I am LIVID right now at the neighbors. They started some loud partying around 1am and just finished up at 7am. I haven't got an ounce of sleep the entire night. We let it go til about 2 because we stay up late ourselves on the weekend (though no partying, just me on the net and husband playing video games). By around 3 my husband went over to them and told them to shut it. They apologized and got real quiet for about half an hour to an hour, long enough for my husband to get to sleep (he has work this morning, by the way).

Think I started to doze off at that point but was jolted awake as they started playing music and loud voices. This was about 6am. I called the garda and said they'd send someone out right away. An hour later, stilll no cop car arriving, so I called back, and they had got the wrong address! They went to another estate with a similar name. So I corrected that and they said they'd send someone along.

Waited another half hour and still no arrival, and by this time, the party had fizzled out and all was quiet over there. I called again and this time had a longer conversation with the officer, who informed me that there was nothing they could actually do except ask the people to be quiet. They can't do anything beyond that, and if the people tell them they won't quiet down, point blank, all the garda can do is turn on their heel and leave!!!

What the hell point is having the garda if they are that incredibly useless! Drunk people don't give a toss about how intimidating they might look. They'll forget half an hour later and be back to partying! The officer on the phone said my only recourse was to contact the landlord and let him know, and possible the environmental people here, who apparently are the ones who are able to enforce noise ordnance laws. They supposedly monitor the decibal levels of the noise and act accordingly. Somehow I've a feeling they are not open 24 hours a day, but I'll have to check into that.

So it's 8am here and I'm having my rant before I try to head off to bed. I have a 7 year old son so I doubt I'm going to get much sleep today. I am pissed off royally!!!

. I agree the enviromental people are who you need to contact, and the landlord, especially if the property is owned by a Housing Association or Council, they are usually pretty strict on nuisance neighbours. Was it a one off or are they always doing it? If it was a one off then I doubt there's much they will do, but if its ongoing then you should def keep a log to show them. xx

Ouch, I really need my sleep at the moment so my heart goes out to you. We have noisy neighbours upstairs and I am secretly gleeful that in about 4 and a half months they are going to get their comeuppance!!! Hope you get some sleep today lovely.

I know how you feel!!!! Our neighbours have been like that when the gf hadn't been working but since she started working things have quieten down as it use to go on most nights. Thankfully hubby and i can sleep in our spare office at work as this has been a god send. We still sleep there on Sat nights. And like you we are so looking forward when we have our baby, so they then can be kept awake too

I know the feeling, a house near me started singing drunken karaoke all through the early hours last night (which they do quite a lot) and I was exhausted from work and my husband starts night shifts tonight so he wanted a really good nights sleep! I was feeling bad about the idea of making noise on a night if I go for a home birth but now I just don't care. The person next door argues with her boyfriend ALL the time and not just loudly with the windows open but they go out side to do it in the street in the night/early morning and when they are not doing that they have sex really loudly with the windows open. The people who live on the other side have a 13 (ish) year old daughter who has full blow tantrums morning, noon and night EVERYDAY. Then a few houses down there is a lad who brings his friends round and they all play loud "music" (a repetitive banging noise) and treat the cul-de-sac like a McDonald's car park. Plus a few houses down on the other side are the people who have party's every weekend (both me and my husband work weekends!) and sing loudly all night long! It makes me SO mad and we live in what is supposed to be a nice and quite cul-de-sac. Sorry for my rant too, but I do sympathise.

It's like that in our block of flats - and we're right next door to the police station!!! But the police won't even come over, as they say that it is now the remit of the Council. So, all we can do is report it to Environmental Control or something who send out a letter and eventually ask you to keep a diary. Pointless!

GOD!!! What absolute insane and obnoxious people these are!! I can't believe the sheer volume of loud and disrespectful people out there! I would say I'm glad to hear I'm not alone in this but I'm not really cause it sucks for you all too who have to contend with this. I actually don't feel as bad though cause some of you sound like you deal with it on a nightly basis. Fortunately the neighbors don't do this all the time. They did do it a good few times in a row when they first moved in during spring, but we kept going over to their house each time, and then it seemed to drop off. This is the first one since then, but it was a real doozy!

I've never had to call the garda on someone before and so it's all news to me. I'm shocked to discover that they can't actually DO something about it other than look intimidating and ask them to stop. In the states, I believe, they can issue a fine for breaking the noise ordnance laws, or some such thing. I'm truly surprised at the level of uselessness the garda are in a situation like this. Absolutely unacceptable.

I wrote out a note to the neighbors that I plan to put through their mailbox today. Basically telling them off and letting them know that next time I will go directly to the garda and then the landlord, and the environment council. I am crossing my fingers that they will get a clue and take their parties elsewhere or go find a detached house to move into. I will definitely be letting them know that we are NOT going to just take it and we WILL raise a fuss each and every time and make it miserable for them to continue. We have been here awhile and I've a good feeling our landlord would rather see us stay here, as we are a quiet and well-behaved family, versus a group of hooligans. Hope it works!

Yes, in the US or at least where we live, each city has regulations or times set for noise control......Ours is 11 pm -8 am.....they can get fined for 'disturbing the peace' after those hours....