No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

straight · 08-04-2026 01:34PM

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Money shmoney. It's only an issue when you dont have enough of it.

Along with great power comes great responsibility. I have no interest in either myself.

emaherx · 08-04-2026 02:05PM

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I don't think many here would defend Larry either.

I wouldn't be pushed about having his bank balance to be honest, I like money as much as the next guy but that's more than I'd over need or be able to spend.

Dinzee Conlee · 08-04-2026 02:21PM

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If its just money you're after - sell the farm - most likely you'll be a millionaire, loadsa money… 😉

Siamsa Sessions · 08-04-2026 03:26PM

Remember that money makes no sense until you spend it.

older by the day · 08-04-2026 06:34PM

Money isn't everything, but it sure takes the pinch out of being poor

It's gas, when i was young, I didn't have much money for drink and fags. Now I have money, but I gave up smoking and don't have time between work and family to go drinking. It's a tough station 😀

Lime Tree Farm · 08-04-2026 06:57PM

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That sound lyrical, it only needs a tune.

RockOrBog · 08-04-2026 08:02PM

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The Mangled Badger, it's a Clare tune handed down

Anto_Meath · 08-04-2026 08:05PM

@older by the day in the same boat myself with kids and that seldom get a night out. Late teens early 20's done at least 4 nights a week out. Was saying it to that lad doing Bord Bia audit as he is in the same situation. Guess its the circle of life....

davidk1394 · 08-04-2026 08:12PM

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I prefer Mammies Horse is Dying myself

whelan2 · 08-04-2026 08:34PM

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Not worth it to have a hangover the next day and not knowing what's going to happen that day,,especially with kids.

Cushtie · 08-04-2026 09:09PM

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Had to give it up about 15 years ago when the young lad came along, could not take the hangovers after even a few pints. Gave it up for a few months I said then and didn't bother with it since.

FintanMcluskey · 08-04-2026 09:40PM

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The stoat that ate me sandals is a better tune imo.

Some useless info, banish misfortune is the tune that's on repeat.

lmk123 · 08-04-2026 09:52PM

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did the same a few years ago, it hasn’t bothered me for 2 minutes since giving it up, there’s been 2 emergencies at home since then, a lot to be said for being able to hop into a car at a moments notice

Tileman · 08-04-2026 10:40PM

yea I rarely drink now. Just can’t handle the hangovers . Find it affects my sleep badly aswell. Would be a few days before I can sleep properly after drinking. So only an odd occasion I go now.

bogman_bass · 08-04-2026 10:49PM

I’m (kinda) the opposite m. Didn’t drink until I was well into my 30’s.
I’ll have an odd nice whiskey now and one of the lads or I will host each other for a poker night and a few drinks. That only happens about 3 times a year.

in saying that when I was younger I was in a pub at least twice a week. I just wasn’t drinking

50HX · 08-04-2026 10:50PM

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Same here, just not worth it with smallies in the house..tis the following day i'd want a baby sitter.

However having said all that back in tne day

Anto_Meath · 08-04-2026 11:32PM

@whelan2 yes, the thought of a hangover is enough to put the thought of drink out of my head fairly handy now...

Kevhog1988 · 08-04-2026 11:59PM

Gave up the drink myself a few years ago.. have had a few drinks since them but nothing really major.

Packrat · 09-04-2026 02:38AM

I posted last night whilst eating the dinner at 1am after a days farming... I thought that was bad.

Just in the door tonight 2am after a "days work" which should have been over at about 6pm but only now over those fcuking tramps blocking the roads.

Nearly 6 hours to get from Cork to Dublin today with a bus through every small town. Tacho card nearly on fire. Had to leave the bus in Dublin. Drove a car home instead and same story on the way back except the tunnel closed as well (for roadworks) so up through Cork.

These people are just thugs on a jolly, - no better than the crowd robbing sports shops in the Dublin Riots.

They'll do nothing for any of us using diesel except destroy any goodwill there was in gov.

I'm a farmer who went out to do a days work today after doing 2 days in one yesterday to make it possible. I had to come home because I've small kids to mind and cattle inside to feed in the morning. The family business I work from runs mostly diesel vehicles. They are hurting and worried.

The difference is that we went to work today to be hampered hindered and our fuel wasted by these pr1cks on a jolly.

Absolute scum of the earth the lot of them. Their trucks, buses and tractors should be take off them and sold for scrap.

farawaygrass · 09-04-2026 07:34AM

I’m in the same boat as the rest who gave up drink except I might go to the pub 6 times a year. A couple of times I’ll drink a few whiskeys and find I don’t be near as hungover. Four or five pints can have me in a hoop the day after.
also the cost of going out. You’d want to bring more than a fifty even going to the local.
it goes to show how drinking culture is changing in Ireland, going by this thread alone. Country pubs were busy every night of the week back in the 90’s and 00’s. How did people function!

whelan2 · 09-04-2026 09:05AM

Don't know when I last bought a pint, we go to local often enough for our tea but dont drink. A friend of oh sent over a pint of Heineken one evening we were there. Thought it ruined the food, enjoy it much more without the alcohol. I drank it though

roosterman71 · 09-04-2026 09:59AM

Same as ye all on the drink. Had a pint the Sunday before last when we all stopped in Bloomfield Hotel for the dinner (only stopped cos the lads wanted to go on the slide outside). Before that I had 1 pint over Christmas when out with the lads. Only had the one cos I was just finished antibiotics. Some days I get a woeful thirst but it goes away. I always said to the Mrs that when we move into the new house I was gonna go for 2 or 3 every Thursday night and read the journal. I'm over 6 months in the house now and haven't gone yet! Last big night out was in November when I was in Sweden. The day after was a write off and the flight home a holy terror.

I got caught in the protests this morning too on the motorway into Athlone. Was a standstill at the McDonalds on the motorway but then moved slowly along. A huge amount of people were bombing up the hard shoulder, most in big cars. I ducked off at the Kilmartins exit and headed into town. Was no problem once ya got off the motorway. Crossing back over the motorway a few minutes later there was no sign of the protest so must have stopped around Kilmartins area. Didn't see how many or what was involved in it but I reckon there wasn't many. Wouldn't take many to block the road though.

patsy_mccabe · 09-04-2026 10:41AM

I very rarely drink now myself. I could often be out 5 nights in a row when I was younger. Once you hit 40, the hangovers are not worth it. I'd often have the odd can of Guinness here at night, but even gone too lazy for that now.

Sad in a way to see the demise of the country pub. They were much more than drinking spots. They were the focal point of the local community. My Dad never drank but he was a regular in the local around Christmas playing cards. Same for a lot of people. We don't have the good weather for the outdoor get-togethers you'd see across Europe.

whelan2 · 09-04-2026 10:42AM

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We flew home from Australia years ago dying. Middle seats of the 4 seats. Never again.

Siamsa Sessions · 09-04-2026 11:06AM

Ah lads and lassies, am I the only one still enjoying a pint in the pub?

Might be only 1-2 nights/week for 1-2 pints but it's an oasis for me. No young lads looking for anything, no jobs being done in the yard, etc. I find it a great way to reset and tune out for an hour. It's probably a psychological thing - if I'm in the pub, then everything at home must be OK. Or if something was wrong at home, I wouldn't be sitting with a pint of Guinness in front of me.

I'd have 1-2 cans of draught Guinness at home some nights too. Never more than that or I'd feel it in the morning.

I had enough hangovers back in the day (I was a barman in Lanzarote for 8 years!) but I'm fairly sure my hangover days are behind me now. A few pints or cans every week won't kill me, especially when it helps keeps me sane.

enricoh · 09-04-2026 11:28AM

Same as that, go down the local once or twice a week for a few. I love the randomness of who's about n what I end up chatting about.

There's a few brilliant musicians drink there n if the mood takes them they belt away.

Though there's probably half the people in the pub than there was 20 years ago n the population has doubled locally. Sitting in for months on end one eye watching Netflix crap and the other the phone I think I'd die of boredom!

_Brian · 09-04-2026 12:34PM

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Have a pint most friday nights in local Shibin.. pints are free, by invitation only… very nice atmosphere, id usually have two and toddle off home.. Enjoy a glass of wine at home with Sunday dinner..

Kevhog1988 · 09-04-2026 12:59PM

Just been through the protest in sligo on our way to a (non emergency) hospital appointment. As soon as I told the rear vehicle we were heading to the hospital we were sent up the hard shoulder and even given directions to avoid any other locations.

Re: above poster calling them rats, tramps etc I simply can't agree with you. In my day job I do all the estimating/pricing on the company I work for projects. The rise in fuel is absolutely unprecedented and I honestly don't understand how smaller subcontractors are still working. They are hurting and something needs to be done before the handbrake is pulled up on all work and we are in a massive recession.

The lads i met ate ordinary decent people trying to keep the lights on in rural Ireland and food on all our tables 👏👏.

_Brian · 09-04-2026 01:22PM

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Delighted to hear common sense is being applied.

whelan2 · 09-04-2026 02:19PM

Was A post on mammy forum I'm on earlier, obviously if they don't have a fuel card, they're paying cash to keep their figures low to claim more grants , wtf

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