No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

_Brian · 06-05-2026 09:50AM

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That’s madness.
thankfulky we don’t have that problem. I rang last week for an appointment for my daughter and was offered an afternoon appointment same day.

Bass Reeves · 06-05-2026 09:50AM

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By the sound of it his better half priced the job. Hope she was paying out of her own money. While I power hose the footpaths th8e ones we have are paved with stone, concrete will ravel from constant power hosing , I do not power hose walls, maybe give a distance spray to wash muck put on from power hosing paths. The power hose will takes off paint. Seen tarmac runied by using a power hose on it continuously. Similar with slates on a roof.

Its nuts the way people are spending money. Was in the shop yesterday the lad ahead of me 8 cans of red bull, three refills for a vape , 10 euro plus on the lotto and a bar of dairy milk.

I felt mean with my two chicken gugons and a tea......and normally I would not be buying the tea either

whelan2 · 06-05-2026 09:55AM

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The alternative is out of hours doctor this evening or a and e

Siamsa Sessions · 06-05-2026 10:14AM

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Something will have to give - money can't keep falling out of the sky. It always will for some but for most people something will have to give.

There's 5 places to get a coffee within 200m of each other on a main road near me. It's not a village - just a Tirlan co-op, a petrol station, and a pub on the side of a busy road. But there's 2 horse-boxes selling coffee as well as the Centra that's part of Tirlan, the petrol station, and the pub where you can spend your money on coffee (and a little bar of chocolate or protein-oats or whatever to go with it). How much money can a nation spend on take-away coffee?

New cars are another thing. I was looking to change my car recently but decided against it. Repayments were a big part of that decision. €10k of a loan would be €200/month for 5 years. And you wouldn't get much for €10k these days. I'm not sure how people manage twice and three times that for their new cars. Best of luck to them and I'd begrudge no one nothing, but it's not for me.

I struggled thru a few David Williams podcasts in the last few weeks. He makes a few valid points but they're buried in 25 mins of waffle and annoying banter with his buddy. The main thing I got from him is that Govt spending is gone to f*ck and they're throwing out free money everywhere.

Where will the coffee docks and new cars be when that dries up?

Anto_Meath · 06-05-2026 10:15AM

@whelan2 I hear my brother on about the same craic at the doctors he goes to. Down at 8 am to que for an appointment later on in the day. Then he said when you get in half the clients are the same medical card holders that are always in it. There are two odd balls over the road from him, his guess is they spend more time in the doctors & the chemist than they do at home.

Our doctor you ring between 8:30 & 9 for an appointment & you will always get 1.

I ve also seen with the kids ringing in the middle of the day, doctors would ring you back and sometimes say come on over no problem.

I can't understand how asking sick people to que outside a doctors makes any sense.

Its mad if I ring a vet & I don't have one within an hour it would be extremely unusual.

carrollsno1 · 06-05-2026 10:18AM

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Where this free money is going is another thing, there's sweet **** all of it going to the average paye worker from what I can see and I presume it's the same for most self employed too!

Jb1989 · 06-05-2026 10:23AM

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There is one bolox there and it's not the power washing man.

visatorro · 06-05-2026 10:35AM

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Just out of interest but what benefit can come from reporting a GP for having too many patients. Are they to blame for having to handle the extra volume of 'patients' they are asked to see

enricoh · 06-05-2026 10:43AM

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A friend works in roadstone in Dublin. The new thing now is changing the roof tiles on the house as the old ones look weathered n stick on terracotta colour or whatever. Roof perfectly fine,no leaks etc.

If I was a roofer out pricing that I would pick the most outrageous figure I could think of! He said everything went up 10% 2 weeks ago to start with.

Dinzee Conlee · 06-05-2026 12:38PM

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Not if you’re power washing, seems to be savage money there 🙂

On a more serious note - is it the smaller/quicker jobs, done by one man shows (like power washing) that are getting cash, are they coining it at the minute?

Admittedly they’d be the first to feel it when things go bad…

carrollsno1 · 06-05-2026 01:35PM

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Power washing man mentioned above wasn't paye and he was hardly putting it through an RCT either.

Maybe he's getting a few handouts from the social aswell who knows. More power to him for having a bit of get up and go about him....

J.O. Farmer · 06-05-2026 03:50PM

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I'm similar with the car. I'm looking at 10k cars. I have a 2011 mondeo and so while a smaller car might do me I don't want to go down from it. I need automatic, prefer diesel and at €10K I'm probably looking at a car 10-12 years old and 150k miles on the clock.

My problem is there's nearly twice the 150k miles on the mondeo so it's a matter of when not if I decide to change.

blue5000 · 06-05-2026 04:08PM

Does anyone know how long after registering calves they show up on your herd profile? I registered a few last week and no sign of them yet. We are doing the genomics at birth, could that be the delay, waiting for samples to be tested?

roosterman71 · 06-05-2026 04:20PM

I just spent €1100 on my 14 year old car. Needed new discs, callipers, and brake pads all round. All bushens in the back, wishbone on front right and all anti roll bar bits and bobs on the back. Plus a full service. Has 280000km on it and I bought it new when I was young and hairier back in Jan 2012. Would love to upgrade but a) there's nothing out there that apeals to me and b) what I have is still going strong mechanically.

In other news/questions. I was out today taking old slates off an old house to put on new ones as part of fixing the place up. Found 3 nests dotted about on the wall plate and up in the rafters. All with chicks in. If I carry one reroofing they'd be closed in and trapped. I don't want to disturb them. How long do ya think I'd have to leave access for the birds to go in and out before I could close it up?

whelan2 · 06-05-2026 04:24PM

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Up to 2 weeks with genomic scheme

whelan2 · 06-05-2026 04:26PM

It's illegal to interfere with a nest with chicks/eggs in it., youll have to wait until they leave

Jb1989 · 06-05-2026 04:33PM

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What car is it

Water John · 06-05-2026 04:37PM

Think they should be out of it, less than3 weeks.

roosterman71 · 06-05-2026 05:38PM

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Accord

carrollsno1 · 06-05-2026 06:19PM

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Put about the same into my 12 avensis between cylinders for the clutch and a few other bits and bobs pre nct. Just hit 330,000km and theres still a lot left in her yet. Bought it at 160,000km for €7.5k 4 years ago yesterday as it happens i think.

wrangler · 06-05-2026 06:31PM

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Some doctors take on extra patients through greed, every extra patient is extra money.

What whelan has to go through is bonkers, I phoned my doctor today at 11.30 and was asked could I be there at 11.45, I can assure you I went straight from the field, they did an ECG and blood tests and I left the bloods into the hospital at one oclock.

We've two GP practises in Kilbeggan and both are saying that they aren't looking for new patients

bogman_bass · 06-05-2026 07:22PM

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The problem with the queuing is that it’s both the side and the result of the problem. A couple people queue to get in first at so they can’t take phone bookings so people get annoyed and start queueing.
It’s a cycle.
very hard to stop it once it starts though

whelan2 · 06-05-2026 07:57PM

If you need an appointment badly though you should be able to get one.

whelan2 · 06-05-2026 07:58PM

Went to carnaross mart today for the first time ever, wouldn't want to be rushing back anytime soon

_Brian · 06-05-2026 08:31PM

jez I’d say there’s some stress among the passengers on that cruise ship. I heard they were all restricted to their rooms.

Austinbrick · 06-05-2026 08:52PM

Still on a rusty nail last week. Went up thru the well and broke the skin.

Rang the doctor and had a tetanus injection within half an hour. Fair play to them.Now , it was 4.55pm when I rang. The appointments were over and doctor was still in surgery.

Austinbrick · 06-05-2026 08:52PM

Stood

FintanMcluskey · 06-05-2026 08:54PM

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Please god they at least have wine and beer

Austinbrick · 06-05-2026 08:54PM

Any bigger anroid keyboards out there for middle age farm fingers!!!

Sheep breeder · 06-05-2026 08:59PM

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Agree what your saying, a best friend of mine is a block layer by trade and a total horse of a man with shovels for hands to lay blocks, but everything had to done right by the labour or he would receive a bollicking all day, he done the blocks on our house and I had to have the blocks stacked for the next day to speed up the job. Now his two knees and a shoulder replaced.He also farms as well.

No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

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