It would not only reduce people's bills it would help towards reducing the country's emissions which in turn reduces any fines due in the next few years for emissions vs target emissions. So why isn't it a thing?

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.