r/ireland • • Sep 03 '26

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT Notice regarding comments targeted at Travellers and Roma

19 Upvotes

Can't believe I'm having to write something like this again only three months after the last one...

There has once again been a noticeable rise in the use of dog-whistles and other derogatory comments against members of the Travelling and/or Roma communities.

As a reminder, ethnicity is legally protected characteristic in this country, therefore comments such as the following fall under our hate speech rules:

  1. Dehumanising language
  2. Calls or support for exclusion of members
  3. Calls for or support for violence against members
  4. Implying members are responsible for actions carried out by other members is not allowed
  5. Slurs and dog-whistles (including but not limited to utterances such as "knacker", "culture", "culture boss")
  6. Statements of inferiority aimed at members

The Travelling and Roma communities remain open for discussion in this community provided it is done factually and respectfully.

Any and all dog-whistles used against the Travelling or Roma communities will be removed, and the offending commenters will be receiving community bans starting from 14 days.


r/ireland • • Jul 01 '26

📍 MEGATHREAD Custom Charges Alternative Websites.

89 Upvotes

Hi all,

Given the new EU custom charges are rolling out today and many of the websites we use for things like clothes, electronics and household goods ship from the UK, even if many of them have a .ie web address, we thought it would be a good idea to have a list of alternative sites from within the EU.

So if you have found an online marketplace thats good value and which ships from the EU list them here.


r/ireland • • 2h ago

Talk To Joe On 0818 715 815 Grok gaslighting people because it can't translate Irish.

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r/ireland • • 4h ago

International Conflict Cutting Palestine flag necklace from Cheap Irish Homes episode a ‘mistake’, says RTÉ

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r/ireland • • 2h ago

Housing Derelict Properties Tax of 7% if no remedial acti

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r/ireland • • 4h ago

News Solicitors to withdraw from all work over pay dispute

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r/ireland • • 1h ago

News Be Emergency Ready booklet dropped 72-hour advice after concerns it would make people anxious

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r/ireland • • 14h ago

Food and Drink Most Northerly Pint of Guinness in Farren’s, Malin Head.

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r/ireland • • 13h ago

History Belfast early 1900s vs same spots in 2020s

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r/ireland • • 2h ago

Infrastructure Protest over lack of flood defences held in Midleton

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r/ireland • • 2h ago

Sure it's grand Illegal license plates clampdown

23 Upvotes

Remember the whole spiel about this last year.

As a driver I have noticed zero difference and license plates. They seem to be just as common and it seems no one bothered there arse to change them which makes me think that the guards have made zero effort to bother their arse to enforce it?


r/ireland • • 1h ago

Housing Over 7,000 homes restored across Ireland this year with Donegal leading the way

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r/ireland • • 17h ago

Environment Extremely rare and critically endangered giant mussel discovered off Co Kerry coast

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r/ireland • • 17h ago

Education Concerns around high unemployment rates among international graduates in Ireland

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r/ireland • • 55m ago

Courts "Candy Cloud" brothers in court on charges after Longford seizure

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r/ireland • • 11h ago

Education Appalling that all school books get thrown out as the syllabus changes every year now

52 Upvotes

It just seemed so wasteful. Society is meant to be passed this. When I think back to how I never really read any of the books I got in school, it makes this seem all the more terrible. I might look at 10% of the content within school books, but at least I knew the book would get use when I'd sell it.


r/ireland • • 1h ago

Infrastructure Cyclists not stopping at red light at Clanwilliam Place, Dublin 2

• Upvotes

I am a cyclist and a pedestrian. When cyclists have red lights in the bicycle lane at this junction and pedestrians have green to cross this junction it is appalling that dozens of cyclists plough through the green man and endanger and terrify pedestrians trying to legally cross the cycle lane. The number of times I've been crossing at the green man only to have to jump back to where I started because of ignorant cyclists at the junction is unreal. And also, when at the front of the queue as a cyclist at the junction when facing a red bicycle light - the hassle from cyclists behind trying to force the law abiding cyclist to break the red light and plough through pedestrians is a disgrace.


r/ireland • • 15m ago

News Scale of 'dark money' flowing through Ireland a threat to national security, report warns

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r/ireland • • 3h ago

God, it's lovely out Stopped by Grianán of Aileach in Donegal yesterday and the views were unreal! [OC]

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10 Upvotes

Just outside Letterkenny and Derry, it's well worth a visit if you're in the area!


r/ireland • • 15h ago

News HSE overpaid staff by more than €30m in three years, figures show

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r/ireland • • 14h ago

Environment Dún Lóich (Gap of Dunloe)

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56 Upvotes

Some photos from my trip, c. 2025


r/ireland • • 16h ago

International Conflict Final Irish peacekeeping mission to Lebanon poignant

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r/ireland • • 14h ago

Crime Just out of control

46 Upvotes

Couldn’t post into r/dublin so here we are!
So devastated for whoever this is. The anger watching is just incomprehensible.


r/ireland • • 14h ago

God, it's lovely out Dr Muiris Houston: Why it’s time the clocks stopped going back an hour – The Irish Times

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r/ireland • • 23h ago

Paywalled Article Sally Rooney’s UK withdrawal creates demand for ‘book smuggling’ Spoiler

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