They (above) found each other.

But where can a man find stubbly, chunky love in this town?

FluffyBiscuits writes;

Men are visual creatures when it comes to attraction, personality comes a close second and while still important brings me to a point on myself. I am a large chunky gay guy, which there in itself is not that rare.

However, I am into the same type of guy as me, large stocky types.

Hitting the dating scene recently I know a lot of similar lads built like me and Im on a few apps but its rare I find stocky lads built like myself who like other big guys…hence why I go to the UK a lot….

I have dated skinny guys to see but they do absolutely nothing for me physically. Anyone else out there find a similar issue in terms of dating?

Anyone?

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Um.

In the last few years, Dublin has become one of the world’s 10 most expensive places to rent, ahead of cities like Tokyo, Sydney and Singapore.

Deutsche Bank reported in May that typical rent for a midrange, two-bedroom apartment in Dublin was $2,018 a month, 23 percent more than in 2014 — the biggest increase of any city in the top tier.

…“You have a generation being locked out of the Irish social contract,” said Rory Hearne, a lecturer in the sociology of housing at Maynooth University.

“A lot of young people are now realizing they will never own their own home, and that is a particularly terrible outlook when you live in a country where a house is usually your main asset for retirement.”

…The Irish division of Savills, an international property company, predicts that rents will increase an additional 17 percent over the next three years.

…It now costs far more to rent than to pay off a mortgage. The property website daft.ie recently reported that the monthly mortgage payment on a two-bedroom house in the city of Cork would be about $700, but the same house would cost almost $1,300 to rent.

Home prices have rebounded since the recession, but homeownership has not, in part because people paying high rents often cannot save for down payments.

To curb dangerous lending and borrowing, the Central Bank of Ireland in 2015 capped mortgage loans at about 3.5 times the buyer’s annual income, but the median price is about 5.6 times earnings.

Housing Crisis Grips Ireland a Decade After Property Bubble Burst (New York Times)

Rollingnews

Road Safety Authority of Ireland’s rules of the road

Correct road positioning will allow a cyclist to move safely and competently on the road network.

Drivers should be aware that cyclists may need to change direction from the normal secondary position on the road (left side of the road) to a more primary riding position (centre of the road) in order to:

– get the best view of the road and junctions ahead.

– increase visibility for approaching traffic, especially where a driver’s view
may be blocked.

– turn left or right, enter a roundabout, change lanes or approach a bend.

Before changing position on the road, cyclists should ‘look, signal in good
time and look again’ to ensure that it is safe to proceed.

Where a cyclist is not confident in taking up the ‘primary’ position, it may be safer to get off the bike and cross the roadway on foot where it is safer.

From the Road Safety Authority of Ireland’s revised rules of the road.

Meanwhile…

You can cycle in the ‘centre of the road’, says revised rules of the road (Cian Ginty, Irish Cycle)

Rollingnews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oitp_4Kr184
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCR1U0E54w4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMM6kAiV1Q0

A selection of Lewis Wake’s Shared BPM – clips from movies featuring different songs with similar beats per minute swapped in.

Catch ‘em before they all get taken down for copyright infringement.

More here.

awesomer

This Saturday.

Barrow Street, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 2

A protest will be held over “the gardai’s inaction” toward what organisers allege as “the ongoing open incitement to hatred taking place on the streets of Dublin”.

Daily protests led by Anti Corruption Ireland founder Gemma O’Doherty, who was de-platformed by Google-owned YouTube, have taken place outside the tech giant’s Dublin HQ.

These protests are now entering their fifth week.

Dublin Says No To Hate regard Anti-Corruption Ireland as ‘anti-immigrant’ (a charge ACI strenuously deny).

They have urged social media companies to censor and de-platform others they consider to be ‘far right’.

Dublin Says No To Hate (Facebook)

Anti Corruption Ireland

CervicalCheck; Dublin City University president Prof Brian MacCraith

The Irish Times is reporting that a woman, who wants to be identified as Ms Scullion, made contact with the newspaper in the wake of Dublin City University president Prof Brian MacCraith’s report on delays in the issuing cervical screening HPV retest results to women.

The delays related to a Quest Diagnostics’ laboratory based at Chantilly in Virginia, USA, and Prof MacCraith found that 4,088 cases were affected by an IT problem.

Some 873 women who had repeat HPV tests were not sent results while, in the case of the remaining 3,215 women, results were sent to GPs but not to the women themselves.

Ms Scullion told The Irish Times that she was one of the 873 women and that she received a letter on Tuesday, August 6, telling her that she tested negative for HPV in her HPV retest.

But, Ms Scullion told the the newspaper, she is HPV positive – and she knows this from a previous test.

Further to this…

Marie O’Halloran reports in The Irish Times:

…The HSE on Wednesday confirmed that almost half of the 873 women received a letter in the last week from CervicalCheck that “contained an inaccuracy”.

…In a statement, the HSE said in the letters sent out, “we also confirmed that the result of these women’s HPV re-test was unchanged ‘and remains HPV negative’. However, for some women, this should have read ‘and remains HPV positive’. This was an error on our part and we are very sorry for any confusion it may have caused.”

*Thud*

CervicalCheck sends letter with incorrect test results to 400 women (Marie O’Halloran, The Irish Times)

Previously: No Checks

Three Ireland; texts sent to a Three Ireland customer by the operator; how the charge appears as a roaming charge on the customer’s My3 account

A number of Three customers have been receiving texts since yesterday telling them that they owe a certain amount for “Internet Services” and claiming that they’ve been “roaming” – when they haven’t.

Some of those affected couldn’t make calls or texts or access the internet after credit was incorrectly taken from their accounts.

The operator has responded to customers’ complaints about the matter and said it’s aware that some people have been incorrectly charged for data usage which should have been covered by their price plan allowances.

It has also said it is identifying those affected and they will be refunded – with prepay customers  refunded by 9pm tonight and bill pay customers’ next bills corrected.

Three Ireland Care

Tipsy early morning tweet from David Simon (above right), creator of The Wire.

Hic.

Any excuse.

Meanwhile…

A former Garda member who has campaigned for years for the force to admit he was dismissed because he was gay has now been told by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris that his “alleged involvement in homosexual activity” was the issue.

“A document has been located at the Department of Justice and Equality and provided to me, and indicates that your services were dispensed with in advance of your position being confirmed due to suspicions of your alleged involvement in homosexual activity,” Mr Harris has now said in a letter to him.

Garda was sacked in 1982 over ‘alleged homosexual activity’, Harris confirms (Irish Times)

Related: 1982: I was a garda. I was gay. I lost my job (Conor Lally, Irish Times, July 20, 2019)

Previously: ‘I Was Treated Like A Pariah’

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