We are all literally a few bad weeks away from being starving and homeless. I am glad 2 of my sons took my advice and moved countries cos to be honest as much as I miss them I couldn’t afford them, I’m already paying from €170 last year a week to €230 this year on grocery shopping a week for 3 of us and it’s killing me. I shop in 3 different stores. I try everything but it’s getting worse. My hubby has a very good job but by the end of the week it’s like wtf just happened?

by Irishgooner123

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  2. We are working to eat and breathe, because that’s the way the government and the corporations they support want it. You are labour, plain and simple. As long as you show up to work your underpaid, overtaxed job they’re happy.

    Change comes from action. Widespread, meaningful action. Voting, strikes, protests, boycotts. Nothing will ever change unless this happens on a nationwide scale, and it’s made all the more difficult when people are so stressed about surviving that working towards a greater good plummets down the priorities list.

  3. Porridge diet the way forward €1.19 for the Kavanaghs in Aldi. Get you through the month alongside a bit of bin scavenging. Job done

  4. Tbh we just avoid brands and don’t find the shop too bad. The fruits especially Strawberries are expensive. We eat a very protien heavy diet so a lot of chicken, chickpeas tuna etc. We don’t go for much branded stuff, not worth the price imo.

  5. As a country we also have record savings so it’s definitely not everyone a few bad weeks from starvation and homelessness

  6. Yeah the price of everything is gone mad.
    Dreading the winter with the electricity and gas and I bet the price of food will go up again.

    I keep toying with the idea of selling my jewellery, or feet pictures…either or!

  7. In the words of Richard Ashcroft. “You’re a slave to money till you die”

  8. I’m struggling to keep working/existing because that’s all life is and I feel there’s nothing to look forward to. Just existing to work. Im sure I’m not alone in this and I don’t know how sustainable this culture is. It doesn’t look like it’s gonna get better and it really is crushing so many.

  10. If its any consolation they released the average wages data for Q2 on Thursday and they show that median weekly pay is up 5.3% from past year.

  11. Yeah, milk and other dairy took another hike. As for beef,……
    Pork and chicken still cheap though.

  12. The article says prices are up 5% in the year.

    If you were paying €170 last year it should be €178.50 this year… which is a 35% increase.

     EIther the CSO is wrong, or you are atypical shopper.

  13. Im originally from Belfast but live on the west coast of Scotland. The wife and I are just heading home after 5 weeks travelling the Wild Atlantic Way. It’s truly been one of the best experiences of my life. However, we can’t believe how expensive things have become in Ireland.

    We continually moan about prices at home but the price of food here is eye watering. I reckon most things are 20% to 30% more expensive here , even for the absolute basics. We frequently had to pay over €2 for a loaf of bread, twice what we pay at home.

    Our local pub has great food for around £15 per plate, half of what we paid here, same story with Chinese takeout etc. I can’t imagine how people manage here.

  14. They’ve not stopped “continue(ing)to rise” for the last three years. We are literally bare bones on our shops now because it is becoming outrageously unaffordable.

  15. Food prices are crazy. I do my shopping in Tesco so you can see the subtotal as you shop. Quite often I’m like “is that all I’m a getting for €70”. I need a raise 😂

  16. Thanks Vlad for raising the price of fertilizer by 150% since your stupid 3 day invasion commenced.

  17. Man it’s a joke. We are trying to get a house and start a family and the only people who can afford them are people who already have houses. Even went to a houses and the auctioneers said that they weren’t up to fire code and one that didn’t have planning permission and it’s on the buyer to fix it.

  18. Why is the average person bearing the brunt of inflation? Can a single person with some education on economics explain that to me in plain terms. Surely this can’t be the most efficient way to handle it

  20. Go to spain france or germany, you wont get any of the social benefits there yiu get here, rent is high and pay is poor

  21. Work fecked up my wages last Thursday so I only received just over a third of what I was expecting, they promised it’ll be sorted this Friday. I did nothing at all at the weekend bar walk in the park and read in my room, and I bought a big bag of rice, soy sauce and lentils in the Asian supermarket and frozen veg and some chicken thighs in Aldi to do me for dinners for the week to come.

    Add in needing to top my leap card for work and my health insurance coming out (I’ve a spinal condition so require it in order to not wait years in agony on public waiting lists, sadly a necessary luxury in Ireland in 2025) means that I’ve not a penny to my name pretty much.

    I’ll be entering my 40th year in just over a month and still house sharing with no end in sight. I’ve no real stake in society. I would have loved to have a kid, but even if I met the right partner I wouldn’t be bringing one into such a shambolic housing situation.

    I dunno. I know loads of people on the planet have it far worse than me, but the realization that all this stress for not much reward has been gnawing at me for a wee while now. At least I’m not alone in that regard.

  22. We are STRUGGLING. I’m the breadwinner and my partners career isn’t exactly working out. No kids, literally paycheck to paycheck, it’s not a life.

  23. Same, I work 9-6 and have two weekends off a month. The rest are midweek days. I can’t do anything social, not even allowed take holidays from September to January. So can’t get cheap holidays. I’m also 5 hours from my family and social circles. Trying to get my license and find a remote job that’s easier to do anywhere. Current job I’ve to stay in the town I’m living in can’t work remote to make social life work a little. Our landlord just tried to raise rent 16% too, if I wasn’t well up on it all I could have agreed but I didn’t. Now I’m worried he’ll retaliate in sneaky ways. I’ll be ready though.

  24. This is exactly what FG set out to achieve. Squeeze the middle at every option, ignore the working class, and pretend the poor don’t exist. Meanwhile the upper class are fucking rolling in it. Houses doubled, even tripled in their worth. Pensions and private health care keeping them going.

  25. I can’t find it now but there was an interesting interview with some American academic about how the role of labour has changed.

    His point was basically that after WWII there was a tremendous shortage of labour which tipped the scales in “our” favour. And so for a few decades there were good salaries, pensions, unions etc.

    But now the scales are tipped heavily in the employers favour. There’s no shortage of labour anymore. There’s not the same sense of respect for labour from employers because anyone can be replaced. They’re not competing for labour with better salaries and conditions like they used to. And the legal and financial frameworks that companies operate in have dramatically changed too.

    Essentially, for various reasons in recent decades governments have pandered more to capital and less to citizens. And here we are.

  26. You know when you are saying even Aldi is getting expensive we are getting screwed.

  27. I did notice I was extra broke last month. Couldn’t understand where all my money went, seeing as I didn’t buy anything expensive. It’s definitely worse than usual

  28. Not true, lots of people are doing well.

    Misery loves company on anonymous internet forums.

  29. Now more than ever the USC needs to be abolished to help people with these costs!!

  30. Is there anything in the article on WHY so that we can fix it?

  31. Honestly it’s the same in the whole western world. Wealth inequality has absolutely exploded. The rich(1%and up) I call them the vulture class, are hoovering up assets which are driving up costs for everything.

    I’m on a decent wage waaaaaaaay more than my parents ever earned in their life and I feel nowhere near well off.

    Taxing work and not wealth is nuts when developers are sitting on land to drive up house prices, billionaires tax loans out on the value of their shares and pay themselves a dollar salary.
    So as far as the tax man I’m concerned is they have debt not income. But ignore the very very liquid shares they own.

  33. Get out and protest, only thing you can do. The government has been choosing markets over people for the last 40 years and things are only going to get worse.

  34. €230 is insane for a weekly shop for 3 people. Where do you shop?

  36. I’ve given up. I don’t even look at my main bank account anymore as it’s in the minuses. I’ve €20 on my revolut to do me the next two weeks. The only reason I’m still here is for my dog. I became disabled two and a half years ago, so I went from working full time to being sat at home. I’m sick of it. Before all this I had the money for a deposit but wouldn’t have been offered a mortgage due to being single and my work hours changing each week in the hotel, yet the mortgage repayment would’ve been cheaper than my rent. Now I’m back living with my parents as I’ve nothing left. I’m a year and a half from 30 and have no hope. There’s a bigger chance that Arsenal would win the treble this season than there is of me ever buying a home.

  37. Noticed it today – went to Dunnes and it cost a good bit more than usual, even though I got a little less than usual. Rip off Ireland.

  38. Yeah literally the only reason I have a home is because we inherited my mother-in-law’s super tiny bungalow when she passed away. 😢

  40. Is anyone else just really struggling? Like really, really, really struggling.

    Like I work 9-5 and I’m considering getting a weekend job. I just dont know what to do. Im so exhausted.

    It’s just that existing is so expensive now. I don’t even buy anything nice or what I don’t need. Like I’ve cut all my expenses. I haven’t brought clothes in 2 years, haven’t splashed out on any holidays, buy generic, and no subscription services.

    But like, where’s the tipping point? Where does it all even out.

    I don’t even drink alcohol, I couldn’t fathom how anyone is going out?
    And they say ireland has a high rate of cocaine addiction….im just like how the fuck do you afford that?

  41. I’m sorry but, while the price rises are terrible, I’m having a hard time understanding how you’re averaging 230 a week on food – or are you including other things? I spends less than half that and eat for me and the wife and we eat very well.

    Are you buying a lot of ready meals or something? Not trying to be a duck but you might benefit from looking up some meal planning.

  42. That’s the life in a leftist country. The act of bringing down the rich brings down everyone. Sorry to say but get used to this form of sustainment living.

  44. Don’t forget that you are working to pay your dear landlord

  45. Eat? What are you a king ?
    I given up that long ago .. breathing .. well is complicated

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