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IF YOU REGULARLY look back on the days where you could sit down and play the SNES or Mega Drive with fondness, you’ll enjoy this.
An Post has issued a collection of retro gaming stamps which feature some of the most iconic stars and games from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
The four stamps include Bandai’s Pac-Man, arguably one of the first iconic videogame stars created, Namco’s Space Invaders, one of the arcade games that helped shape the industry in the early days, and SEGA and Nintendo’s mascots, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Mario (both are in their early 90s incarnations).
The stamps were designed by the Dublin-based graphic design studio Zinc Design Consultants.
The stamps will cost 68c each, or €2.72 for all four, but if you don’t want to send them off, you can purchase a first day cover (FDC) for €3.72 or a sheetlet for €10.88.
If you want to refresh your memory, you can relive some of the more popular games from the 90s, or if you have a few minutes to kill, play some PacMan or Space Invaders.
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Why should someone with 20 years service with a company who now is on PUP because their company hasn’t brought them back yet go and find another job and not sit it out with their current employer and maybe get a redundancy payment?
@Michael: exactly.
@Michael: Think you just answered your own question there Michael
@Michael: Where potential redundancy is involved, it would be madness to seek employment elsewhere.
@Michael: don’t mind Leo, he doesn’t always mean what he says.
@Michael: And why can’t Mickey Martin look the cameras straight in the lens when he is addressing the nation, its like he has zero presentation skills which is embarrassing for a Taoiseach, it makes him look like he has no confidence in himself or is trying to hide something. Leo, whom I have no time for at least knows how to posture and deliver a live speech like he is talking to each and every viewer individually. Mary Lou has it down to a fine art, so too does Pearse Doherty and Paul Murphy to mention a few who have mastered the art of oration. Micky Martin needs speech delivery coaching even after all these years as a Fianna Fail politician which is pretty pathetic considering.
@Michael: leo is loves to mess you any way he can you have a job get another
@Frank Cauldhame: I don’t accept that.
While the government makes sure to allow all millionaires and billionaires come and go from the country to aid them all in their tax avoidance routines. Sure we can’t question them lads. Questions and rules are for the runts.
@Ashley Rowland: don’t forget the rises they gave to themselves.
@Dave Barrett: one junior minister was given a pay rise to have pay parity with the other two junior ministers as happens in most jobs and industries and employees who seek equal pay for equal work.
The rise is a 10% pay cut – I guess in haste the fact that it was a pay cut that you missed
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: Except teachers and nurses. But hey, the plebs don’t count.
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: you have some brown stuff round your mouth that needs wiping
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: you are quite incorrect – the pay cut issue was separate to them getting an additional 16k pay rise – but i guess in haste you missed the facts yourself.
@Dave Barrett: due another in October I think.
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: Can you tell me what company would pay a person with no experience 140k?
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: That comment may come back to haunt you. (If it hasn’t already)I sincerely hope it does
@Dave Byrne: the government is not a company. Poor comparison. Try again.
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: Niall, don’t let facts get in the way of a good leftie, adhominen rant.
@Bernard Sweeney: Ok. What “normal” country would pay a person with no experience 140k?
@David Corrigan: Average politician salary in New Zealand, a country to which Ireland is often compared has an average politician salary of €165,000. Japan is €226,000. You did ask…
Until childcare and schools are opened safely there’s a huge amount of parents claiming the PUP that want to and financially need to go back to work but simply can’t.
How can you seek work when you close everything. Muppet…
@Eddie Michael: Supermarkets are hiring
@Paddy Cullen AIWS: so are a huge amount of cleaning companies, some are too good for that stuff though
@Paddy Cullen AIWS: they are not hiring 200k people.
@Paddy Cullen AIWS: with full hours?
@Eddie Michael: retrain with the time you have. I am working but with the extra time I am learning new hobbies to relax so the opposite can be true.
@Alan Watts: no its probably alot to do with spending 20 years of your career working hard and building up to a salary you are worth. 10 bob an hour is an insult to all emoloyees never mind if ya have years of experience.
@Keith Dempsey crashig out of an illusion is tough, it’s harsh get through it you’ll be grand
@Paddy Cullen AIWS: so let’s all work in a supermarket. That will save the day won’t it.
@Alan Watts: whats the illusion?
Here in lies the problem, he wants you to pound the streets day and night looking for work, but he knows theres no work out there. He want to create the illusion that if you look for work that isn’t there it is time and money well spent – he truly lives in a fantasy world
@Brian Purcell: Quick look at jobs.ie tells a different story… Its painfull thats for sure, some people will need to come to the realisation of re-skilling, if not they will find themselves out of a job and on standard social welfare…. Honestly i wouldlnt be waiting around and trying to do what i could to skill up if i was on the payment…. I had to do this back in the last crash with no extra payment..
Its difficult times but pointing fingers aint going to provide any answers, people need to get proactive about all pissibilities available to them
@Mark: During the 08/09 recession the amount of jobs advertised on all these websites if actual jobs there be hardly no one on the live register, It is called CV harvesting.
@Mark: you should have learnt to spell and write a sentence instead of whatever you did. It’s unbelievable that I have people with engineering degrees coming in with English like yours- completely unable to write a report. In my day we learnt this stuff in primary school.
@SC: learnt?
Taoiseach fan here but I’m not sure he understands how the real world operates
@Mattress Dick: Hello Taoiseach fan
The Merry go round Taoiseach never did a days work in his life
He is a state sponger
@Roger Dawson: why has he been returned by his voters in Cork?
@Mattress Dick: V equals dum. Blondie
@John Nolan: The part time Taoiseacht Michael Martin was elected….on the sixth count in his own backyard. Thought he had a god given right to top the poll….If Carlsberg did the look on his face….priceless.
@John Nolan: Because he has had a Fianna Fail monopoly like a lot of other TD’S. No Women need apply
@Roger Dawson: Ah now he was a teacher I believe and another to hold on to that position for years blocking an actual person who wanted to teach.
@John Nolan: good question that and have no answers. But but but maybe thats how politics works in this bleeding country.
@John Nolan: He probably paid them to vote for him.
@Roger Dawson: We can differ on his effectiveness, but do you honestly believe he spends his workdays watching Netflix or similar?
@Conall: He never raised a sweat in his life
Handy state money always
Everything done for him by others
He has Sunk the FF SHIP
They just don’t live in the real world do they. Any of them. Muppets
@Derek Kelly ☘️: and you do?
@John Nolan: anyone with a brain and who isn’t a deluded member of FFG cult pretty much does
@Derek Kelly ☘️: Neither do most of us. We all knew that there were these overpaid underworked jobs availible and we didn’t just go for them. Who are the muppets here?
Wow, the Taoiseach is correct!!!
I’m sure that the people who are off work are currently looking for alternatives. However, I could imagine that many were also not expecting to have the reopening of pubs/entertainment postponed…
@8-Bit-Relic: I’ve been unemployed over a year now. Lost count of the number of cvs I sent out from June to christmas last year. Hundreds, easily. Less than 10 were even opened in that time. I gave up job hunting around Christmas. Sent off 1 cv since then… it wasn’t opened either.
About a month ago, I finally got set up with a desk at home. So now, I’m studying web development, so I can go freelance for a few years, then hopefully get enough experience to get a job… even entry level jobs in this field require 3-5 years experience here. In the uk, though, most places don’t require experience for entry level, based on jobs a friend has been sending..
@Mirabelle Stonegate: That’s great! It’s still showing that you try to get something at some point. I wish you best of luck!
@Mirabelle Stonegate: try Upwork. It’s a Freelancing site and not always the best paying but, it may help you get some experience for the portfolio
The Teashock was brought up with a silver spoon and he proves it every now and then.
@Frances Faller: @Frances Faller: never voted FF and not a fan of Michéal Martin but he’s from Turner’s Cross – not too many silver spoons floating around there,
@Frances Faller: in fairness he wasn’t. I kicked a ball around the street in Turners Cross with him. Not a fan of Him or FF.
@Sara McS: And his Dad was a bus driver.
@Frances Faller: You’re trying to sound intelligent but you have failed. Turners Cross wasn’t silver spoon country.
@Frances Faller: i think you have the wrong person??
@John Nolan: you should at least admit you are wrong and i am not
a supporter.
@PaulOMahoney Irish: Let’s say it wasn’t poor?
@Martin O’Reilly: It was,
@PaulOMahoney Irish: if we’re talking about silver spoons then we’re really talking about Mary Lou, Paul Murphy and Boyd Barrett
@GrumpyAulFella: Fair play you know your stuff.
The entire AV industry is down, without mass events theres no rigging, setup, lighting etc to do. I lose, but Mehole thinks I should take the retail job I upskilled from to escape in the first place.
@Paul Cunningham: either that or get 203 euro per week? O know id rather 400 a week to 203, no matter if I had to sweep shit off the side of the road
@Felix O Mahoney: Felix obviously on the payroll judging by all his comments on this matter and a very very sad person with nothing else to occupy his tiny mind. Do you live a home with mammy or have a happy relationship?
@iEuropean: yeah, im on the payroll because I’m a realist. How dare I have a differing opinion from clowns like you. There was no work in my profession for quite some time in recent years, so I went labouring on sites and doing whatever I had to to keep money coming in. No no, I have my own houses in kildare and tipperary, and I’m in a very happy and loving relationship with my wife thank you for asking.
Would like to get a job in the Dáil and get a €20,000 + Rise without even asking for it.
@James Keogh: Run for election then, nobody will stop you.
@James Keogh: go get elected then
So going on holidays abroad is a problem as you are not available to look for work. But, we are encouraged to holiday at home and given tax breaks to do so. I don’t see a difference between being in donegal or Greece
@Dave Harris: the weather for one.
Did he go to college to learn that
@Keith O Hanlon: Good old Coláiste Chríost Ri
The utter contempt, arrogance & incompetence of this man telling people to look for jobs when they are temporarily laid off and because the government closed their place of work .
It’s about Time emergency powers are taken away from these people.
@Isabel Oliveira: yes the government should have kept their businesses open. There’s no global pandemic either. I mean honestly.
@Isabel Oliveira: I now agree with you based on their abuses if power.
Amazing how this statement comes out just after the heat them slimy ministers got a nice pay rise, aul mehole playing the usual divide and conquer FFG card on the masses…..well mehole maybe if you actually do your job, get some clarity going and try to get businesses reopened people might not need the pup u grade A waste of space
@Michael Patrick Newell: they’ve all taken a 10% pay cut as of this evening. Prior to that, 3 ministers were to get a pay rise, but not anymore.
Lots of businesses are reopened, over 60% od those previously in receipt of pup are now back in work. Pretty good going in fairness considering this is a whole world issue
@Felix O Mahoney: wow 10% it only took 4 months and a top up last week to now take a cut
@Felix O Mahoney: its an effective amount of way less than 10%.
I’m a full time musician and am very annoyed sitting at home so decided to travel to Poland where I heard music is allowed outside pubs. This would mean me not collecting the Covid payment. I have always paid my taxes and never been on social welfare.
What do they do….cut my allowance.
@iEuropean: you are on social welfare. Pup is social welfare, why did you feel the need to travel during an international pandemic? To play music? Because you “heard” it was allowed, Get a grip
@Felix O Mahoney: how old are you? I have worked for 35 years and never claimed anything until this pandemic. How much have you contributed to the country vs me? I’m not a sponge and if you think that God bless our future generation! Yes I travelled but not for holiday but you obviously don’t have a brain.
@Felix O Mahoney: why don’t you get a grip felix and start reading comments with attention?
@Isabel Oliveira: Israel, how about you pay attention to what is happening in the world and stop blaming the govt for all your problems.
@iEuropean: well, you’re involved in the arts, as being a musician/dj so you shouldn’t be paying much tax at all, and if you are id have a word with your accountant.
FYI I’m 34, and have been working since i was 16, so dont bother with the i’ve been around longer than you nonsense.
I’ve also travelled, but im not on pup luckily. If you
Didn’t travel for holidays you can advise the social that it was for medical/business/whatever and your payment wont be affected.
Taoiseach, you should be self isolating after spending a few nights in a covid hotspot, Belgium.
Stop dictating to us when you cant follow your own guidelines
@Paul Dolan: No fan of MM but have all the other European Leaders isolated?
@PaulOMahoney Irish: No, because most European countries spent the 3 months of lockdown planning and investing in a safe reopening meaning they have a propper legislation for masks, temperature checks, testing at airports and propper contact locator forms that allow them to trace cases, meaning no Quarantine needed while entering the countrys. while our politicians spent 3 months doing nothing but suiting their own political interests telling us all what a brilliant job they were all doing, telling us to clap the HSE workers and to wear green jerseys.
Remember 2008 Remember IMF CORPORATE WELFARE CHEATS CHEAT US ALL!
They made a hash of it ,there’s not a noodle between them crisis after crisis follow by mega taxation to clean up the mess
They lock the country down and stuck everyone one this payment.
Dipstick
Monty burns will throw everyone on the pup benefits to turas nua,go and degrade yourselves with sweeping the roads
@tuco: degrade? You’re too fond of yourself, that’s the problem, nothing wrong with an honest days work of that’s what it takes to get a wage
@Felix O Mahoney: suppose your going to talk up about cleaning public toilets as well are we,you speak like a true Fianna Fáil lackey,now jog on for yourself
@tuco: absolutely not an FF lackey, just not an entitled pup like you. I’ve taken on 15 people in my company (construction industry) in the last two weeks so stop talking nonsense, plenty work there if you’re willing to do it
This is a smoke screen to all the fraudulent activity that occurred. Large amounts of this money was paid out indiscriminately with the worst oversight and control.
Seek work where? You are a Banker with no mandate lecturing to decent oeople that have no job or have lost their job due to COVID 19. You ought to be ashamed of yourself
FFG Greens dirt
Disgraceful behaviour by seriously sleeveen government members: Changing the PUP eligibility criteria on the website 48 hrs ago, only to cover for their embarrassing Tanaiste, Leo Varadkar, who is clearly legally ignorant!
Here, Ministers, it’s not OK to be drinking at work either, yet your bars at Leinster House are probably the most visited in the Western hemisphere between the hours of 10 am and 12 pm! Some ‘screening’ there too would be proper order, even by the Treasury, as some of you’s won’t even pay for your grog! https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2019/1230/1103555-dail-bar-bills/
Hi everyone!
WELCOME TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE DOLE!
The time has not elapsed for those in the dole. Jobseekers have been under the regular screening and controls all throughout the pandemic
Including threats to cut the payment for not meeting the objectives.
When the country went to full shut down, some jobseekers were threatened with cutting the allowance for not being genuinely seeking for work, this happened in March and early April
HR was and have been labelled an essential activity so those jobseekers in job activation programs have been under continue screening and controls … with libraries closed and the job activation centres shut down …. so people without access to a computer, printers, scanners and free internet … long term unemployed …. has been threatened with cutting the payment even though some achieved the objectives and FINALLY got a job … and then boom! Pandemic and laid off before starting
And then jobseekers got out, for their exercising time in their area and what do they see ?
People in PUPs taking this as a lovely Stay in Home paid holidays … going outside of their area because outrageous crying -this is not a police state! No one can tell me what to do- ….. well if you are in the PUPs, yes, the State can tell you what to do …. otherwise do not claim it
And at the top of all of this, people without any right to claim State assistance in the PUPs such as Americans with traveling visa or students visa … all over everywhere because apparently the covid does not spread when traveling in bicycles
I am still thinking the PUPs was an excellent contingency plan with the side effect now of people knowing the wonders of the Dole
The PUP schemes should have had been complementary with a job activation scheme so they can identify genuine PUPs assistance from those who needs to accept the new reality and make arrangements as anyone else
Making it up as they go along…
Are those Recipients of social welfare payments not Allowed to have annual Holiday irrelevant of Destination, or has this Changed due to Covid pandemic????
As Far as I’m aware it’s a civil Right & never been an issue Prior to Pandemic, Government are just changing the goal posts as they go about screwing The public further whilst feathering their own nests
Are those Recipients of social welfare payments not Allowed to have annual Holiday irrelevant of Destination, or has this Changed due to Covid pandemic????
As Far as I’m aware it’s a civil Right & never been an issue Prior to Pandemic, Government are just changing the goal posts as they go about screwing The public further whilst feathering their own nests
How dare that pinhead tell me to find a job….I’m unable to work because of the situation I find myself in…I hope I live long enough to see a country that truly cares about its fellow citizens….
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