No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

You'd wonder why students apply to university far away when they clearly cant afford to live there.

Did you ever see a student refuse free food.....of course it'd go in a few minutes

I saw bags of food being carried into the university,

The more food they can get for free will mean more money for drink, it must be the joke of the uni

The best of all my neighbour gets the svp hamper at christmas including coal he drawing welfare ,working round the clock and he having the finest house and car on our road some joke!!!

Just on the students.

maybe these are folk from lesser backgrounds genuinely trying to better themselves but financially struggling to do so. Yea I’m sure there’s an amount of messing going on, but we have to acknowledge that rents and college fees are crazy here, and not all students are drunk louts, that’s a generalisation like all farmers are lazy rich hicks getting easy handouts from taxpayers.

People don't report these things, they don't realise it's their hard earned tax that is being wasted

Have a young lad in college. Worked all summer for to get the fees together. Working Saturday and 3 nights during the week to get the dosh to run his car. Takes a packed lunch with him everyday. It's not that easy for some of them.

Most students I know Have jobs, Grand niece is in Cork and she doesn't need free food.

There's no control on Govt spending now but it's your children and their comrades that'll be paying it all back

just typical really

She heard someone say that the grass was greener on the other side.😆

Everyone has a smartphone now in fairness. The back legs looked very limp to me. I'd like to have seen them stand but I presume that's why they cut the video.

Youngest did the same. He studied at NUIG and shared a 3 bed apartment (after 1st year) with 2 other lads. He came home to NCD on the bus every weekend and work Fri night, Sat afternnon/night and Sunday afternoons (including full time work during the Summer break) in a well know pub/nightclub in the city center. I would drop him into work on Sundays with his rushsack/holdall full of clean clothes etc and he would finish work on Sunday night in time to catch the GoBus back to Galway. He had a car which he used to drive to and from work but it was cheaper to get the GoBus to and from Galway.

You’re 100% right. I was talking to a roofer lately, he’d be about mid 30’s. He says when they’re on any of the bigger sites he’d be nearly one of the youngest lads on site. There’s very few lads in their 20’s working in trades. Who’s going to do all the work in 20 or so years time when the lads in their 30’s now are gone past it?

I was 7 years out of school before starting a trade, one of the best decisions ive made but its definitly not for everyone just as third level isnt for everybody either. Everyone ive met from school who went onto third level at the time reckons im elected after going down this route. Only in the 2nd year now and take home roughly €550-600/week on average and thats Monday to Friday, compared to studying for 4 years and having to do a graduate scheme/internship after qualifying for little pay.