No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

Nekarsulm · 03-02-2026 10:09PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124203192#Comment_124203192

Good stuff, I'll get on it tomorrow.

It was ACOT when I did the thing... :D

Limestone Cowboy · 03-02-2026 10:38PM

Live on a small narrow little L road here and was up in the shed getting ready for pouring concrete in the morning earlier and heard a big bang up the road a bit. Went to investigate and a courier van was after crashing into a local lady bringing the children home from school. She had completely pulled in off the road to the point where a lorry would pass her but the courier had skidmarks left for 70 or 80 meters and completely crossed the road and hit her head on. He must have been doing some speed. The poor lady got her face rearranged from the airbags and broke her leg aswell and it took 2.5 hours for an ambulance to come. She was screaming with pain and blacking out a bit and only for my better half has a client who is a doctor and off duty today and she begged them to come she would have been left sitting there for the two and a half hours without any medical intervention stuck in the car. I know we live in a backward enough spot but I'd damn nearly be in Dublin in 2 and a half hours. You wouldn't want be dying anyway waiting that long for an ambulance.

White Clover · 03-02-2026 10:45PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124203824#Comment_124203824

Hope that lady recovers well and is home soon. Fair play to you and your other half and the off duty doctor too.

All the millions in tax take and we have a third world health service in some areas. If I was you I would get on to all Government TD's in your area and redden their ears. 2.5 hours waiting on an Ambulance isn't good enough in 2026.

lmk123 · 03-02-2026 10:46PM

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A lot of the reason for the long waiting times for ambulances is people calling the ambulances for no need whatsoever. If you ever talk to a nurse in A&E they have some stories to tell, the time and resources that’s wasted is unreal.

naughto · 03-02-2026 10:56PM

They think they will be seen quicker if they are brought in on ambulance this is far from the truth an just blocking up the ambulance ad they can't do hand over if the place is full

50HX · 03-02-2026 11:05PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124203855#Comment_124203855

This 100%...pity Prime time for e.g don't cover thus.

The last one I heard that was prob the worst of all was people who live near a hospital would call an ambulance & use it as a taxi service to get home...i.e jump out at a & e and walk the short distance home...apparently can't get taxi's now on busy nights.

lmk123 · 03-02-2026 11:25PM

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GP’s sending in everything and anyone on a bank holiday Friday, Granny dumping - dropping in an elderly person on a Friday / Saturday and leaving them there for a few days while they go off for the weekend and just don’t answer the phone. I could go on for the night writing stories I’ve heard 😂

tabby aspreme · 03-02-2026 11:42PM

Michael Fitzmaurice wiping the floor with John Gibbons on Virgin TV a few minutes ago

Jb1989 · 03-02-2026 11:58PM

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TeagascSaysNo · 04-02-2026 01:11AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124203824#Comment_124203824

It's maddening, we have so much money to throw at everything and anything but we can't have an ambulance service, a&e, metro, flood defenses etc. I heard them on the news this evening talking about expedited processes for flood defenses - all talk talk talk for decades but they just are unable to deliver, it would drive you mad if you paid too much attention!

Packrat · 04-02-2026 03:01AM

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On the courier: I had a right good row with a English cnut who was delivering our L road, (grass in the middle) and passing my gate regularly doing about 80kmph a few years back when my youngest was about 4. I stopped him, politely asked his name, wrote it into the phone, then told him I'd pull him out of the van and kick 7 types of sh1t out of him if he ever drove past my gate at that speed again.

The wife gave me hell over it, said all her deliveries would be kicked around before arriving but I stuck to my guns. I reported the prick to his company as well, which wouldn't normally be my form.

About a month later he demolished a concrete garden wall locally one day and that was the last we saw of the tramp.

Most of them are absolute scum from start to finish.

I hope your neighbour recovers ok and gets well paid.

_Brian · 04-02-2026 08:29AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124203189#Comment_124203189

That’s mad money. Think it was €8 last time I used it.

Castlekeeper · 04-02-2026 08:42AM

We've two dotes of DPD courier drivers, and the Fasttrack lad was excellent too.

Packrat · 04-02-2026 09:16AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124204287#Comment_124204287

Cherish them. I've found the Fasttrack ones to be the worst. One DPD last was ok but he got out of the game.

whelan2 · 04-02-2026 10:13AM

Some of the amazon drivers are really bad. We've 2 dogs. Oh tied a big tub on the wall at the front of the house with amazon sprayed on it so they wouldn't even have to get out of the van, just throw the delivery into it. 1 in 3 drivers will ring me looking for assistance. Caught one of them ringing the other day as he was driving up our lane.

davidk1394 · 04-02-2026 11:03AM

Local DPD driver here is terrified of dogs, he never got bitten or attacked by one but from all the stories he heard he built up a fear. I told him recently his in the wrong profession so. My sister has a Ring doorbell, recently she got a notification of said driver pulling up, put down the window said "fúck this shít" and throws two parcels out the passenger window of the van and hopped off the front door. I was impressed by his accuracy given the distance he threw them. Best part was there wasn't a dog in site

patsy_mccabe · 04-02-2026 11:09AM

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That's shocking. Horrific for all involved, poor kids. Did the ambulance come from Galway or Ennis? Did the Guards come to the scene?

green daries · 04-02-2026 11:16AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124204181#Comment_124204181

CCant Agree more with you. you’ll actually have a fair idea what a lads like by the way he drives round the place we had two complete pricks here over the years one got an organised earful of me and three neighbours in the one week we all had young kids and businesses on the same narrow twisty Rd. Put a halt to his gallop after but the second lad was just a tramp who got ran eventually for crashing the van

Lime Tree Farm · 04-02-2026 11:18AM

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same here with Fastway (closed now I think), claiming in an noreply email they had delivered, nobody home, collect at the depot.

Water John · 04-02-2026 11:30AM

Fastway drivers were paid on a commission basis only. They're main revenue was on collections, not delivery. Hence the speed. I once lost a 20kg bag of grass seed, the other five arrived. I presume a hole came in the bag and he just fecked it over a ditch.

dmakc · 04-02-2026 11:48AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124204181#Comment_124204181

I pulled a DHL lad out of a ditch on our similar road a few years ago. Never saw the drain beside road. Drove off continuing his delivery you'd never know he had been almost sideways

bogman_bass · 04-02-2026 12:51PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124204181#Comment_124204181

I blame the courier companies. Drivers are under woeful pressure to get a crazy number of deliveries out in a day

Castlekeeper · 04-02-2026 01:31PM

What's an amazon van? Buying shite off such exploitative business models is what's creating the very problem down the line in the supply chains.

It's back to the old saying;

"If you're not paying, someone else is ."

The van driver is one of the someone else's unfortunately.

Castlekeeper · 04-02-2026 01:33PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124204733#Comment_124204733

That's interesting about Fastway, I used to have an account and a few collections with them, maybe that's why my lad was sound!

patsy_mccabe · 04-02-2026 02:28PM

There's a reason Fastway went out of business. They delivered some chairs here once. Threw them in over the wall into the lawn. There was a book inside in them for someone back west Clare. Dropped off another time and when we told them it wasn't for here, the driver goes " well it says it is for here, on my computer" and just drove off.

DPD guy, we're on first name terms. Nice guy and very professional.

naughto · 04-02-2026 03:41PM

How is the protest in board bia going I see on my socials lads in with bal

Limestone Cowboy · 04-02-2026 07:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124204644#Comment_124204644

Galway they tried to come over a mountain green road even though they were specifically told not to go that way because Google maps will lead you that way. Its hard enough travel it in a jeep. Ya guards came and closed the road and documented the whole thing.

Limestone Cowboy · 04-02-2026 07:22PM

Last load of panic in.

straight · 04-02-2026 08:22PM

Few lads around here getting the air ambulance. Great job. Saves alot of lives.

Siamsa Sessions · 04-02-2026 08:42PM

Got this message into a WhatsApp group last night. “Last week” was 29-Jan and it was raining heavily the same evening. Is this the new normal for U11s in small rural clubs?

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