Comhrá - the general chat thread

[JaneJeffer]

Hi Craicnetters!

I was looking for the other thread and see it's fallen way down the list so I decided to make a new one for all our daily musings ☘️

Good luck to all starting the Leaving Cert today

Thank you Jane! Good luck to your ds today! I hope everything goes well for them.

Egg, I have so many election leaflets that some of them have fallen down behind the hall table! I suppose I will dig them out and see who's who before Friday!

Im going to try to vote for women before men but I haven't ranked them yet. They are very brave to stand.
My poor neighbour has just wandered past...her dd is doing lc. Getting underway is a relief.

Best of luck to all doing the LC and also to their parents who are enduring it too.

festivalofwritingandideas.com/schedule/
This sounds really good. Has anyone ever been?

Lots of intellect there! I thought it was something to do with Turtle Bunbury who lives in that area but it isnt. I had a lovely chat with Turtle at a photography exhibition at which my dd discovered gin and tonic. Which makes my life seem a lot jazzier than it is.

I've never heard of it, but it sounds really good.

@eggandonion your posts do make me laugh - you seem quite jazzy 😆

Yes. I always vote for women before men as well.

The festival sounds good! Great line-up.

We'll agree to differ @FuzzyCaoraDhubh.
I don't vote for a woman before a man.
I vote for who I think is the best candidate.
We have a female Minister for Justice who I think is not suited to that job.

I didn't vote for Mary Mc Aleese because she made disparaging remarks about people using IVF ( it was when she was "very Catholic" in her views ).

I felt it was easy for her to say, as she obviously hadn't suffered from infertility as she had 3 children and IVF gave so many couples much wanted babies.

Fair enough @deeahgwitch
I should have qualified my statement with the proviso that if I feel the woman is equally qualified and if I like her.
I don't give women a blind vote!

I didn't vote for Mary McAleese for that reason. I can't remember who was in that presidential contest. I didn't vote for Dana either when she ran. But if I haven't edited women out of my list I will give them higher preference votes than similar men.
The presidential election can be really nasty...that is coming soon. I would cut the term to 5 years. 14 years is too long.

Glad I'm not alone @eggandonion
I had a family member going through a few rounds of IVF ( they all failed, sadly ) and felt it was very insensitive of Mary Mc Aleese who was very lucky to have 3 children.

Jes*s the Presidential election!!!
I just hope Bertie doesn't get nominated.
But people have short memories.

I did think however Mary McAleese was quite good during the marriage equality referendum. Family life is seldom straightforward no matter how one imagines it will be.
Dana discovering a bigamous relationship in her family tree on Who do you think you are was good telly.

Congratulations to the mixed relay team 🙌🎉

They were absolutely brilliant.
Céad míle congratulations to them 🎊

Jane Jeffer anseo! I went to an all girls school near Dun Laoghaire a very long time ago. We spent a lot of time breaking our hearts laughing at the nuns and the teachers. OMG we literally had the best laugh. There were of course some hard times. I went to a School Reunion recently and it was really fantastic. We felt like we were back in the old school. There's one thing I'd love to do and that is to be able to caint as gaeilge. I keep seeing that labhair and I

I had the exact same experience. No doubt we were both at the same Reunion.

Mise fresin ba liom caint as gaeilge. I honestly spent a large amount of time breaking my heart laughing at that school. I have a copy of Peig's book and I am going to read it by hook or crook starting as soon as I can.
Jane Jeffer you're a legend on mumsnet!!! Lovely to chat. I'm seriously determined to read Peig. I thought I was the only person on the earth who liked Peig.

My Irish is currently at a very poor level but God loves a trier

Tryer even. I don't know how to spell the word

I find tumble dryer really difficult to write. I want to write drier. And kiely should be keily in my head.

I wonder who the RTE executive is who may get an exit package from RTE of circa €400,000 ?

The chairman of the RTE board refused to say if the said person had declined to appear before an Oireachtas committee.

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer weather 😛

Just re. the UK pension contributions, DH & I managed to get it all sorted online and have submitted our applications to buy back the years we need. Fingers crossed it will work out as it would be a nice extra when we retire. For anyone else thinking of doing it, once you have your National Insurance number and the dates of when you worked in and left the UK it's all fairly straightforward.

DH and myself must do that, I'll be getting a very small private pension from the UK at the end of next month.

You need to be quick @honeyrider they extended the deadline to April 2025 but there's a huge backlog processing the applications so you'd want to get yours in asap.

Can I butt in?
I have been unwell and listening to audio books and I've just listened to Marian Keyes reading Rachel's Holiday.
I knew about the Dublin accent saying "t'ick" instead of "thick" but she also seems to say "breath-ed" and pronounce the -ed.
I've known a fair few Irish people in the UK and have never heard this before. Is this only on a few words, is it her, is it specifically Dublin or all over? In England we'd only use this on "bless-ed" or in hymns.