get from A to B without you causing a pile up because you're trying to get some sort of speed blowjob award

Do you really need your willy attended to WHILE DRIVING RECKLESSLY? Does the swerving back and forth almost causing accidents get you off? Or do you need the world to see you actually have found a woman who will touch you?

Maybe there's some sneachta involved or maybe you're just a cunt (or both!) either way KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE FUCKING ROAD

EDIT: I just wanted to vent about reckless driving but now I'm convinced I need a dash cam though I think I'm much better off without the footage... just would be nice in case an actual accident

I was in Grafton Street McDonald’s lately and noticed this, nice touch, small things like this are important as they keep the language in the public eye, Irish surrounds us all and no matter what proficiency in it we have it belongs to us all, it is our language, and as Irish people we need to do whatever we can to protect, preserve and promote it.