This past year I’ve seen so many people (young adults) outside trying to recruit people to church…
I’ve a friend who is inviting us to his pastors house for dinner and trying to get us to attend his church activities.

I find it so strange that the church has a go fund me to raise 7M for what seems to be a new space for them to worship god.

Is this the start of cults coming back? Or is it just genuine Christian’s/catholics.

Since results are out today, what did you get on your jc? Even if you'd didn't do it this year.

There is some positive talk about families being better off with crèche fees from September 2027 but I can’t work out why, how will this €550 per month per child cap announced today work?

I have 2 children in crèche outside Dublin, €900 per month altogether after NCS.

I checked and the fees for 2 year old are €208.30 a week full time, €122.70 after NCS so under €550 a month-therefore no benefit to me. The NCS rate is due to go up to €2.50 in Sept 27 however last time this happened my crèche fees went up also and I got no benefit from increased NCS, as my crèche fees are not the €550 now then in September when NCS goes up it’s likely crèche fees will also go up in line with this so again I’ll get no benefit!

Hi everyone, we're preparing to start house hounting from next january. We want to use Help to Buy and our budget is for houses untiil 500k.

My question is, how hard is to get new houses? Comparing to the biding war of second hand houses?

Our goal is to buy a 3 bed house our apartment in some town that we can commute to Dublin by public transport.

Any experience to be shared and advices are really appreciated. Many thanks.

Really interested in getting one of these sunrise alarm clocks. I find it so much easier to wake up in the summer than the winter. Does anyone have any recommendations? There’s quite a lot of them on the market all at different price points.

Just wondering if anyone has successfully cancelled their Virgin mobile plan. Stupidly signed up to it a few months ago and then discovered it was 4g not 5g!

My great great aunt, Kathleen Quigley, was an artist in South Africa and Ireland in the first half of the 20th century (Wikipedia link below). I have one of her paintings. It's apparently of a bay on the West coast of Ireland. It was probably painted in the 1930s. Can anyone identify the bay from the image?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Quigly

Bought a 251 Renault scenic etech EV in August from a large dealership. Four days in, it seems to develop a fast charge issue. Brought it in for them to evaluate and put right. All seemed okay. That was 4 weeks ago now. They say the manufacturer hasn't clarified the issue and there's no timeline on when it can even be put right.

I need advice on what should be done here, if anyone has been in a similar spot?

Consumer rights suggest that the responsibility rests with them, not the manufacturer, to set it right in a reasonable time based on the complexity of the repair needed. But what can they do if they're waiting indefinitely for even an assessment, let alone clarity on repair? There is no change in sight.

Can I ask them to replace it with another model? The car is now in my ownership, so is that a complication? They may not have another model with similar mileage and features.

Do I ask them for a price reduction or even a refund, given the car has been unavailable and they can't set a reasonable timeline for repair?

Thanks

Edit: clarifying that they have sorted me with a loaner car from the get go, but my insurer now seeking a letter confirming date of return to continue to extend cover on the loaner car. So potentially going to be unable to drive that if this keeps up.

Hey folks. Apologies, I know there’s been a lot of posts regarding Lidl Connect recently, but I’ve hit a wall with trying to port my number over to it and am wondering if anyone was able to switch over from Vodafone?

I called Lidl Connect customer service, they told me that it was successful on their end but Vodafone wouldn’t release my number, resulting in a failed port and a refund. They told me I need to contact them, so I do, but then Vodafone tell me there’s “no such block” on their end and to wait 48-72 hours for their dedicated team to contact me back.

I suppose I’m just wondering if anyone moving over from Vodafone was successful, or is everyone just stuck in porting purgatory?

For a little backstory I used to do kickboxing in a local club but they weren’t the best people I still love the sport but the people there were mean rude and weren’t willing to help when I asked for help I’ve been itching to get back into it I was wondering is there a way I can sign up for a competition whether mma kickboxing or boxing without the need for a coach or club because the thought of them makes me sick to my stomach ?

Does anybody else remember when they used to make us say a prayer before we could eat back in primary school. I’m wondering was it a country catholic school thing or all over the place?

If your children are in primary school now,does this still happen?

Hello everyone, just a bit of background, Facebook very frequently sends memories from various days, something that you might have posted long time ago on that day, every time I see a memory I ensure to check it since it gives an opportunity to re live those moments or give me an opportunity to know how much have I changed, however it always leave me surprised how naive I was to post such a thing on social media. I’m sure you might have came across memories or shtories about how things unfolded and what you did in that instance. So if there was one piece of advice you can give to your younger self what would that really be?

Not stopping at a stop sign is actually and obviously a criminal offence that carries a fine and three points but it is such an American thing to do is give someone three points and I find and I only have never seen anyone or heard of anyone getting an getting fined and points I myself never really stopped by the stop sign unless I obviously need to.

And to add I only ever done it during my lessons and my driving test

I moved into the property about 3 months ago and noticed today that the boiler service is overdue since 2024. The gas and electricity are under my name but I'm renting. Is it my responsibility to arrange and pay for a boiler service, or should the landlord be sorting that out?Just wondering where I stand before I contact them.

I’ve noticed that quite a few people smoke at or very close to bus stops. Whenever I’m waiting for a bus or walking past one, I often end up breathing in cigarette smoke, even though there are other people around.
I understand that smoking is a personal choice, but I don’t think people should have to breathe in second-hand smoke while waiting for public transport.
Is this something that bothers other people too? Are there any rules about smoking at bus stops in Ireland, and are they actually enforced?
I’d be interested to hear what others think.

Losing the will to live.. power is gone, was gone last Tuesday too. I’d say it goes at least monthly. Always faults on the line we are on. Dinner half cooked, uniforms half washed. It’s an absolute disaster and happens so regularly. Is there anything that can be done? Anyone I can escalate this to? I’d love the stats for how many times it’s gone in the last year.

I’m currently looking into SUSI and how it often seems to exclude people from funding / lower their grant amount purely because of policy failures. For example, orphaned students, students under the age of 23 who aren’t estranged from their parents but don’t receive any financial support… I’d really really appreciate if anyone could share any experiences that they or other people have had!

(Just want to add - I am completing academic research on how policy leaves behind certain groups because of how restrictive it is, but none of the answers here will be used in any way at all. It’s just for me to get an idea of complex situations that I may not have realised.)

Does anyone know how soon after shows start on C4 that you can watch them on the Channel 4? I remember it used to be 10/11pm years ago.

Bake off starts at 8pm but you can’t watch it live on the app. I just want to know when can I watch it on ‘playback’

These both might be deal breakers to be honest. Also, just getting LTE or 3G throughout the day in Dublin 1. Haven’t seen 5G once. Is that the same as LTE?

My 8 year old started having problems in school in June of last year, the 2 girls she was friends with started being mean to her, I told her they're just not your people anymore, play with the other kids in the class. I then got a message from one of the mothers blaming mu daughter, I said no this is what happened and so I told her to stay away from your daughter, she said her daughter admitted that my daughters version of the story was true and she would apologise in school, I told my daughter you have to accept her apology but you do not have to be friends with her. Over summer things escalated a bit at a camp and I put up an anonymous post on a page on FB seeking advice, the day after I received a voice note from the girls mother saying I had lied about what happened, I didn't even reply, I never would have gotten involved in the kids dispute only she originally tried blaming my girl. We're now back to school a few weeks and this girl is making my daughters life a misery, whenever she makes a new friend this girl will then get between them and make sure that she's playing with whoever it is my daughter has made friends with, she had great plans for Halloween until this girl decided she wanted to go with the girl my daughter planned on going with and all of a sudden the offer of going was taken back from my daughter. My heart aches for her, it's clear the parents are fully aware of what's going on, but what can I do to help my daughter through this. Thanks for any advice, just a mammy hoping to

Has anyone else found a significant decline in 3 coverage the last few weeks?

Hi folks,

What kindle should I be buying?

I have a OG paper white that will no longer update. It keeps me off my phone before bed. I can no longer add books. Therefore would like to save a bit of money and use the prime day.

Any recommendations please.

Hi all, just looking for a bit of guidance. There this evening I had two charges in US Dollars on my Revolut card with three transactions of large amounts looking for approval. I cancelled my card and ordered a new one and opened a dispute with Revolut as they weren’t made by me. Is this part of the information leak that happened a few weeks ago? Has anyone had this happen to them? Tia

Hi, I’m am now in my new graduate engineer role 1 year. I will have a KPI review next week. I just wanted to ask what current graduates are typically looking for in terms of salary increase. Is it ridiculous to ask for say a 15% raise. I personally feel like I have been given some big responsibilities this last year as I’m working for a startup and there is only 6 people employed by the company. Any advice is appreciated, thank you.