189 thoughts on “Handbags”

    3. Lilly

      + 1

      I’ve always found them friendly in the. Butcher Grill. Why didn’t she take her buggy up the road to Milano, they always have plenty of room. Entitled whinging.

      1. bill

        You go up the road to Milanos, you bandit muppeteer. It is a simple case of discrimination against the young and should be fupping illegal. It wouldn’t be cool if over 65s were banned because they brought down the vibe. Would you tell them to go to the local bakery for a sausage.

        You are the entitled who want to remove yourself from the cries of the next generation. Probably off fupping talking yes to equality to your lovie pals while not even understanding the hypocrisy that you represent .

        If I’m honest, I pity you.

        1. Lilly

          I am up the road in Milano quite often but occasionally I avail of the services of a babysitter and go to the Butcher Grill. You should try it sometime. Clown.

        2. 15 cents

          no one likes splashin out for a lunch with a baby crying over them. i have a 2 yr old and a 1 ye old, and as babies i dont bring them to places not equipped for them. theres places i can bring them, and people know that and expect it.

        3. Buzz

          Bill must be the father of Harry Peter. Precious. My youngest Petroc William had his first steak at 6 months.

  2. Ultravox

    The woman is looking for notice. Another Sindo Syndrome narcissist with an inflated opinion of herself, well beyond her mediocre talents or importance. Move on.

    1. Digs

      +1. We all know the type. Granted we lag in the family dining steaks, ( see what I did there? ), but the butchers grill is not somewhere anyone would bring a young tot. Silly little heel of a humanoid.

    3. MT

      Balls! I was out of the office.. have we crowned the Internet super villain of the day already?!
      **fumbles for pitchfork in boot of car**

  3. Mikeyfex

    There’s no real way to know who is being unreasonable and who is bending the truth of what happened here so as ye all come in I’ll just give ye numbers and we’ll do odds versus evens and have a big ol’ scrap about it.

      2. Leaning to the centre

        ‘pouting selfie’ shots check, mirror shots of cleavage and crotch – check, husband with ever present Leinster shirt – check

  4. Padi

    It’s a great restaurant, very tightly packed so clearly would not suit a buggy. Also I fully support their right to have it as an adult only restaurant.

    1. ZeligIsJaded

      Me too.

      And seein as it’s adult only, maybe they’d think about havin desserts in the shape of boobs

    2. DT

      Exactly. there are plenty of options in the area if you have to take a buggy. BG is too small, too tightly packed and the tables are too high – it’s simply not buggy friendly, they’ve no space. And they’ve had a sign on the door since they opened clearly stating that they can’t accommodate buggies.

      This woman reeks of self-entitlement.

      1. Regular BG customer

        Also states on their menus both online & hard copy in the restaurant that children over 7 are welcome but must be off the premises by 7pm

  5. Jonotti

    100% with the restaurant here. Why would you feel entitled to a buggy space in every restaurant?

    1. Vote Rep #1

      If I remember correctly, there is a step up to the front door so a wheelchair can’t even get in unaided, though I might be wrong.

    1. Mark Dennehy

      Yeah, but to be fair, it would be nice if they mentioned on their website that it wasn’t a great place to bring kids.
      As a parent, I kindof like that there are no-kids restaurants, it gives us somewhere to escape from the unending horror and bodily fluids. I just wish they’d claim it right there in the open so we can find them more easily.

          1. Chris

            There’s a fairly tongue in cheek sign on the wall in the Butcher Grill it states ‘Children left on the premises after 7pm will be grilled’. I think the subtlety was lost on this person.

  7. Caroline

    It’s a known phenomenon that sometimes common sense comes out with the afterbirth. It’s a tragedy for all involved, so perhaps rather than jabbering and pointing like excited monkeys, we could give this woman the space she needs. A lot of space. Millions of buggies worth.

      1. Caroline

        Oh Joe. If only it could be. But I already have an unspecified number of babies. Thanks must go to the hard-working staff of the Rotunda for stitching my cop-on back up my gooter on each occasion though.

        2. Joe the Lion

          haha good jaysus

          all I’m saying is, if you ever feel like having another one

          #just sayin’

  8. Ultravox

    I’ll have no hesitation now giving that restaurant my same-sex marriage nuptials business. If they can handle geebags like her, they’re pros.

    1. True Kilcockian

      Thanks for changing my mind on gay marriage. I was going to vote yes but you’ve changed my mind.

      1. pmc

        One person calling another person a geebag anonymously on the comments section of a website has changed your mind about civil rights?

  10. C Sharp

    A nice touch adding the bábóg to the avatar before re-joining the affray.

    A whole heap of annoying right there.

      1. C Sharp

        I may have jumped the gun on that, I just noticed the original complainant’s avatar was childless, but subsequent post was flush with parenthood. I didn’t visit the actual blog/fb page in case my screen melted.

  11. Miami Dolphin's Barn

    She was ready to complain before she left the gaf. Another social media attention entitled whinebag

  12. madouveh on the dole

    Wow, this person stinks of self entitlement complex. I personally really dislike the whole ‘excuse me, I have a child!’ angle. No one cares love. Stop expecting the world to bend around the fact that you managed to catch the seed of some local guy with a 2 Litre car.

    I really believe that people like this need to experience something genuinely traumatic and/or challenging, to burst the bubble of bullshit they live within and put their lives in perspective.

  15. Monahan Mangan

    There’s actually a restaurant in Dublin called Tribeca now?

    I’m sure the food is great and all, but these NY aspirations are just cringe inducing.

    1. Nolita

      Been there for about 15 years now… do pay attention when you schlep up out of the bog for your day in the big schmoke

      1. Monahan Mangan

        Well, I haven’t lived in Ireland for 12 years and I can’t see why I would feel obliged to keep abreast of Dublin’s southside restaurant scene.

        Your rude assumptions are your own: being unaware of the pretentiousness of Dublin restaurant names hardly constitutes ignorance.

        2. Nolita

          Whatever, bog man. Also, living up the road in Northern Ireland does not constitute living abroad. You were ignorant enough to comment without knowing what the fupp you were talking about. Take yer scoldin, yeh pup

    3. The People's Hero

      TriBeCa…… Triangle Beneath Canal. Ranelagh has one…. Just like they do in New York.

      A little knowledge before posting is a good thing…..

      1. Willie Banjo

        Beneath the canal? Near the canal might be a stretch but not ‘beneath’. Thet should call themselves TriNeCa instead but it wouldn’t have that ‘I fondly remember that J1 summer in NYC’ vibe.

        2. The People's Hero

          Maybe they should call it New Tribeca….. you, know…. as New York is such an original name…..

  17. Mulch

    Butcher Grill is a fantastic spot. But you only need to set foot through the door to see its not a place that’s designed for kids. Its a small, tightly packed space and is really more of a date/fancy night out kind of place.
    If you had made the mistake of walking in with kids, you would cop this within about 5 seconds, expect the answer they got to the question and just head over to Dillingers or Tribeca or wherever.
    But no, instead, disengage your brain and puke whatever thought comes into your pretty little head onto social media. Much better.

  18. Fluter Bad

    Never heard of The Butcher Grill till now, sounds like my kind of place. Count me in as a new customer. I’ve 2 kids and I’d know from a mere glance through the window if it was suitable. This poor victim just needs the attention.

    1. donkey_kong

      i’ve kids too and when i’m out paying for lunch/dinner – the last place i’ want to be in is a kids friendly place.
      new customer here too

  19. Mr. T.

    Self entitled non events, badly reared by similar parents are a scourge on society. They are just as anti-social as loud offensive junkies.

    Ranelagh has some nice restaurants but unfortunately, many are ruined by the self obsessed crass nouveau riche conversations going on for everyone else’s benefit.

    And don’t get me started on parents who think they have elevated to a higher plain just because they’ve reproduced another generation of w*nkers.

      1. Joe the Lion

        He’s already bagged the Golden Dildo one but oh my, he’s going for the match point

  21. Diddley Aye

    The trout pout, the eyebrows, the fake tan, the make up routine.
    So there IS an Irish Jodie Marsh.

    We are complete as a nation.

    1. Moimoi

      A nation of tweedledums and tweedlemees, the Sindo our Bible, vulgarity our badge of honour.

  22. Soundings

    Oysters with mignonette, Chateaubriand and Rhubarb creme brulee – that Butcher Grill menu has me drooling.

    Not suprised La Strop was miffed, that’s a terrific menu, almost worth leaving the babby & buggy tethered outside for.

  25. Joe the Lion

    This is going really well for yer wan

    Agree she’s coming across a bit annoying here but it’s also amazing how perfect all of you above must be

    Where have yous all been all my life?

      1. Orla

        I’m pretty sure you can still breastfeed if you have implants. It depends on where the implant was inserted. I also noticed her ‘detox’ tea. Jay-sus.

        3. squiggleyjoop

          The detox tea is only €30 for a month’s supply. Just try add that to your budget without turning the pen on yourself.

  27. edalicious

    Mother of god, have we actually found a topic that nearly all BS readers can agree on?!

    3. Nigel

      Yes, and as a result come across collectively and cumulatively as far far more horrible than the focus of their ire could ever possibly be. So there’s that.

    4. rotide

      Missed this earlier and that was the first thing that struck me!

      We have discovered nirvana!

  28. The People's Hero

    What a mare….. as in nightmare, not horse.

    She’s judged and now so can we….

    A nice big glass of red wine a few weeks after birth?! The horror! But, no, the Aptamil – she’s feeding her poor child formula…. What an awful mother. I suppose those cleavage shots would come to an end – along with her fledgling career as a wannabe youtube celeb – if little Harry got too fond of his ‘bitty’…..

    There’s some judgment for ya.

  29. Pray For Mojo

    I hate to join in the bitching, but I will anyway. Don’t mind this whole scrap, can we please talk about the actual make up advice on her blog? Jay.sus. We have reached peak contour. And badly, badly done contour at that. Does she have a lot of followers I wonder? If so, irish women really will ‘follow’ anything that shouts loud enough with ‘advice’ won’t they. Men who have no idea what I’m shiteing on about-See pippa o connor and sosueme for additional examples of this type of helpful crap. Enjoy!

  30. phill sheehy

    i think we found the new candidate for d.6 from RENUA. horray lipo for fat kids with the fat to be injected into their mama’s lips

  31. YourNan

    “I currently work as a Personal Shopper and Fashion Stylist.
    I studied Make Up Artistry after school, and am a qualified Media and Fashion Make Up Artist. I then went on to study Fashion, and won my first job in fashion with a reality competition on TV3’s Ireland AM, to become a Personal Stylist for Oasis Fashions.”

    There should be a law against this sort to procreate.

      1. Lilly

        Not really. Card to enlighten? I try to keep my distance from the car in front and avoid ramming it at all times irrespective of the age of its occupants.

        1. Lilly

          And in the absence of a sticker, I don’t go – oh good, no baby, let’s play bumper cars.

        2. Mark Dennehy

          It’s not for other drivers Lilly, it’s for the emergency services. In case you crash the car badly enough to kill yourself, it’s supposed to let them know to keep looking for the kid.
          (Thought I’ve always thought that the infant car seat in the back ought to not only let them know that, but also keep the kid strapped in. Otherwise, I’ve wasted a few hundred euro on mine).

          2. ReproBertie

            BUUUuulllllllsssshhiiiiitttttt!!!!!

            These stickers are to alert other drivers to the potentially erratic driving due to the screaming distraction on board.

            Emergency services do not require stickers on cars to know to look for occupants FFS.

          3. Joe the Lion

            They should also have a sticker warning folks that a gun toting lunatic may be inside
            right, Mark?
            boom! boom!

          4. Mikeyfex

            Mark having a little April 1st fun there surely.

            A sticker on the back window to alert to bodies in the back seat after a crash? Dreamin’.

          5. Mark Dennehy

            Ain’t nothing in the Road Traffic Act about how you’re allowed drive erratically if you have a sticker on your car.

            And I don’t have a baby on board on my car, I always figured the baby seat in the car would clue in the ES guys in case my decapitated corpse isn’t able to tell them there’s a toddler’s corpse to go recover as well. But if someone wants to put a baby on board sticker on their car, I’ve no problem with it because I figure it’s for when stuff goes wrong.

            I just stuck mine on my front door so the pizza delivery guy knocks instead of leaning on the doorbell for long enough to wake up the little screamer after our much-polished six hour routine of getting him to sleep.

            Now, those lunatic christians who keep putting that fish logo on their cars, hoo-boy, that’s a whole other thing entirely.
            Congrats you upstanding overly-moralistic conservative idiots, you’re driving around with a ten-thousand-year-old pagan goddess symbol on your car that is literally a stylised vagina.

          6. Mark Dennehy

            (Oh, and the Gardai say we’re not meant to put warning labels on our gun cases or cars btw, to avoid making them readily identifiable for any so-and-so looking to nick one)

          7. ReproBertie

            “Ain’t nothing in the Road Traffic Act about how you’re allowed drive erratically if you have a sticker on your car.”

            I don’t mean it grants permission to drive erratically. It’s just a warning that the driver may take a little longer to react to traffic lights or what have you. When they were introduced in America it was done specifically to alert other drivers to the presence of children in cars in the hope that, thus alerted, the drivers would drive more carefully. The guy who introduced them to the US had seen them in Europe and assumed that was their purpose.

            That front door use is genius. It’s much better than the hand written “don’t ring the fking bell!” sign we used.

          9. Mark Dennehy

            “It’s just a warning that the driver may take a little longer to react to traffic lights or what have you.”

            Ah to feck, that’s the last thing that worries me about other drivers. I drive most of the M50 twice a day, someone taking an extra three seconds to react to a green light doesn’t even blip the meter compared to the lunacy that idiots try on at 100kph. I don’t think I’ve ever gone a week without seeing at least one near-miss or near-fatal bit of stupidity, like drivers trying to merge with 100kph traffic while doing 30kph, or lads deciding that they don’t need headlights in pea-soup fog, or someone deciding they don’t really want this exit off the M50 and diving across two lanes back into traffic without indicating and leaving about six inches of space between their passenger door and the concrete divider…

          12. Mark Dennehy

            Gun? No, you have to mount those on ships and tanks.

            Now a paintball marker, yeah, I’lll admit it, there have been times when I’ve been realllllllly tempted there…

  34. Pddy Mac

    Fair play to the butcher grill, who wants to hear screaming brats or negotiate buggies when out for a meal. they’ve got my business from now on.

  35. martco

    have a wee celebration coming up, decided I’ll be booking a table for my family here
    it looks like a nice gaff fair play to them for the comeback

    she is some yoke….

    4. Ciara

      The level of invective aimed at the woman in comparison to what she actually said is shocking! And yes of course women can be misogynistic! Duh!

  37. Bacchus

    In fairness if the Butcher’s Grill has a fault it’s the lack of space but not the staff. They are the soundest people around. By the way assuming this woman is representative of all/many mothers in the area is just plain wrong. Most do have brains and judgement and a grasp of reality and no better than to try and fit their buggy where a buggy don’t go.

  39. HappyDub

    Ah Ranelagh, plenty of rides I got in Smyths over the years..

    ..then over to the mickey doctor the next morning.

  40. Yorge

    That’s it. I’ve had it with parents and their buggies. They can most certainly be a royal pain in the dic*. Going out to a busy place? Find an alternative way to carry your child; for f*** sakes. God knows I always do.

  42. Irish Lass

    Worked in a pharmacy once as manager. First day the guy training me says: “watch out for new mothers. they are hell.” Me, being a (naive) mother, I thought, what a dick. But no, he was right. “The baby food is on the second floor. How dare they! There are stairs!!” Use the ramp. “Ramp is too steep. babyfood is too expensive! How dare they!!!” Nothing suits me now. I have the right to compain about everything now I drive a buggy. kids taking cosmetics off the shelf and sucking them? Awww bless little Beyonce. No, pay for what your child has destroyed. Asshats. Very glad I joined the office world soon after and the most I have to worry about is doing someones work because little Beyonce sneezed so they have a week off work. Dont get me wrong, im not unsympathetic, (as I said, I am parent myself) I just hate this yummy spolied prat fake tanned mummy crap. Go to mcDonalds if you have a kid. End of. Nobody want to hear your brat scream but you.

  43. squiggleyjoop

    I think children are silly and would rather not have to deal with them as I eat my steak. Ask a young child some basic algebra and watch its useless face go totally blank.

    I can picture all this woman’s friends awkwardly nodding along and saying “oh no you’re right somebody has to stand up for mother’s rights” while inside they think “she’s taking this too far and now people hate my child before they’ve even met young Finan/Saorise”

    1. B Bop

      Popped to Gourmet Burger, down the road from Butcher’s a few years back with husband…the small place had mirrors down both sides of eaterie…said Ranelagh “Earth Mother/Non Yummy Mummy” type takes out huge bap (not breaded kind) & proceeds to feed baby-no cover up etc.
      A poor office chap, sitting alone opposite had the big ugly image reflected back onto him. Everyone morto except obviously said doting couple with the baby on the big bap.
      To this day I regret not saying something.

      2. ReproBertie

        “To this day I regret not saying something.”

        Get over yourself you pompous puritan.

  45. Joe

    I have three kids all under four. I hate when people bring their kid(s) and their buggies into restaurants, especially small ones in Ranelagh. I go to restaurants like Dillingers to have a nice time, without kids. That said, I have had two of my kids in that restaurant without issue. They of course welcome children. They just don’t welcome big stupid buggies.

    Yer one is a g33 bag.

  46. Real Joe

    So lets see if I can figure this out and can someone confirm, is it part and parcel of becoming a mother in modern Ireland that they have to start a mummy blog filled with mundane waffle and crap like this. Newsflash you may be a new mother but ain’t unique not one bot and secondly the world ain’t put to get ya with kid and mummy hate. Take a chill pill and back away from the blog.

    1. Mark Dennehy

      It’s a coping mechanism with being housebound and sleep-deprived and stressed all the time.
      It’s these people who twist your arm behind your back, mash your face into the screen and force you to read the blog that are the problem.

    1. Lilly

      The comments on Reddit are hilarious! Hope she doesn’t read ’em. Then again, there’s probably a thick skin underneath all that fake tan. She needs to rethink starting all her blog posts with ‘Hi ladies’.

  49. ItsOnlyMe

    she’s probably delighted with all this publicity, who is she thought? should we care ???

  50. Kieran NYC

    Oh I’m delighted I don’t have to listen to Ray D’arcy cluck away for an hour and a half on topics like this anymore.

    He has kids, you see. And EVERYTHING is wrong with the world.

  51. Anomanomanom

    Well done, nothing worse than kids in a restaurant. I know most are well behaved, but crying kids and buggies in restaurant is disgusting.

  52. Angry Bird

    I will be dining at the The Butcher Grill from now on. I’m sick of other people’s breeding decisions ruining my dinner. I don’t want to hear, see, smell or come in contact with other people’s offspring when I’m dining.

  53. 15 cents

    her facebook photo album should be called ‘narcissist’ .. one pic of her baby, eleventeen million of her pouting, covered in slap

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