u/DuckyD2point0

Are the yanks at it again. It's absolutely ridiculous at this hour. It can be heard in Dublin 8 and Dublin 12(myself and friends/,family), we can all hear it.

Bus in 4 mins, then goes to 6 mins, 5 mins, 6 mins, 4mins. 11 mins overall waiting on bus that 4 mins away. You have to love such fantastic service.

I've just had the worst pint of Guinness I've ever had in the area and it's gone up to €7.

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I used to like randomly coming here, not any more.

I work in a hse facility, I don't want to give any info of where exactly so I'll be using "facility". We are all hse employees, hse rules and so on.

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We have a patient that we need to stay for longer than initially planned, I mean that as in our staff dealing with him medically think he needs extra treatment. Here's where the title comes in about cost, everyone assumes it's free in Ireland no matter what's wrong with you. We had to contact his insurance to see if he's covered because otherwise it's €875 a day, he's not covered so we are discharging him on Friday.

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We've always had fees but we are slowly slowly turning into an American style system.

Edit: As I said in reply to someone else. I can't lie and pretend I know the ins and outs of who pays what and why or who gets discharged what reasons. I was only involved in the conversation about this patient because I deal directly with them for certain things.

I posted a few weeks ago about the new council estate that opened literally spitting distance to where I live. And explained the green area in my estate was being littered and so on, there are people living here 20 years with absolutely no issues and now have seen their first fly tipping. Rubbish bags full of crap, an armchair and a mattress.

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It obviously came from the new houses because if it didn't it's a massive coincidence that small anti social(genuinely nothing big) only started happening when the tenants moved in and now we have this.

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I said it already but it's getting very hard to keep sticking up for social housing to be built anywhere near private estates/complexs.

First off I'm all for social housing, said many times before "build loads and build everywhere". I'm absolutely not against it and I always defend social housing.

Now to the actual post. Where I'm currently living it's all private housing, it's a nice little community, kids play out together, green areas for them to play, no really trouble at all. But recently enough a Social housing "estate" I suppose you'd call it has just been filled with its tenants. It's walking distance to our estate so very close.

In the last few weeks we've noticed people we've never seen before, no big deal it's not a private green area. I thought it was great to see more kids actually out playing and it's nothing to do with us(the community) who uses it.

But already we're getting rubbish left all over the green areas, chipper bags and food, cans, dog shit, shopping trolley, so on. The cherry on top was the sunny weather and we got lots of "Shut the fuck up you little cunt" type loving comments shouted by parents(lying on the grass together ) at their kids. This was in full view of everyone else and their kids and was a continuous theme for the whole time they were there.

Even for me, someone who grew up in social housing, it's getting harder and harder to defend "build loads and build everywhere" when I'm firsthand experiencing what happens when you do get bad DCC tenants near you.

My 2 year old is very much "I wanna walk" everywhere now, not always feasible. Our actual buggy is big but folds down small enough with no hassle but we're looking for something basic/not bulky and cheap for just bringing to the park or going on a bus for a quick journey.

Once it's relatively comfortable for her, she does not sleep in a pram so maximum comfort is not what we'd worry about. Anyone any recommendations?