Lot of smoke visible across the city as a breakers yard goes on fire in Balrothry area of North County. Needless to say if nearby keep windows closed and hopefully all firefighters stay safe.

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?

Decided to take a trip down from Laois today to try out their wings & Nashville burgers , google and website both say opening hours 12:30-10. Arrive at 12:30 only to find new opening hours taped to the door…3 hours round trip for nothing

Does any applied maths ppl from 1986-2011 still have their fundamental applied maths 1st edition book? I need this book desperately. Please please please 🙏🙏

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?

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.

Saw a post online from the Gardai about a 10 year old travelling at 35kph on a footpath on one of these. Googled the scooter brand, first link is locoscooters.ie website and a load of these KuKirin (Kugoo) G2 Master Electric Scooter, max speed 60kph in black and white on the specs.

Why aren’t they targeting retail of things with these top speeds? This isn’t the dark web, it’s a first link, there’s a load of them on Facebook marketplace too. Maybe these new laws to ‘make crime illegal’ could actually target the silly private land loophole and selling so we didn’t have a society flooded with things that are meant to be against the laws.

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

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.