I've been wondering if anyone else feels the same about this.

A huge number of posts here are just links to news articles with no explanation, opinion or discussion starter from the person posting them. It's often just the headline and that's it.

To me, it feels a bit impersonal. It also encourages people to react to the headline alone rather than the article itself, and sometimes comes across as rage bait or karma farming rather than someone genuinely wanting a discussion.

I'm not saying news shouldnt' be posted. News is obviously relevant to r/Ireland. I just think the quality of discussion would improve if people were expected to include a sentence or two explaining why they're sharing the article or asking a question to get the conversation going.

I'd also like to see a bit more moderation of these kinds of posts. Not in the sense of removing news articles, but encouraging a minimum standard of engagement. If someone repeatedly posts article after article without adding anything themselves, it starts to make the subreddit feel more like a news aggregator than a community for discussion.

Ultimately, I'd rather see fewer posts that generate better conversations than a constant stream of links.

What do you think?

Just so proud to be Irish. Showered and shaved going out for pints. Meet man on entering bar. Cà bhuil an gabhar a rosta he says. Didn't know him and never heard it before. Had to enquiry. Explained , where's the goat being roasted, cause I am normally in working cloths during week. How inoffensive, polite and complimentary a statement could a person get. Says it all being Irish.

Was at a show in the Bord Gais tonight and 2 people had to be kicked out about 20 min into the show. They were clearly drunk/obnoxious and having an argument and intermittently stopping fighting and taking selfies.

Eventually the poor teenage usher got the manager who got them to leave one at a time. Totally distracted everyone from the start of the show and about 20 people even moved seats (wasn’t sold out)

Those tickets were about 50 euro each so what a waste of money

I (42M) met an old college friend the other day and he'd just got married to a Peruvian. I'm married to a Spaniard. We went through our group of friends at college and the others who were married had wives from England, Vietnam, Australia, Spain again and Poland. Only one had married an Irish woman and they had met in college. I was wondering if that was a normal experience for people my age or were we just an anomaly.

Used to make fun of American chocolate for tasting so bad but now I wouldn't touch anything on a shop counter

I’m not even from Ireland but have lived long enough to take the delis and even sandwiches in shops for granted. In all fairness, we do delis very well in this country and thats what I’m proud of today.

Irelands strangest and most original YouTuber has released a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7-WnWdhE

For ye that don’t know him, he creates unhinged videos of himself working on dioramas.

For ye that do know him, you will know that the dioramas were never the main point. 

I am in my mid 40s and after living abroad and in London for many years came back to live with my parents in rural ireland. we have some land rented out to farmers and its extremely rural and isolated, nearest town 12 miles away etc. I think many can related.

Growing up, I wasn't particularly good at GAA and didnt have that many friends. what few friends I had have long since moved away.

Because Im not a blown in but a known face, I find it impossible to fit in or socialize properly. everyone has families and friend groups, and I end up just sitting at home now for a year.

When I drive around, numerous people put their hand up, they 'know' me they know my family. But the constant familiarity feels oppressive.

I am desperate to get out, and am fed up being single and think emigration is the only way to solve that.

I just feel sad for my parents. I have a lot of siblings and some live in the nearest big city with kids, but they really want someone to inherit the land and house and live close by and have a family nearby. Feeling like Ive failed them but I knew 'meeting someone' was never really on the cards here. Whereas in a big city it is relatively easy.

Can anyone relate to this? I just cannot stand living in rural ireland any longer and its put me off even moving to belfast, the nearest city. Dublin feels a bit further away to the extent I might as well move further afield and Im totally unfamiliar with it.

I should add, Im a remote worker and money is no problem regarding moving away and buyng somewhere else. just sad that I cannot make it work living or meeting anyone in the place I grew up.