Was walking around a town called Qingdao a bit south of Beijing looking for a restaurant and I noticed a spar. No chicken rolls or lucazade sport inside unfortunately.

Edit: Lads I'm aware spars not Irish, just got a kick out of seeing it in China, they're not very common in my experience there.

The Embassy of Ireland Abu Dhabi, responsible for Irish in the UAE, Kuwait & Qatar has issued shelter in place warnings for Abu Dhabi (UAE) and Qatar.

Stay safe everyone, and if you're currently in the Middle East, and haven't already done so, please register on the DFA's Citizen's Registration form, so that the Embassy know that you're over here:

https://citizensregistration.dfa.ie/

The United Nations voted in favor to recognize the slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity” and also called for reparations to the countries impacted The only countries to vote against were US, Israel and Argentina who opposed the proposal

This is for all people not from Ireland who either live here now, have been here on holidays or have lived here in the past. What about my fellow countrymen and women do you find unusual or confusing? It can be a positive or negative things(s).

I was having a pint with a coworker who moved over last month to Ireland, and the poor lad was having a full blown existential crisis over the "round system."

He genuinely had his phone out trying to wrap his head around it.... It kinda went like this

"Wait... so if I drink fast, I am forcing five other men to drink faster? But if I leave at 10 PM before my round, I am exiled from the group forever? Why can I not just buy my own pint?"

Trying to explain the legalities of pub rounds and the absolute social death penalty for dynamic dodging made me realize just how completely feral our unwritten laws actually 😂