u/TheOnlyOne87

I never really see this mentioned - certainly not on the show itself - but Fitzy plays intercounty Gaelic Football in Ireland, which means:

- he's played an All Ireland final in front of a crowd of 80,000

- he's considered an elite athlete by playing for a big county like Galway, Gaelic is pretty much the most popular sport here

- all his games would be televised nationally and the big ones watched by millions, even though it's an amateur sport

The amount of guys who go on the show who say they're footballers and make it their whole personality - but then it turns out they play in like the 20th tier of English football.

Just interesting but given it's a different sport - only really played in Ireland - I think it's getting lost in translation and not easily accessible to bring up.

I live in the South East/Leinster but when I'm scrolling the internet I see non stop competitions being promoted to win cars, trucks, agricultural machinery etc. Mad big prizes from a few different "competition" sites.

They all seem to be based in NI and I'm wondering:

- is there some tax advantage to running them from there, or just cheaper to get the prizes? Or less gambling regulations?

-is it legal to be targeting ROI consumers with this stuff?

-how many people are actually entering these? The prizes would cost tens of thousands so they must have a serious customer base for what is essentially gambling

We added 16 solar panels to our new build last year. In the last month or so export to the grid has ramped up with the good weather.

I've just discovered that after you reach €400 exported back to the grid, you have to pay the full rate of tax on it like it's additional income?!

We installed the solar panels to try and future proof our energy costs from spiralling and build credits for the winter season. Am I understanding it right that these credits I build up (when my bill goes into minus figures) don't just come straight off the winter bills but I have to pay 40% tax back on the total?

I'm trying to work out how bad this will be but instantly feels like a huge downside to what I'd planned.