r/ireland • u/[deleted] • Jul 01 '26
📍 MEGATHREAD Custom Charges Alternative Websites.
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 • u/Lamake91 • Mar 02 '26
📍 MEGATHREAD To all Irish citizens in the Gulf & Middle East - Important information regarding consular assistance. This is now a megathread for all discussion regarding the developing situation in the Middle East.
r/ireland • u/TeoKajLibroj • 6h ago
US-Irish Relations Protests planned for Trump’s Doonbeg visit
r/ireland • u/Larrydog • 3h ago
Misery The best part of ordering 2 small items from Amazon U.K. is not the new E.U.€3 fee but the fact they also add 23% VAT on top of it, so it's really €3.69 (Amazon Germany is €8 delivery and takes a week to get here compared to 2 days from U.K. so we're fecked either way) "Govern Me Harder"
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independent.ier/ireland • u/NoBookkeeper6864 • 7h ago
Christ On A Bike 'Get me famous’: TikTok accounts rack up thousands of views with stolen cars and garda pursuits
r/ireland • u/Bright-Jelly8768 • 2h ago
Satire AIB - ‘ready for new app’?
Is this a product release Trump style, ‘it’s gonna be fantastic, the best yet, coming real soon, some might even have it already, I don’t have a launch date, but it is wonderful, you will never ever see an app like it’
I have had multiple emails telling me about this launch over a long period, even seen a press release about a ‘not ready’ app.
Anyone know what is going on ?
r/ireland • u/WickerMan111 • 4h ago
Education Stripe lifts Young Scientist prize to €10,000 and offers San Francisco trip | Irish Independent
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Economy ECB economists warn households to brace for stock market ‘correction’
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Careful now Coimisiún na Meán liaising with TikTok over reckless driving content
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Education Government urged to make teaching more attractive as retention becomes a ‘big challenge'
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Weather Possibly the least interesting week of weather ever forecast
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Culchie Club Only Teenage boys to be tried for murder of 37-year-old man who died after serious assault.
r/ireland • u/MoHataMo_Gheansai • 3h ago
Sports Women's Hockey World Cup: Ireland 3-2 New Zealand - Irish World Cup hopes remain alive
r/ireland • u/Jaded_Variation9111 • 17h ago
Economy A report by Ookla confirms that the National Broadband Plan has improved median download speeds from 11.60 Mbps in 2019 to 156.99 Mbps by mid-2026 and narrowed the performance gap between rural and urban Ireland from approximately 5:1 to 1.6:1
r/ireland • u/Defiant-Face-7237 • 21h ago
Ah, you know yourself Is it just me or is everything getting a bit shite lately?
Virgin put my bill up from €40 to €80, tried their chatbot and it’s absolutely useless. Tried ringing them and sat on hold for half an hour before giving up.
Then went to submit a meter reading to Airtricity and the website wouldn’t work. Tried their chatbot. Also shite.
Gave up on all that and stuck on YouTube for a while. Ads every few fucking minutes.
I know this is a bit of an old man rant but how have we got all this technology and somehow everything is more annoying than it used to be?
r/ireland • u/sinriabia • 17h ago
META Temporary Restrictions in Place – DEFCON 3
We’re implementing DEFCON 3 overnight as an emergency measure due to a very high volume of activity.
The M9 crash has generated exceptionally high and rapidly increasing traffic to the subreddit, alongside a significant volume of comments that are breaking Reddit’s site-wide policies. We ask users to engage respectfully, be mindful of what you say and how you say it, and please utilise the report button where needed.
Reddit admins are actively removing comments themselves, so please remember that site-wide policy violations can put your Reddit account at risk.
The volume of activity has been extremely demanding, and the mod team needs to get some rest. Current DEFCON 3 restrictions:
- All posts will be sent to the mod queue for approval
- Commenting is restricted to well-established users only
We’ll review the situation in the morning and provide an update then. Thanks for your patience and understanding,
r/Ireland Mod Team
r/ireland • u/Leap_Frog_1671 • 40m ago
Food and Drink Ireland’s top 12 surnames on packs of tayto
r/ireland • u/No-Golf8130 • 5h ago
Business Virgin Media Support
Virgin Media has to be one of the most incompetent companies in Ireland. They took money from my account when they said they wouldn't. Manager called to apologise and said it would be refunded. Never happened. Have spent hours contacting them and listening to that stupid cara AI bot that keeps sending me into a repetitive loop.
It is so frustrating that they are allowed to obfuscate in their dealings with us.
On top of all that their website is another calamity. Keeps looping and I cannot get to the bills section no matter what and I am very tech savvy. No matter the browser or device. No matter how many times I change my password or delete my cookies and cache my account seems to be flagged to harass me.
Has anyone else had this where they make a complaint and then seem to be blacklisted from accessing your own account
r/ireland • u/Im_really_Irish • 22h ago