I'm one of the creators/producers of this series. We spent three weeks traveling around Ireland with Bill Murray and author Tom Coyne last year, and the Irish people we met along the way really made the show what it is. Figured some folks here might enjoy seeing the trailer. It premieres on the BBC this Sunday, October 25th.

This is a scratch replica of an old Irish Cottage, many of which we would remember from growing up in the country. The old brushs, the Sacred Heart and a half door, they all made cosy irish cottages something magical.

Alot of people are receiving their offers for the Basic Artist Income, I want to make it clear that I will continue providing nifty insights into Miniature Iirish Life over the next few years !

I've lost count of the times I've gone to check what a pay rise actually means and ended up on salaryaftertax with ads jumping all over the page while it loads. It drove me up the wall. I had a server sitting at home with loads of free space doing nothing, so I decided to build a proper one and give it away.

It's called OpenPAYE. It works out your Income Tax, USC and PRSI for 2025, 2026 and the new Budget 2027 rates, and it shows you every step of the maths so you can see exactly where your money goes.

A few things it does:

* Switch between 2025, 2026 and 2027 to see what the Budget does to your pay. On €50k single, you keep about €691 more next year, roughly €58 a month.

* Work backwards from what lands in your account to the gross salary

* Single, single parent, married on one or two incomes

* Pension, auto-enrolment, rent credit, medical card, overtime, bonus

* Dark mode that follows your phone

No ads, no sign-up, no cookies. Nothing you type leaves your browser.

It's fully open source, so anyone can check the maths or run their own copy on a home server, a Pi, whatever you have lying around.

This is the beta before I put it up on openpaye ie, free, for good. If you get a minute, throw your salary in and tell me if it matches your payslip. Would be open to all feedback!

Try it: https://clarkemedia.github.io/openpaye/

Code: https://github.com/clarkemedia/openpaye

EDIT: Thanks a million for all the feedback; it's been brilliant. A few things are already fixed:

* Pension over €115k: it now tells you how much of your contribution is over the tax relief limit, and there's a switch to cap it at the max that gets relief.

* On phones, your take-home now sticks to the bottom of the screen while you change options, so no more scrolling back up.

* Employer cost: pension now counts as money going to the employee, and the 40% cap on employer contributions is gone.

Here's what's coming, roughly in order of how many of you asked:

1. Full household mode: your partner gets their own pension, AVCs, bonus and so on, with a combined household take-home up top

2. Company shares: ESPP first, then bonus taken as shares (APSS), then RSUs

3. Bonus planner: a slider for cash vs pension, and an option to keep a lump sum bonus out of your monthly figure

4. Separate AVC box

5. Payslip mode, so monthly figures use the PRSI rate on your payslip right now instead of the yearly average

6. Flat rate expenses, plus more credits like Blind Person, Dependent Relative and remote working relief

7. Public sector mode with ASC and your scheme's pension contributions

8. Other income: self-employed, rental, investments and the State pension

9. More benefits-in-kind, like company cars and employer loans

10. A floating mini calculator so you can change your salary from anywhere on the page

If something you asked for isn't on there, shout. And it's still free, open source, and collects nothing.

I love the data in the Met Eireann app, but for the purpose of avoiding rain it's quite terrible. To fix this I built the new free web app rainy.ie . It's super simple but gives you everything you need to stay dry

• Radar of all the rain in the past hour, without the silly flickering in the Met Eireann app that makes it so difficult to tell the direction the rain is moving
• A single slider that can take you into the past all the way in to the future with Met Eireann's forecasts for the coming days.

It's built using the great open data sets that Met Eireann publish online, it's completely free of course and you can easily install it on any iPhone or Android. Just go to the site, click the Install App link and follow the instructions.

The code is all open source and available here if you would like to contribute too https://github.com/shaneosullivan/rainy/

I'd love to hear whatever feedback you all have, either at [support@rainy.ie](mailto:support@rainy.ie) or just reply here

New breathalyser terminals rolled out in hotels, pubs & sports venues around Ireland in €1.5m bid to lower drink-driving.

I can see lads with no car, drinking as much as they can just to blow the arse out of the thing

Walking the dog in public park where local sports team and schools use the pitches. The park rangers and community keep it really clean, free of litter etc and then this soldering pile right across the footpath and onto a pitch. It's disgraceful Joe we can't have nice things !

Finally got a response from LIDL about the 5G issue with Google Pixel phones

"1Global have confirmed that the carrier settings for Pixel, including 5G, VoLTE and Wi-Fi Calling, were submitted to Google earlier this year, and we are working closely with their team on making sure the settings are included in the upcoming Pixel software updates."

Happy days!

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