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"Green" policies are destroying this country

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    No one gives lifts anymore, too many insurance claims,



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,328 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Ah but if you use an app and allow a bunch of hipsters in in California to track your habits with AI then it's carpooling not thumbing



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭malinheader


    How is car sharing thumbing.

    Done a fair bit myself when I was younger because I didn't have a car. People who thumb are looking for a free ride, nothing to do with sharing or pooling.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭brokenangel


    How is it not sharing? Someone is going the same way and you share a car with them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭brokenangel


    How would giving a lift mean you will get an insurance claim?

    Unless you crash?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭malinheader


    Car sharing as were being told by certain parties is instead of 1 occupant to a car fill the car so less cars on the road. You take it in turns whose car you take.

    If you have no car your cadging a lift as we say up here. If you have no car what are you sharing??



  • Posts: 15,801 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    No it is not.

    Not only is it, but you then follow up the above denial with a paragraph of whataboutery again. See below

    It`s about the greens wrecking our economy when it will achieve sweet f a unless the four largest emitters, (with three of that four being among the strongest economies on the planet), who have clearly shown they have no intentions of dropping their use of coal for energy generation.

    Anyway,moving on

    The transition we have managed so far certainly hasn`t achieved the low cost electricity energy we were told it would

    Who said it would lead to lower cost electricity at this stage of the transition?

    How are we going to achieve the transmission to 100% renewable energy where practically all of our renewable energy presently comes from wind that requires non-renewables to keep the lights on

    Asked and answered on a regular basis on this thread. You're a regular contributor here so it's strange that you would ask this. I even posted a reply to tom1ie within the last 2 days. You're welcome to have a look.

    where Irish Greens have banned exploration licences

    Just a clarification, it was a cabinet decision, i.e. FF, FG and GP cabinet members signed off and approved the ban.

    are attempting to ban LNG

    Again another clarification required here. The PfG states that LNG terminals make no sense for Ireland so they have no intention or interest in developing them.

    There is an active PP application with ABP for a terminal in Shannon.

    There is a PMB from Nessa Hourigan looking to ban LNG terminals.

    Her bill will not prevent the Shannon terminal from being built if granted and the Irish market is not big enough for 2 terminals given the long term prospects of such an investment.

    So in effect its a publicity stunt that has no bearing on the real situation. Wouldn't be the first time a politician has pulled a stroke like that.

    will not even consider reopening turf burning stations

    And again, allow me to clarify your misunderstanding of the situation.

    The peat power stations had to close as their planning permission had expired and attempts to extend it were rejected by the planning authority.

    Given that, there is no feasible approach that could pass a planning application again.

    will not consider nuclear other than hoping they can scrounge it from elsewhere hoping it will be there at a sufficient level when needed

    Nuclear power is currently not possible in Ireland due to the legislation that prevents it. Like literally says "no feckin nuke power on irish soil". Only way to change that would be to change the legislation, which there is virtually no support for.

    In addition nuke plants are utterly bonkers economically and you can't build 1,you have to have a second as these are baseload stations and when a nuke plant goes down, it can sometimes be months or years before they come back online.

    Big risk to take.

    and plan to close Tarbert next year and Moneytpoint 2 years later. ?

    Well yeah, they emit a crap ton of, well, crap, into the air. They need to be shutdown but its not like we're just going to be shutting the down and leaving a void.

    Note, Moneypoint is already being lined up with a far more important role down the line. The transmission infrastructure is already there so it's not going to be left idle. Its very likely that Tarbert will be pivoted also to serve as a connection point for offshore wind.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    I think some of the Green ideas are great, but some are just bullshit. Looks great but really painting over the bullshit and only kidding ourselves driving around in an electric car thinking we have just saved the planet when in fact we are sourcing 8 kg of lithium, 35 kg of nickel, 20 kg of manganese and 14 kg of cobalt for each battery from countries that I'm sure aren't using environmentally friendly practices of mining all while plugging in and charging fro electricity that is powered from fossil fuels such as gas

    France i believe have just reclassed Nuclear energy now as renewable, so with the stroke of a pen, its renewable and i think some similar trickery has been done or attempted with gas.

    Some of the measures towards renewable feel like they're optic, but scratch the surface and they're not. They come with a footprint.


    We complain about the Chinese, Indian and the Russians not sharing the same interest, nor will they, the only way we (the west) bring about change in this regard is to get rid of the single use garbage that they produce


    My big gripe with PV solar. I'm getting in a system next month to reduce the bills. When, down the line most people have it, watch, like night follows day, the ESB will hike their bullshit standing charges to make up the shortfall, so in essence you'll pay what you used to pay before you ever had solar.



  • Posts: 1,690 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm not going to get involved in the nuclear vs. LPG debate, for the very simple reason that I dont have the necessary knowledge to contribute .

    I'm also going to choose to accept the broad definition of "Green policies", rather than making an argument that is pro, or anti Green Party (No, I don't vote for them).

    I suspect most Western Countries are fiddling while Rome burns, tbh.

    I don't understand why legislation is not put in place to limit plastic packaging, as opposed to forcing the consumer to pay for the packaging, then pay for the waste disposal, and resultant carbon from lorries transporting said packaging across the Country. Surely it would be more carbon efficient to just limit the amount of plastic that can be used in the first place?

    I don't understand why supermarkets are not encouraged to sell food in smaller quantities, thus avoiding waste.

    I don't understand why airlines fly across the Atlantic (and elsewhere), with passenger numbers well below capacity - surely there has to be a better system? Meanwhile, Joe Soap is penalised for driving to work!

    In short - I don't understand why the end consumer pays for everything, despite having very limited choice on how goods are either packaged, or disposed of.

    I'm in favour of saving the planet. I'm in favour of Green policies. I just don't agree with either the logic of the policies being forced on people, or, the fact that said policies are imposed without affordable alternatives for many people.

    In my opinion, theres no point in giving tax breaks on electric vehicles if

    A: You can't afford to buy one in the first place, and

    B: There aren't enough charge points available to get you where you want to go.

    Lastly, do people seriously think they should get to dictate what people are going to eat?

    Meanwhile, it's acceptable for cut flowers to be flown all over the world, and no-one says a word?

    Lastly, how is it acceptable that a lot of delegates at Ecofin flew in on private jets, then encourage policies to penalise those who use less carbon driving to work all year, than is used in one or two trips in their private jets.

    As I said, I'm in favour of green policies - but I'd like to see affordable alternatives in place before penalising those who have no choice. I'd also like to see something remotely like common sense being used to promote sustainable policies, as opposed to using the climate crises as a money grabbing exercise.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭brokenangel


    ^^^^

    To answer some of the above. In regards to the electric cars the grants got put in place to try attract new buyers to the cars. I would suggest now you have car manufacturers who are just increasing the price of the car because they know the grant is in place.

    If people are buying new cars, then they are selling old cars. The more cars that are sold the more electric cars flow down to second hand users. Not everyone has to buy a new electric car, it is better for the environment to buy 1 car and then drive it till it drops off the road, the CO2 to create a car is huge.

    The charge points are interesting because you have multiple new companies all installing. I have an electric car 5+ years and used a public charger 3, maybe 4 times in all that time. That was with a small battery car, a lot of the newer cars have such a big battery most people will only need to charge 1-2 times per week.

    Shops are interesting, we actually had a perfect system years ago. Then for some reason it was decided to cover everything in plastic. I don't even know why. I do know in US/UK they are moving away from having everything in plastic.

    The bigger problem is people now expect the same fruit all year around, when in reality the seasons mean this is not possible. So that's why you have trucks/planes etc transporting food all over the World and we have such high waste. This is not going to change because people demand choice.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Bump the head getting in or out, trip getting out nip fingers in the door, PTSD from a near miss, people will claim for anything and Insurance companies seem happy to humour them



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    On the ESB thing, a relative owns a vacant house, they go up now and then, turn the heat on etc, uses about 170units for 2months, Bill was €85,



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,715 ✭✭✭✭charlie14



    In fairness you put a lot of time and effort into that post, but its till the same ignoring of reality and contains no answers to the questions being asked.

    Just to go through that point by point.

    1 My points on CO2 emissions stands and you have shown nothing to to show otherwise.

    2 The story was being sold that renewables would provides with cheaper electricity. It has not, nor will it be while electricity is being priced using the green favoured marginal model. Presently under that pricing regime if 90% of our electricity came from renewables we would still be paying the same as if 100% came from natural gas.

    3 Our indigenous gas fields will be depleted by 2025. We will not have 100% renewable energy by then, or anytime in the foreseeable future. We will continue to need a non-renewable source to fill the gap of unreliable wind energy. As we are the only option is natural gas due to other than gas fired plants being shut or downgraded. Our options for natural gas are, a pipeline from a none E.U. country, (and we see how that can work out), or the capability to source and buy our own LNG which would require a LNG terminal something. Greens have shown they are opposed to not just a LNG terminal but LNG.

    So no natural gas, liquefied or not, and no nuclear, recognised by the E.U as the only other transition energy source, what do Irish greens think is going to be the energy source that is going to fill that gap ?

    4 Greens will not even consider the possibility of re-opening two turf burning plants that have just been shut for 15 months.Be that with a further application (where the most vociferous opponent to the previous application as far as I know is employed as a Green Party researcher in the Seanad) or by legislation with us facing a national energy crisis.

    5 My mention of nuclear, (even if greens for years have been part of the problem rather than the solution regarding an adult discussion on nuclear), was again to emphasis that when it came to filling the gap of wind energy the greens have no answer other than going scrounging of others hoping they have a surplus when we need it. That`s not a policy. It`s crossing your fingers and hoping every time you need it will work out.

    6 Of course Tarbert and Moneypoint emit a load of crap (even if some of the wealthiest nations in the world don`t give.. well a crap about doing it), by 2025 with gas fields depleted, no LNG, no nuclear and no Tarbert or Moneypoint with both shut there is nothing left, so unless you can show me how we are going to reach 100% renewable energy by then, then at that staged we are going to be well and truly screwed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,049 ✭✭✭Mecanudo


    I see you're attempting to row back on a whole bunch of a whole bunch of 'green' misinformation which has already been debunked on this thread. Though at this stage its really surprising considering the habit of the greens generally treating people like mushrooms, keeping them in the dark and feeding them compost.

    Let me set you straight on a few things there

    Whataboutery is when you change the subject. The op didn't change the subject at all but rather provided context of the situation regarding emissions globally.

    It's funny how some dyed in the woolites generally don't like the inconvenient facts that without the big Five emitters of greenhouse gas reigning in their emissions - the climate is effectively fuked.

    But let's move on.

    It has been widely argued for well over a decade that Renewable power generation is cheaper than fossil fuel production and would bring more price stability. It hasn't.

    Btw no you haven't adequately answered how we are going to move to 100% renewable energy generation. Because the answer to that involves using EU sanctioned generation methods including natural gas and nuclear- to which the greens here have generally responded to by having a mickey fit and or simply pretending that those generation methods are not needed.

    And no the decision to ban the exploration for futute natural gas resources was NOT a cabinet decision.

    We learn from one of those curiously deleted green party Web pages that and I quote

    The move to end new licences for oil and gas exploration has been a Green Party policy for many years and was a key commitment in the Programme for Government.

    The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Green Party Leader, Eamon Ryan TD,

    today secured Cabinet approval for the inclusion of this legislation in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Amendment Bill, which is due to go before the Oireachtas in the coming weeks. This commitment has been given effect immediately, meaning no new applications will be now accepted by the Department

    And the reason the gp 'secured cabinet approval" for this utterly ridiculous stance, which is in apparent opposition to the green parties own policy of reducing Irelands dependence on imported fossil fuels?

    Because the same green party is an effective lynchpin in the present coalition government and appears to weild an inordinate amount of influence to railroad this and other utterly daft pieces of legislation through for approval.

    As For LNG - from a quick Google it would appear that the green party seem to be behind practicality every move to block LNG terminals even if those terminals are backed throughout the EU. Once again showing just how out of step and stupid that policy really is, especially considering what is going on in Europe atm.




  • Posts: 1,690 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]



    I can understand your point re: second hand electric cars. Having said that, having to possibly replace a battery is going to put a lot of people off. As to charge points, there's one in my local village, then none for 30 miles... there isn't a snowballs chance in hell that the majority of people in this area are going to go electric anytime soon!


    The answer to multipacks is pretty simple. Large supermarket chains get price reductions for bulk purchases. The thing is, not everyone is going to use a multipack of apples, oranges, or A.N Other before they spoil. The end result is supermarkets sell more, hence, greater profits, but the consumer and the environment loses...

    Apologies, I wasn't referring specifically to vegetables or fruits out of season when I mentioned people being dictated to about what they eat, I was referring to comments earlier in the thread about beef being unsustainable for the environment. With all due respect to the poster in question, if I want to eat steak or a beef stew, someone telling me nuts are a more sustainable substitute isn't going to make me choose to have nuts for dinner.

    I agree that people have become accustomed to having vegetables and fruits out of season, and that its not sustainable. Having said that, we imported over 10.1 billion in agrifoods in 2020 - items such as potatoes, onions, cabbage and carrots - all of which we are capable of producing ourselves, (and to a higher standard, imho), and some of which was imported while it was in season here. Trade agreements are outside of consumer control, yet they have an impact on both producers and consumers in this Country.

    My point is that the consumer is always made to pay - but often doesn't have an alternative.

    Personally, I'd prefer to buy local produce - yet if I want to buy milk from the local farmer, he cannot legally sell it to me.

    These are issues that I've never heard any Green policy activist mention, yet, they are discussions that need to be had, if policymakers are remotely serious about halting climate change.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭brokenangel


    On the cars, you won’t have to replace the battery. The very early Leafs had a dodgy battery, since then improvement made, even Hyundai figured out they had a bad battery and replaced all cars free, my parents 2019 will get a new battery soon so the chance of poor quality are gone

    My parents live in middle of nowhere and I think the closest charger is a Lidl one at least 30 miles away, I live in countryside and no idea where local charger is. Home charging is all we do.

    I eat meat, I eat veg, I eat more or less everything. People are so interested in the local Aldi/Lidl they don’t bother looking local. The local butcher is dying and they shouldn’t because number 1 the quality is better plus the ads on TV is waffle, no Irish supplier is big enough for all the lidl and aldi. You are buying poor quality food from god knows where.

    The farmer cannot sell to you because they have not pasteurized milk and that can be dangerous. I do like that local egg suppliers are now setting up stalls you can buy eggs direct from in village etc.

    Everything comes down to price, you walk in and the Irish supplier is at 2 euro for carrot. The Tesco/Lidl/Aldi version is 1 euro and come from Outer Mongolia 😂 guess who most people, including me a lot of times buys



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Everybody knows the climate changes, how exactly could anyone feel superior?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Multipass


    I hadn’t heard about these magical everlasting batteries - do tell

    The fact is that people who can only afford 10+ year old cars are the ones who are going to be saddled with failing batteries, and will be the ones stranded between home and the nearest charge points. Nothing any Green Party member or politician will need to worry about in their brand new, pretending to be green, electric car, that uses no resources whatsoever to manufacture.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭brokenangel


    Nothing is ever lasting.

    How are people "saddled with failing batteries"? as I posted above, the recommendation from the Green Party, including Eamonn, was not to buy a new electric car. It is to drive your current car till it falls off the road as that is better. But if you are buying a new car then you should be looking at electric.

    P.S. you can get stranded between home and a fuel station in a combustion engine car as well.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Multipass


    Disingenuous to say that driving your current car until it falls off the road is the recommendation of the Green Party - their policy is to use tax to make petrol cars unaffordable, and force a switch to electric. 1 million by 2030 remember, I doubt very many of those million will be people whose 25 yr old car just gave up the ghost.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭brokenangel


    About 120k new cars are bought every year in Ireland. The actual target is 845,000 passenger cars, 95,000 vans, 3500 lorries and 1,500 electric buses.

    Plus it is a target, not a requirement. Huge difference.

    Eamonn Ryan was on radio talking about how he ran his car into the ground and then when it was gone had to swap. The CO2 used to create a car is way too high, no matter what engine. So yes they say drive your car till it falls off the road.

    The policy you mention, Carbon tax, is driven by the Paris Agreement which was put in place when the Greens had 2 TD's in the Dail and not members of the government. So instead of making accusations against people maybe do a little bit of research into what you are posting about.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,350 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    states have to step in to try prevent such outcomes, its critical we move to renewables as quickly as possible, preventing as many bankruptcies as possible



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,350 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭brokenangel


    Not sure why you are sharing here? number 1 it has nothing to do with Ireland. Number 2 the issue is not with solar power, the issue is the government has backed out of an agreement they made to the citizens

    This kind of reminds me of the cash for ash deal up the north, poorly thought out grants and then when everyone has invested the government does a legger.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,350 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    we must prevent such outcomes here, elements of nationalisation will be required to get the job done



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,350 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    well theres plenty of individuals and companies just doing that, and id imagine theyve done their homework, and i wish them the best of luck with it, we need them taking these risks, but i will partly agree with state protections for such investments, we ve protected the corporate sector for a long time here, we should also be protecting such critical investments

    such investments are high risk, particularly cryptos, largely unregulated markets which could go to zero in an act, if you re investing for long term gains, you re probably p1ssing against the wind, its likely regulations will eventually be implemented in such markets, and values will collapse. and to add insult, the energy requirements for mining are unsustainable, and the fact the majority of our energy comes from fossil fuels, you can be pretty much guaranteed regulations very soon.... a significant proportion of cryptos and their mining, is already under institutional control, investment funds etc, so you can be damn sure, average joes are being plucked off fairly quickly now, pump and dumps etc

    yes tech stocks have been ramping ahead, but we must also question this and their general behaviors, central bank activities such as qe have immensely helped valuation, making it easier for such companies to continue engaging in financialised activities such as share buy backs, pushing up prices, this money was created to aid 'productive activities' but......

    all in all, this costs you, the taxpayer, by increasing energy demands, thus increasing pollutants, and all its dangers, and helps to grow wealth inequality......



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭brokenangel


    What a load of rubbish, it has nothing to do with Ireland

    Spain made a huge error when they made announcement and the backlog of projects is huge. The backlog is huge because it was a quick way to make loads of money. Plus the price people got paid for electricity was too high.

    See below but plenty more information. It's not just solar but wind as well. As I said this reminds me of the "cash for ash" when a poorly run government implemented a solution without any consideration.

    If you have done any research on the solar PV plan in Ireland it is years been discussed and the price per kWh is not up for sale to the highest bidder. It is an agreed per kWh price.

    The whole Spain implementation is how not to do it. That been said, people spending their entire life savings on a solar farm to be told they can't make a penny out of it anymore is really silly from Spain and should be resolved.

    https://www.pv-tech.org/problems-with-spanish-solars-boom-bust-and-boom/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,049 ✭✭✭Mecanudo


    Whats with the continued gatekeeping? The issues are certainly relevant to issues to investment in renewable energy projects and all too good to be true, get rich quick type schemes. A warning for all would be investors for the buyer to be aware.

    What's interesting is that bulk of renewable energy projects here are largely financed by investment companies looking to expand their portfolios which seem to place little emphasis on whether any such projects are environmentally sustainable or viable.


    And no need to look North for similar issues to Spain regarding government promoted investment vehicles. Our own government was previously involved with the sell off of public utilities where ultimately those who invested got shafted.

    Post edited by Mecanudo on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭brokenangel


    The issue is the system in Spain was set up wrong as per the link. That is why people invested life savings into them because looking at it you would become a millionaire very quickly. The returns seem to be huge

    in Irelands case it is very restricted. For large implementations this is been run by companies who have to buy a license etc. They are also not a person spending a million to put a few large panels in the middle of a field. They have planning etc etc etc.

    For small installation, the agreed per kWh is in place. It is not a sell to highest bidder like in Spain. For home user then it is still been worked out but the price per kWh will be tied to your electricity suppliers. You can only install a maximum system of 6kWh on your roof which is circa 20 panels, most roofs wont hold and if they can you won't be getting rich quick on what you export



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Boards.ie is committed to providing an open forum for discussion and debate. Please note that you are liable for the content of any Material you post on boards.ie. Boards Softwareaccepts no liability of any nature whatsoever for any Material posted on boards.ie by users. Any views or comments expressed in user posts are not necessarily the views of Boards Software, any entity associated with it or any of its employees or agents. Boards SoftwareLimited requires that you read these Terms of Use and our separate Boards.ie Guidelines before posting any Material on Boards.ie

Boards.ie is not responsible for and does not endorse the contents of user’s posts or warrant the accuracy, truthfulness, legality or reliability of user’s posts. You are entirely responsible for material which you post. You agree to fully indemnify Boards SoftwareLimited against all damages, claims, expenses, liabilities, claims and costs (including legal costs) which Boards Software may suffer or incur in the event of any legal proceedings being brought against Boards SoftwareLimited, in consequence of your posting Material. For the avoidance of doubt, the indemnity you give to Boards SoftwareLimited is effective in respect of any and all legal proceedings including any and all possible causes of action that may result from any breach of these Terms of Use and/or applicable law.

We expect you to act responsibly in posting Material on Boards.ie. You agree, through use of this service, NOT to use boards.ie to:


  • post illegal Material
  • treat others with disrespect
  • defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the rights (such as rights of
  • privacy and publicity) of others
  • identify or speculate as to the identity of any anonymous or pseudonymous user
  • attempt to solicit information from any other user under false pretences, for example by
  • attempting phishing-like attacks
  • attempt to solicit personal information from anyone under 18
  • harm minors in any way
  • solicit passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes
  • collect or store other users\' personal data without their consent
  • attempt to gain unauthorised access to the boards.ie administrative areas or interface, to user accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the Boards.ie site, through password mining or any other meanspost irrelevant Material, repeatedly post the same or similar Material or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the boards.ie servers or infrastructure
  • post any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional content, \'junk mail\', \'spam\', \'chain letters\', \'pyramid schemes\', or any other form of commercial publicity
  • post any abusive, harmful, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, indecent, profane, inappropriate, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable Material, except where the content is appropriate to the content of the forum and you have been granted specific permission to do so and subject to our guidelines on said content
  • post Material that contains violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website
  • post Material in respect of any matter that is currently before the courts
  • post Material that could be construed as scandalising the courts
  • post Material that promotes or encourages illegal activity or facilitates or encourages any violation of these Terms of Use
  • post Material that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, rights of privacy or publicity, or other proprietary right or intellectual property right of any party
  • post Material that falsely expresses or implies that such Material is sponsored or endorsed by boards.ie
  • post Material that contains software viruses or harmful programs including but not limited to, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel-bots, computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, disrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment
  • modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion of boards.ie, or use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion of boards.ie, except as expressly authorised in writing by boards.ie
  • reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of boards.ie


Moderators and Administrators

In order to allow for the proper administration of boards.ie we make use of third party moderators and administrators. And in order for them to properly carry out their functions as moderators and administrators they require access to personal information concerning you, your boards.ie account and your activity on the site. Such data is only permitted to be used by our third party moderators and administrators for the purposes of administering the site and cannot be used by them for any other purpose. If you agree to be a moderator or administrator for boards.ie you agree that any user personal information available to you is to be used solely for the purpose of administering the site and will not be used for any other purpose.


  1. You are responsible for your account and its details

As part of the registration process, you will be asked to select a username and password and you will be responsible for all activities occurring under your username and for keeping your password secure. We strongly recommend you do not reuse a password which you also use elsewhere.


6.1 Usernames

We would recommend you choose a pseudonym and do not use your real name (or a derivative of it) when joining boards.ie. You may not select or use a username that:

  • contains "Boards" or otherwise misrepresents your relationship with boards.ie or any other party
  • contains any profanity, is vulgar or offensive, or promotes an illegal activity
  • violates any trademark or other proprietary right
  • misleadingly impersonates someone else
  • Occasionally users may speculate about the identity of anonymous or pseudonymous users. Such speculation is against our Terms of Use and we delete all such posts which are brought to our attention. However please be aware that we cannot guarantee that other users will not be able to determine your identity. There should be no expectation of complete anonymity anywhere on the internet.
  • We reserve the rights to change usernames at our discretion. You cannot change your username after registration unless you become a subscriber.



6.2 Accounts and passwords

Boards.ie reserves the right to log off or deactivate accounts that are inactive for more than 6 years.

You cannot create more than one personal profile. You may not share your account with anyone. You agree not to provide any false information to Boards.ie or to create an account for anyone other than yourself without the express permission of that other person or entity. You agree not to use the account or password of another user and not to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to notify us immediately if you suspect any unauthorised use of your account or access to your password.

Boards Software Limited will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using or accessing your password or account, either with or without your knowledge.

You may be held liable for losses incurred by us or any other party as a result of someone else using or accessing your password or account if you have not taken reasonable steps to keep your password or account secure.

Boards.ie may at its absolute discretion refuse you access to the site, delete posts by you or suspend/terminate your account without prior notice for any reason and you shall not be entitled to any compensation in respect of this. If we disable your account you will not be entitled to create another account without our permission.

These Terms of Use, including, in particular, the indemnities contained herein, shall survive any suspension or termination of your account.


6.3 User status

Please note that your user status will appear in connection with your username. For example, should you receive a warning then a yellow card will appear on the post. Similarly, should you receive an infraction relating to your use of boards.ie, a red card will appear. Should you be banned from using boards.ie, the word \'Banned\' will appear under your username.


6.4 Your interactions with other users

Boards SoftwareLimited has no obligation to verify the identity of any users when they are connected to the site or to monitor Material provided by them.

Your interactions with other users, including payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and the other user.

As with any web-based interaction, we suggest that you use caution and good judgment. If there is a dispute between you and any third party (including any advertiser), we are under no obligation to become involved.

You are encouraged to exercise discretion when providing personal information about yourself on boards.ie. Any personal information which you volunteer in your public profile or post on the forums will be available worldwide to anyone with access to the website.

We recommend you never post your name, address, telephone number, email address or anything else that may lead someone to identify you if this is something you are uncomfortable with.

Please note that certain information (such as photographs) which you may choose to provide might reveal your gender, ethnic origin, nationality, religion and/or sexual orientation.

If you have an active boards.ie account you can request that your Personal Data be edited or deleted. This can be done by sending a Private Message (PM) to “Boards.ie: GDPR” (if for any reason you are unable to access or send a PM please email datarequests@boards.ie and we will get back to you with further instructions).

For closed accounts, all Personal Data will be deleted. Posts made by users whose accounts were subsequently closed cannot be associated with other information held by Boards.ie that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person and as such are not considered Personal Data.

In specific instances where the content of a post contains sensitive data or data that could be used to identify an individual and where the original poster no longer has an active boards.ie account you can request that we edit or delete the post; these requests will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.


  1. Closing your account and our right to ban accounts or remove user privileges

You can close your user account at any time. This process is irreversible and permanent.

Closing your account means we will delete your password, remove any email subscriptions or notifications you may receive, delete all Personal Data we hold about you and turn off your Private Messages. This process does not remove any posts you have made on the site and does not remove the IP address that is captured when each post is submitted.

The posts are retained as they are an intrinsic part of the thread in which they are posted and removing them may make the thread unreadable or make the other posts difficult to understand or follow. The IP addresses captured with each post are retained for anti-spamming purposes. It should be noted that post IP address cannot be linked with other data to identify the individual who made the post as all other data concerning that individual will have been permanently deleted upon account closure.

Boards.ie may at its absolute discretion refuse you access to the site and/or cancel/terminate your user privileges without prior notice for any reason and you shall not be entitled to any compensation in respect of cancellation/termination of your user privileges. If we disable your account you will not be entitled to create another account without our permission.

These Terms of Use, including our proprietary rights, disclaimer of warranties, indemnities, limitations of liability, choice of law and choice of forum, and miscellaneous provisions shall survive any termination of your user privileges.

Without limiting the foregoing, the following will lead to a suspension of your privileges on boards.ie:


  • breaches or violations of these Terms of Use or other Boards.ie guidelines
  • requests by law enforcement or other government agencies
  • unexpected technical issues or problems or
  • extended periods of inactivity

  1. Posting on boards.ie


8.1 Content posted on boards.ie

You are solely responsible for your conduct and any Material that you submit, post, and/or display on boards.ie. You agree not to post Material contrary to these Terms of Use or any applicable law.

Due to the real-time nature of boards.ie, Boards.ie cannot and is not required to review the contents of posted Material, nor does it confirm the validity of information submitted. Boards SoftwareLimited hereby notifies you that it does not actively monitor Material posted by users and, as such, is not responsible for and gives no warranty or representation in relation to Material posted by users.

Because community standards vary and individuals sometimes may not comply with our policies and guidelines, in the process of using boards.ie, you may be exposed to content that you find offensive or objectionable. Users are encouraged to bring any Material they deem offensive or objectionable to the attention of forum moderators by using the Report Post Feature identifying the specific Material you consider is objectionable. You must be logged in to boards.ie in order to report a post. For material that you consider objectionable you will be asked to give your reasons for wanting the Material removed.

Users are informed that if they deem Material to be defamatory or an infringement of their intellectual property rights they should inform boards.ie by emailing hello@boards.ie.


Do not use the Report Post Feature to report defamatory Material or Material which infringes your intellectual property rights.

You will be asked to give your reasons for wanting the Material removed. Please note that the Boards.ie offices are open for business from 9am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday, excluding national and public holidays in the Republic of Ireland. Any notifications received from users outside of the aforementioned hours will only be addressed upon the re-opening of the Boards.ie offices.

If another user defames, abuses, harasses, stalks, or threatens you or otherwise violates your rights on boards.ie please report the post to Boards.ie by emailing hello@boards.ie or by using the Report Post Feature identifying the specific Material you consider is objectionable.

Whilst we do not monitor Material posted by users, we reserve the right to take down Material that comes to our attention via a complaint or otherwise. Members who repeatedly flout our guidelines or these Terms of Use will be barred from joining discussions on boards.ie. You will not necessarily be notified when Material is removed or when you have been banned. Boards.ie will not enter into any correspondence with or about users who have been banned.

Boards.ie reserves the right to immediately ban a user if there has been a serious breach of our guidelines or these Terms of Use. All decisions in relation to these matters are carried out at the sole discretion of Boards.ie.

Boards.ie may be required to disclose your Personal Data (as such term is defined under the General Data Protection Regulation) when legally obliged to do so or when otherwise compelled to disclose such Personal Data – please see our Privacy Notice for further details.

We may, but are not obliged to, remove or limit access to Material from any user which breaches these Terms of Use.

You own all of the Material you post on Boards.ie and we do not claim ownership of that Material. However, we need your permission to be able to display that Material and in some cases to modify it for best display – for different browsers, for our mobile site, and so on.

Consequently, by posting any Material on or through boards.ie, you grant Boards SoftwareLimited a limited licence to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Material. The licence you grant to Boards SoftwareLimited is non-exclusive, royalty free and fully paid, sub-licensable, and worldwide. This licence applies only to use of the Material for the purpose of providing the Boards.ie service. You also waive to the fullest extent permissible by law any moral rights in such Material. You are responsible for making sure that you have all rights to what you post, including the rights necessary for you to grant the licence above.

By posting any Material on boards.ie you represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Material posted by you or otherwise have the right to grant the licence above, and (ii) the posting of the Material does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, intellectual property rights, confidentiality, contract rights or any other rights of any person. You agree to pay all royalties, fees, or any other monies owing any person by reason of any Material posted by you to or through boards.ie.

From time to time we may seek to use users\' Material for the purpose of advertising or marketing boards.ie.

Please do not post any information you are not happy to have publicly viewable on the site.

In order to ensure that threads and conversations are not disrupted, we do not generally remove Material which is uploaded to us. Consequently, you agree that your Material displayed on boards.ie may continue to appear on boards.ie, even after you have terminated your user privileges, closed your account or have had your user privileges terminated by boards.ie. This provision does not affect your rights under data protection law, as set out in our Privacy Notice.

To have original creative Material deleted, please contact the relevant forum moderator (by using the private messaging system available to all registered users when they are logged onto boards.ie) with a direct link to the relevant item and your request. We will delete it within 30 working days of your request, as far as is reasonably possible.

Please note that deletion of original creative Material applies only to Material you have uploaded to boards.ie. If you have posted a link on boards.ie to Material hosted elsewhere (such as Flickr or YouTube) then, as Boards.ie is not the host, you will have to contact the other site to have that Material deleted.

We cannot guarantee that other users will not use the ideas and information that you share. Therefore, if you have an idea or information that you would like to keep confidential and/or don\'t want others to use, you must not post it on boards.ie. We are not responsible for a user\'s misuse or misappropriation of any content or information you post on boards.ie.


8.2 Defamatory Content

Boards.ie operates on a "notice and takedown" basis. If you believe that any content on boards.ie contains a defamatory statement, please notify Boards.ie immediately by emailing hello@boards.ie. Once this notification has been received, Boards.ie will use all reasonable endeavours to remove the defamatory content complained about within a reasonable period of time.

In the case of a genuine grievance which requires a legal response, Boards.ie can only release personal data about any of our members when requested by an investigating member of An Garda Síochána or on receipt of a court order.

Please note, if you threaten legal action against Boards.ie, by extension against Boards SoftwareLimited, your account will be site-banned by an Administrator until such time as the issue is resolved. This is strict site policy and is enforced by all moderators and Administrators.

Please note also that Boards.ie offices are open for business from 9am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday. Take down requests received outside of the aforementioned hours will only be addressed upon the re-opening of Boards.ie offices.


8.3 Content infringing Intellectual Property Rights.

Boards.ie operates on a "notice and takedown" basis. If you believe that any content on boards.ie infringes your intellectual property rights, please notify Boards.ie immediately by emailing hello@boards.ie. Once this notification has been received, Boards.ie will use all reasonable endeavours to remove the infringing content complained about within a reasonable period of time.


8.4 Nuisance posts

Our first line of defence against nuisance posts is to delete them and to ban the user. Nuisance posts include potentially defamatory material, surreptitious advertising, any other posts which breach the posting guidelines and/or our Terms of Use and any form of messages, posts or emails deemed offensive by the administrators or moderators. In addition, where a user recommends the products or services of their employer, they should state their conflict of interest. Where they do not do so, we reserve the right to point out that the user appears to have a conflict of interest.

Where a nuisance poster persists, we reserve the right to use email addresses and IP addresses to identify the user and halt the nuisance.

Boards.ie does not condone personal abuse or harassment towards any member. Boards.ie does not condone defamatory posts directed at any individual or company. If someone else has posted material about you on boards.ie without your permission and you would like to request that it be removed please contact us at hello@boards.ie.


  1. Feedback, suggestions and submissions about boards.ie

From time to time users contact us with feedback, suggestions and submissions about boards.ie and how to improve the site and services we offer. Boards.ie welcomes the input, and the following terms ensure that we can use your contributions to improve boards.ie.

You do not have to submit anything to Boards.ie about boards.ie, but if you do you acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback, or any other submissions to Boards.ie which may improve our products, services, or offerings shall become the property of Boards SoftwareLimited unless otherwise agreed by Boards SoftwareLimited.

By making a submission to boards.ie about boards.ie, you grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, unlimited, assignable, sub licensable, fully paid up and royalty-free right to Boards SoftwareLimited to copy, prepare derivative works from, improve, distribute, publish, remove, retain, add, and use and commercialise, in any way now known or in the future discovered, anything that you submit to Boards.ie, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or to any third parties.

If you do not want to grant Boards SoftwareLimited the rights set out above, please do not make 

submissions to Boards.ie.


  1. Content of advertisements on boards.ie

You acknowledge that Material presented to you by boards.ie, advertisers, or other users may be protected by copyrights, trademarks, patents or other proprietary rights or other intellectual property right and laws. All copyright and other proprietary notices in the Material must be left intact.


  1. Links to and content of third party sites


11.1 Links to other websites

Boards.ie contains links to other websites operated by third parties over whom Boards SoftwareLimited has no control. Such links are provided for your convenience only and Boards Software accepts no responsibility or liability in respect of the content or use of other websites. Such links do not amount to an endorsement or recommendation of these sites by Boards Software. Boards Software Limited does not exercise any control or supervision over the content of these linked sites.

Boards Software Limited is not responsible for the content or accuracy of or for the opinions expressed in these third party websites and these websites are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by Boards.ie.

Some of these sites may contain materials that are objectionable, unlawful, or inaccurate. The fact that these links appear does not mean that Boards.ie endorses these third party sites or services.

If you do decide to leave the boards.ie site and access third party sites you do so at your own risk. Third party sites linked via the boards.ie site are not covered by these Terms of Use or the Boards.ie Privacy Notice.


11.2 Links to boards.ie and Associated Websites

Boards.ie and its parent company and associated companies permit third parties to link to boards.ie so long as the link: (a) is not in any way misleading; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party\'s site.

By linking to boards.ie you hereby authorise Boards.ie to link to any website owned or controlled by you.


11.3 Third Party Content

The inclusion of any content from other sites, either quoted directly or linked to ("Third Party Content") on boards.ie does not imply any affiliation or endorsement of such Third Party Content by Boards SoftwareLimited.

You understand that by using boards.ie you may be exposed to Third Party Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable.

Because Boards.ie does not control third party sites, you agree that Boards SoftwareLimited is not responsible for any such Third Party Content and that this is the sole responsibility of the person from which such Third Party Content originated, and Boards.ie has no obligation to monitor such Third Party Content.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Boards Software reserves the right, but shall have no obligation, to pre-screen, filter, remove, refuse to accept, post, display or transmit any Third Party Content in whole or part at any time for any reason or no reason with or without notice and with no liability of any kind.


  1. Intellectual property

All intellectual property rights in the website design, text, graphics, the selection and arrangement thereof and all software vest in Boards SoftwareLimited unless otherwise indicated. Boards Software reserves all of its rights.

The above does not include Materials which are the property of advertisers or users.

You acknowledge that all trademarks, trade names, service marks, rights (registered or unregistered) in any designs, applications for any of the foregoing; trade or business names; innovations, inventions whether or not capable of protection by patent or registration, registered design and topography rights; know-how, including data specifications, drawings and instructions; secret formulae and processes; rights protecting goodwill and reputation; database rights and rights under licences and consents in relation to such things, rights in the nature of unfair competition rights, and rights to sue for passing of and all rights or forms of protection of a similar nature to any of the foregoing or having equivalent effect anywhere in the world and all copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property rights in and relating to boards.ie (collectively "Intellectual Property") are solely owned by Boards Software Limited.

You may not reproduce, publish, transmit, distribute, display, modify, create derivative works from, sell or participate in any sale of, or exploit in any way, in whole or in part, the Material at boards.ie without the written permission of Boards SoftwareLimited.


Advertising on boards.ie


  1. Advertising and Verified Representatives.

Boards.ie is a free service offered to our users and, as such, Boards.ie solely relies on revenue generated from advertisements served on the site to be financially sustainable and continue in business. Therefore, in agreeing to these Terms of Use you agree that Boards SoftwareLimited may serve advertisements on site or work with a third party to serve the advertisements, including personalised ads, and may implement anonymised site analytics functionality on the site. Advertisements placed on boards.ie may include but are not limited to banner ads, paid links, pop-up windows, buttons and sponsorships. These advertisements use "non personally identifiable information". They do not use personal data about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. For further information, please see our Cookie Policy.

You agree that Boards SoftwareLimited has the right to run such advertisements and promotions on boards.ie.


13.1 For users:

Boards.ie does not control services which are supplied by third parties and the inclusion of advertising or sponsorship does not imply endorsement or recommendation of the third party by us or any association with that third party. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that Material complies with international and national law. Boards SoftwareLimited does not give any warranty, guarantee nor make any representation regarding any advertisement or any merchandise, product or service offered or provided by third party companies advertising or interacting on boards.ie.

You may report any advertisement or content you feel is unsuitable for boards.ie to us, on the understanding that its removal is at our sole discretion.

You can choose to opt in or opt out of the serving of personalised advertisements on boards.ie, however you cannot opt out of the serving of non-personalised ads. To change your preferences regarding personalised ads please go to http://www.youronlinec...m/ie/your-ad-choices. Please note that these changes will apply not just to boards.ie but to other sites you may also visit.

Your correspondence or business dealing with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers or third parties found on or through boards.ie, including payment for and delivery of related goods or services, and any other representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser or third party.

You agree that Boards SoftwareLimited shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers or third parties on boards.ie.




13.2 Commercial Activity, Verified Representatives and "Talk to..." Forums:

You must seek permission from Boards SoftwareLimited before carrying out any commercial activity on boards.ie. Any person or company attempting to advertise or otherwise promote themselves who has not been authorised by us will have their user accounts banned and their posts deleted. By using boards.ie for any commercial activity you agree to the following additional terms.

Boards.ie provides a platform for commercial representatives ("Verified Representatives") to engage with users on boards.ie. We allow authorised Verified Representatives to post relevant, appropriate content to our forums or blog on the understanding that we make no guarantee of traffic, engagement and/or uptake by Boards.ie users. We reserve the right to choose whom we allow to take part.

All content posted by Verified Representatives must be in compliance with these Terms of Use and our guidelines. The charter of each forum must also be followed in relation to the type of content and level of commercial interaction which is acceptable there. The charter will be displayed prominently in the relevant forum.

We reserve the right to remove any Material that contravenes these Terms of Use, our guidelines, other boards.ie rules or forum charters.

By becoming a Verified Representative, you agree that:

  1. You are responsible for your presence on boards.ie, for your adherence to the rules and guidelines on boards.ie and for the content you post. Boards SoftwareLimited is not responsible for the content posted by Verified Representatives
  2. You are subject to the rules of boards.ie (including these Terms of Use) as well as the forum charters and boards.ie guidelines. Your presence as an advertiser or Verified Representative does not grant you any privileges to break rules in the forums.
  3. You will use the personal information you receive from boards.ie users only for the purpose of answering a question, resolving an issue or other specified action. Under no circumstances will you use this data for any marketing activity without the express permission of the boards.ie user.
  4. You will make it clear to users what user data you are going to use and how you will use, display, or share that data.
  5. You will delete all user data you received from boards.ie if we disable your account or ask you to do so
  6. You will provide customer support. You will make it easy for users to contact you. You will deal with any questions or issues on thread where appropriate. You will not try to evade answering reasonable queries. We can also share your email address with users if appropriate, and with your prior consent
  7. You will not show ads on your boards.ie presence except with the prior permission of Boards Software Limited
  8. You will not misrepresent your relationship with boards.ie to others.
  9. You may use the logos we make or issue a press release or other public statement relating to your use of boards.ie only with the prior written permission of Boards.ie
  10. Boards SoftwareLimited can issue a press release describing our relationship with you.
  11. Boards SoftwareLimited can measure your content, data and interaction on Boards.ie for any purpose, including commercial (such as for case studies and presentations).
  12. For all enquiries about advertising or commercial activity on boards.ie, please contact hello@boards.ie 


Rights of Boards.ie


Our rights and responsibilities


14.1 Liability and accuracy:

Boards Software Limited does not give any warranty or make any representation as to the accuracy or completeness of the information contained on boards.ie. Material posted on boards.ie is not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. Boards SoftwareLimited therefore disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such Material by any user, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents. Although rigorous protocols are applied to boards.ie we do not make any warranty that boards.ie is free from infection by viruses or anything else that has contaminating or disruptive properties. Under no circumstances shall we be held liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces, or causes beyond our reasonable control, including, without limitation, Internet failures, computer equipment failures, telecommunication equipment failures, other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labour disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labour or materials, fires, floods, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, non-performance of third parties, or loss of or fluctuations in electricity or other utility supply.

  1. Boards SoftwareLimited does not give any warranty or make any representation as to the identity of any user on boards.ie. Any use of, or reliance placed on, any content or Materials posted to boards.ie by any user, or obtained by you through boards.ie, is at your own risk.
  2. Boards.ie may offer Verified Representative Accounts to individuals that represent organisations. We may obtain certain documentation to reasonably establish authenticity and to satisfy ourselves of these individuals\' identity and authority to represent organisations. We do not give any warranty or make any representation that Verified Representatives express the views or opinions of the organisations which they represent. Users who purport to represent organisations, but do not have a Verified Representative account are operating outside of these Terms of Use and have not attempted to establish their authenticity with us.
  3. Users of boards.ie should satisfy themselves as to the accuracy, completeness and reliability of the information contained on boards.ie and, where applicable, as to the identity of other users.
  4. Under no conditions and in no event shall Boards SoftwareLimited be liable for any direct or indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages or loss howsoever arising, (including but not limited to negligence or breach of these Terms of Use or otherwise) or for any loss of data, profit, revenue, goodwill or business howsoever caused even if that loss or damage was foreseeable by us, or the possibility of it was brought to our attention.

  5. 14.2 Users:
  6. Boards SoftwareLimited may at its sole discretion for any reason (i) disable or deactivate your account, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of boards.ie, (ii) remove and discard any posts or Material within any thread or anywhere on boards.ie or (iii) shut down a discussion, thread or forum that you are involved in, with or without notice, and with no liability of any kind to you.

  • 14.3 Availability of service:
  • Boards SoftwareLimited may at its sole discretion and at any time, discontinue temporarily or permanently providing boards.ie, or any part thereof, with or without notice.
  • You agree that any termination of access to boards.ie under any provision of these Terms of Use may be effected without notice, and acknowledge and agree that Boards SoftwareLimited may immediately deactivate or delete your account and all related information and files in your account and/or bar any further access to such files or boards.ie.
  • Boards.ie may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or other reasons. We accept no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in transmission, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of user communications.
  • Where possible, we will use reasonable efforts to give users fair notice of technical difficulties or termination or suspension of their access to boards.ie. However you agree that Boards SoftwareLimited shall not be liable to you or any third party for any inability to access boards.ie, termination or suspension of access to boards.ie or modification of the service provided by boards.ie.

  • 14.4 Indemnity and waiver
  • You agree to indemnify, defend (at the request of Boards SoftwareLimited), and hold harmless Boards SoftwareLimited our investors, successors, assigns, subsidiaries, affiliates, co-branders, contractors, employees, servants, moderators, third-party advertisers, technology providers, service providers or other partners, and each of their respective officers, directors, agents, shareholders, employees and representatives, from and against any third party claim, demand, loss, damage, cost, or liability including reasonable legal expenses, made or brought by any third party due to or arising out of:
  • Your use of boards.ie or any part thereof
  • The violation of these Terms of Use, our Privacy Statement, our guidelines by you
  • The infringement or misappropriation by you, or a third party using your computer, of any account or password to access and/or use boards.ie
  • The infringement of any intellectual property rights of any person or entity

You acknowledge that your use of boards.ie including any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through boards.ie is at your own discretion and risk and you agree to waive any right to bring any claim or action against Boards SoftwareLimited, our investors, successors, assignees, subsidiaries, affiliates, co-branders, contractors, employees, servants, third-party advertisers, technology providers, service providers or other partners, and each of their respective officers, directors, agents, shareholders, employees and representatives for any loss, damage, costs or injury arising from such use.


15. Entire agreement

These Terms of Use and our Privacy Notice make up the entire agreement between you and Boards.ie and Boards SoftwareLimited and supersede any prior agreement.


16. No partnerships/joint ventures

Nothing in these Terms of Use, our Privacy Statement and/or our Comments Policy shall be construed as forming a partnership or joint venture with you. No third party shall have the right or ability to create any obligation on our behalf.


17. Governing law

The agreement shall be governed by Irish law and you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish courts in all matters regarding this agreement and your use of boards.ie.


18. Severability

If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be void, invalid or unenforceable the remaining provisions will continue to be of full force and effect.


19. No waiver

Any amendment to or waiver of these Terms of Use must be in writing and signed by an authorised representative of Boards SoftwareLimited. Failure to enforce any provision of these Terms of Use shall not amount to a waiver of such provision.


21. Additional information

These Terms of Use should be read in conjunction with the Boards.ie Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy.


22. Contacting Boards.ie

You can contact us in relation to these Terms of Use in the following ways:

Using our contact page: Contact pageEmail: hello@boards.ie

By post: Boards.ie Limited, 4th Floor, Latin Hall, Golden Lane, Dublin 8

We welcome your feedback on this document and thank you for using Boards.ie!

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