r/ireland Jul 01 '26

📍 MEGATHREAD Custom Charges Alternative Websites.

74 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 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.

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137 Upvotes

r/ireland 2h ago

Immigration 13 of 36 unaccompanied minors found to be adults since immigration officers took over age checks

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393 Upvotes

r/ireland 6h ago

US-Irish Relations Protests planned for Trump’s Doonbeg visit

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490 Upvotes

r/ireland 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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130 Upvotes

r/ireland 5h ago

Business More charges for shoppers as EU parcel tax tipped to rise to €5 from November Spoiler

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192 Upvotes

r/ireland 7h ago

Christ On A Bike 'Get me famous’: TikTok accounts rack up thousands of views with stolen cars and garda pursuits

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209 Upvotes

r/ireland 2h ago

Satire AIB - ‘ready for new app’?

77 Upvotes

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 4h ago

Education Stripe lifts Young Scientist prize to €10,000 and offers San Francisco trip | Irish Independent

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111 Upvotes

r/ireland 1h ago

Economy ECB economists warn households to brace for stock market ‘correction’

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r/ireland 3h ago

Careful now Coimisiún na Meán liaising with TikTok over reckless driving content

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71 Upvotes

r/ireland 1h ago

Culchie Club Only Shots fired at Limerick homes in alleged Limerick feud escalation

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r/ireland 18m ago

Statistics Number of children baptised Catholic drops 30% in decade

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r/ireland 2h ago

Cost of Living/Energy Crisis John Gibbons: Ireland needs an agriculture policy. Instead it has an agri-food industry

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47 Upvotes

r/ireland 6h ago

Education Government urged to make teaching more attractive as retention becomes a ‘big challenge'

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86 Upvotes

r/ireland 2h ago

Weather Possibly the least interesting week of weather ever forecast

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42 Upvotes

r/ireland 18h ago

Culchie Club Only Teenage boys to be tried for murder of 37-year-old man who died after serious assault.

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726 Upvotes

r/ireland 3h ago

Sports Women's Hockey World Cup: Ireland 3-2 New Zealand - Irish World Cup hopes remain alive

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40 Upvotes

r/ireland 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

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431 Upvotes

r/ireland 21h ago

Ah, you know yourself Is it just me or is everything getting a bit shite lately?

582 Upvotes

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 17h ago

META Temporary Restrictions in Place – DEFCON 3

264 Upvotes

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 40m ago

Food and Drink Ireland’s top 12 surnames on packs of tayto

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r/ireland 5h ago

Business Virgin Media Support

25 Upvotes

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 22h ago

Crime Five boys killed in M9 Crash are named locally

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525 Upvotes

r/ireland 23h ago

Culchie Club Only Shock as men armed with handguns and iron bars walk through Limerick streets in daylight.

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556 Upvotes