Today. Tesco, Rathmines, Dublin 6.
Jim O’Callaghan writes:
Is the recession over yet ?
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Today. Tesco, Rathmines, Dublin 6.
Jim O’Callaghan writes:
Is the recession over yet ?
…no…still in recession…not a single champagne bottle and mostly screwcaps…
Screwcaps are neither an indicator of price or quality of the wine, in fairness. And are markedly better for your wine if storing it as they avoid the dreaded corkage problem. Me tuppence.
…thanks for the lesson…always thought screwcaps were an indication of mediocrity…what is the best quality wine you’ve ever had in a screwcap bottle?
Not anymore no. Same goes for the cheapo looking plastic corks replacing the traditional proper corks. You can now pickup decent wine that will have either cap solutions. It is simply better for conservation that the traditional one.
It’s only where wine would be “laid down” to age that a cork would be preferable. For the vast majority of wines a screw cap is fine… not as much theatre but still fine.
We all partied
I see at least 2 Prosecco bottles and one unidentified fizz in the bottom left. A lot of the bottles look like Tesco’s €8-€12 range. Maybe I’ll while away a few hours with this picture in the Tesco drinks aisle identifying the individual items. Or maybe I won’t.
Good grief. The “recession” ended years ago. Just because Ireland isn’t in an unsustainable Celtic Tiger doesn’t mean its in recession. People should stop enjoying wallowing in misery.
“People should stop enjoying wallowing in misery.”
People in misery certainly don’t wallow in it.
*Actual* miserable people with genuine reasons are one thing. The ‘woe is me’ people who LOVE to see the downside in absolutely everything are quite another. Makes the atmosphere in Ireland bleak and depressing All. The. Time.
I’m looking forward to being in a busy pub and not hearing “no recession around here, wha?”
Go to any pub, all busy most nights.
You constantly whine about other people. Think about it
Nah, not really. Most of the time I’m a happy-go-lucky “+1” type of fella.
1000+ Irish children homeless and we should believe everything is fine.
kieran must subscribe to the bertie/enda line of “don’t talk the country down”, groupthink.
You’re right. EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE
Unemployment is down to 7.3%. That’s going to help lots of children stay in their homes and get more out of homelessness/poverty.
Celebrate that.
Job-bridge remains and a lot of people are still leaving the country year-on-year so don’t count those unemployment stats too seriously.
I genuinely wish I could see your bright-side – I am usually a very positive person – but I’ve had it up to my eyes with the way the elite of this country runs things – people freeze to death on the street and the government talk about how many jobs they’re bringing in. I’m not trying to talk everything down. If you can see a silver lining here then more power to you.
Just to be a pedantic Patricia: a ‘recession’ is when your economy has negative growth for two consecutive quarters. Ireland hasn’t been in recession since 2009.
And given short-run volatility of GDP in Ireland it is a pretty useless concept.
Two quarters of falling employment would to me indicate an economic downturn. By that measure the downturn ended in 2012.
Oh right. That’s OK folks. Ignore the massive homelessness problem, sky rocketing rents and car insurance. The economy is not in recession therefore you’re only a whinger if you haven’t noticed.
Yes indeed. Stop homelessness by giving up wine ye feckers. And stop buying paintings and leaving them behind in a pub because that also causes homelessness.
You write like everyone in the country is blowing money left right and centre. Plenty of us are still trying to meet rent month-on-month.
Most are from Jim’s sister’s gaff.
Jim O’Callaghan SC TD, by any chance?
You implied that, not me.
You implied it, I said it.
; D
Such an Irish image that.
“I did my bit, I left my recycling at the bottle bank but it’s not my fault the bins where full”
If the bottle bins are full, you find another one somewhere else.
Nah
If anything proves people are engaging in ‘binge drinking’ (3 or more pints) it’s this out of context picture showing an overflowing bottle bank, which clearly is frequently emptied based on the population it serves. People should consume equal amounts of non-alcoholic liquids contained in glass bottles, like pasta sauce and vinegar.
Our doctors are the only ones qualified to legislate on alcohol and definitely know the in depth economic effects of these policies
This is the only one for a few miles. None in Ranelagh, Portobello, Rathgar etc.
Milltown has two tho!
There’s one only a couple of hundred yards away on Mount Pleasant Ave.
Rathgar has a glass & cardboard recycling centre (behind AIB), there’s a big centre in Mountpleasant Rathmines, there’s several banks in Terenure.
I just throw them in the green bin and let someone else worry about them
This photo is a sign that the bottles haven’t been collected. Nothing more. It was pretty much like that at the weekend.
Agreed. I have often noted when in Portugal or Spain, that the Local Authorities collect these things on a daily basis – unlike here when it’s done when somebody can be arsed. People take the trouble to try and recycle, and are then berated by gobdaws for the failures of the agents charged with operating these bottle bands.
This is actually a vigil to a local, much-loved alcoholic who was killed in this spot in 1999.
Just after it changed from Quinnsworth to Tesco.