{"id":209166,"date":"2025-12-01T06:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/209166\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T06:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:09:09","slug":"creaking-infrastructure-playoff-in-prague-and-taking-up-irish-as-an-adult-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/209166\/","title":{"rendered":"Creaking infrastructure, playoff in Prague and taking up Irish as an adult \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">If you\u2019re commuting to work right now on a jam-packed train or bus, you\u2019ll want to read <a href=\"https:\/\/irishtimes.com\/opinion\/2025\/11\/30\/cliff-taylor-can-the-infrastructure-plan-tackle-irelands-packed-trains-and-gridlock\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/irishtimes.com\/opinion\/2025\/11\/30\/cliff-taylor-can-the-infrastructure-plan-tackle-irelands-packed-trains-and-gridlock\/\">Cliff Taylor\u2019s look ahead<\/a> to the Accelerating Infrastructure Taskforce report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Considering whether to go to Prague for the Republic of Ireland\u2019s World Cup play off against the Czech Republic? Dubliner C\u00f3il\u00edn O\u2019Connor has lived there since 1995 and has a few <a href=\"https:\/\/irishtimes.com\/\/abroad\/2025\/12\/01\/playoffs-in-prague-avoid-800-flights-with-the-train-and-other-tips-from-an-irish-local\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/irishtimes.com\/\/abroad\/2025\/12\/01\/playoffs-in-prague-avoid-800-flights-with-the-train-and-other-tips-from-an-irish-local\/\">tips on how to avoid the sky high air fares<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">What\u2019s it like to learn Irish again as an adult? Completely different, reports Jack White. He\u2019s been speaking to a number of people taking evening classes at Conradh na Gaeilge. \u201cRaging I didn\u2019t do this years ago,\u201d says one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">And \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/irishtimes.com\/your-money\/2025\/12\/01\/regift-the-bejaysus-out-of-it-21-tips-for-a-cheaper-christmas-from-readers-and-from-us\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/irishtimes.com\/your-money\/2025\/12\/01\/regift-the-bejaysus-out-of-it-21-tips-for-a-cheaper-christmas-from-readers-and-from-us\/\">regift the bejaysis out of it<\/a>,\u201d says Conor Pope. Our Pricewatch editor is doling out his top tips for a cheaper (and greener) Christmas 2025. There\u2019s some \u201chelpful\u201d advice from some of our readers too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re commuting to work right now on a jam-packed train or bus, you\u2019ll want to read Cliff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,114597,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-209166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-file-photo","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115642824340615975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}