u/Worried_Angle_9436

I’m 24m moved to Dublin recently from Cork for work/study. I travelled a good bit in college but lived at home for college so this is my first proper time being away for the foreseeable future.

It’s almost a year into life after college and I just can’t seem to please my parents at all. I don’t shave they take the piss out of my beard and say it’s awful if I do they comment on my double chin, I get the train home and ask for a lift they have a problem with it, if I walk home from the train station and don’t tell them they think I’m odd.

These are just small examples(I could list loads) but it’s all small stuff like this which taken together make me feel so terrible.

I did well in college, got a good job in Dublin and on the way to qualifying in a ‘prestigious’ field but I still can’t seem to win with them.

Any advice here or is this just normal Irish parenting?

For context: my parents do a lot of good for me and I’m sure they love me but I don’t think they actually like me

Sharing in case this appeals to anyone. Mediation trainee with the legal aid board….. didn’t realise these programmes existed looks interesting!!

How common is this? It seems rough as hell.

I was watching this show on ‘The barristers’.

This barrister Kakoli had finished pupillage and was offered tenancy and then a few months into other junior members objected to her place in chambers.

3 others got tenancy alongside her but were not challenged. She had to address chambers as a whole at a meeting and essentially defend herself. Ultimately she was successful and kept her place.

How often does this happen?? Seems stupid for a chambers to offer tenancy to someone and then pull this straight away?

Link to the clip on YouTube - https://youtu.be/X1\_A72efd2g?is=uIW3lYfJVfGSBLQG

On the back of reading the reporting of legal aid stuff atm came across for qualifying as a barrister.

A year UNPAID and it has to be in DUBLIN.

Are there literally any barristers who aren’t from super wealthy families? This seems so bonkers in 2026.

What is working in this area like, anyone have any experience with these types of cases??

Is anyone else experienced this yesterday and today??

Well….

Any idea where this went, the last ep is from January and then nothing since with no notice.

I quite enjoyed it, twas easy listening and can’t find any reason on Google as to why it’s done.