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Why are you proud of Ireland?

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    #62
    Aidric
    Registered Users Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    I'm proud of Ant & Dec's services to television.


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    #63
    zootroid
    Registered Users Posts: 784 ✭✭✭zootroid


    Proud of Ireland? Very little to be proud of I'm afraid. Banana republic, where nothing gets done and everything is a rip off.

    Hurling and gaelic football are about the only things to be proud of, and even they're a rip-off to go to.


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    #64
    upmeath
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭upmeath


    I'm proud of our brave social experiments, like Navan. It really could have gone either way, when you think about it.


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    #65
    DancingQueen:)
    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭DancingQueen:)


    PaulieD wrote: »
    I am proud to be Irish as our own national sport is among the best in the world. Nothing beats Croker during Championship season. The sun shining. When Amhrain na bhFiann is being sung by 80,000 strong crowd. Unbeatable. Goosebumps on the back of my neck time.

    +1 :D It's something that unites the whole country even though there is a lot of competition


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    #66
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,694 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    To be fair, we're a small nation and small nations tend to be **** at most stuff. The only problem with Ireland is we've convinced ourselves that we're world leaders in everything we do, regardless of how bad we are, for some reason.

    Absoloutely. We don't just want to be good, we want to be the best.
    We want to give the most aid to Africa, build the most houses in Africa, build the most schools in Africa, build the most wells in Africa, all the while we screw the fu*& out of things here. Hey, let's build loads of hospitals in Africa, but wait, aren't children here now being sent a freaking broad to have surgery?:rolleyes:

    One thing I am proud of is Ireland's rugby team and the amazing Yeats,
    the Irish amateur boxers, Sonia O'Sullivan, Stephen Roche, Sean Kelly,
    Michael Carruth and all the true great sporting heroes we have produced!


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    #67
    Fink Goddie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    I'm proud that Colin Farrell the big dream boat is Irish


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    #68
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,694 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Fink Goddie wrote: »
    I'm proud that Colin Farrell the big dream boat is Irish

    All he needs now is a good wash!


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    #69
    Fink Goddie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    walshb wrote: »
    All he needs now is a good wash!

    I'd glady give him a sponge bath any day.


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    #70
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,694 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Fink Goddie wrote: »
    I'd glady give him a sponge bath any day.

    Rusty water! Agggh!


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    #71
    Fink Goddie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    walshb wrote: »
    Rusty water! Agggh!

    Dont be jealous, not every guy can be as HOTTTTT as Farreller


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    #72
    Theta
    Registered Users Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭Theta


    sneakerfreak wrote: »

    Yet no one was willing to free the rest of the country,leaving it to a small group of people who ended up going to extremes.

    the north was abandoned because the free state government was afraid of england closing its borders to our exports etc

    we gave up pretty much a third of our country so we could trade more easily with the uk and europe

    and being under freestate rule is not what i consider free but i agree that i am proud of the people who came before us who fought to get us even this far


    And what would you have done??


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    #73
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,694 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Fink Goddie wrote: »
    Dont be jealous, not every guy can be as HOTTTTT as Farreller

    Well, if a foul mouthed poser and scruff is what is HOT, well, you are right, not all can
    be HOT!:)

    Not a bad actor though!


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    #74
    Fink Goddie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    walshb wrote: »
    Well, if a foul mouthed poser and scruff is what is HOT, well, you are right, not all can
    be HOT!:)

    Not a bad actor though!

    Us women love a bit of scruff.:pac:


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    #75
    rossie1977
    Registered Users Posts: 11,358 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Fink Goddie wrote: »
    Us women love a bit of scruff.:pac:

    you must LOVE shane mcgowan so :)


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    #76
    Agamemnon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭Agamemnon


    Siún Nic Gearailt


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    #77
    Fink Goddie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    rossie1977 wrote: »
    you must LOVE shane mcgowan so :)

    Scruffs with teeth preferably!!! He is a legend tho


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    #78
    Fink Goddie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    I'm Proud of our politicians coz they're all so god damn good lookin, Mary Harney and Brian Cowen especially, what an advertisement for the country!!!
    GORGEOUS!


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    #79
    akaredtop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭akaredtop


    I am proud of the abuse scandals, crooked politicians, drunken yob culture, spiteful attitudes, all the people killed/maimed in our name and blarney such as "you will never beat the Irish". It is a great little country.


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    #80
    poisonated
    Registered Users Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭poisonated


    we are a very friendly country.

    we have not become over consumerised(not yet anyway:pac:)

    It is hard to walk down the street without seeing someone you know.(can be seen either way I suppose)

    Irish language.(I can not speak it myself:o)

    we are a very loved nation.

    When the sun shines,it is beuatiful.(not very common but sure the weather today is fantastic)

    the Irish countryside is great.

    The people are great craic!

    we embrace the small things in life.

    the one thing I am not proud of are the people who moan about this country...if you dont like it get out!to put it bluntly.


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    #81
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    poisonated wrote: »
    we are a very friendly country

    we have not become over consumerised(not yet anyway:pac:)

    It is hard to walk down the street without seeing someone you know(can be seen either way I suppose)

    You don't live in the same Ireland as the rest of us.


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    #82
    johnny_knoxvile
    Registered Users Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭johnny_knoxvile


    Im proud of Ireland because we are at the cutting edge of technology, we have e-voting machine that were used as extras in the new Transformers movie.

    When we go abroad everyone expects us to do riverdance, get drunk and fight (usually in that order). Awsome


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    #83
    Fink Goddie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    johnny_knoxvile wrote: »
    Im proud of Ireland because we are at the cutting edge of technology, we have e-voting machine that were used as extras in the new Transformers movie.

    When we go abroad everyone expects us to do riverdance, get drunk and fight (usually in that order). Awsome

    LOL, Mary Harney was an extra in that movie too.


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    #84
    TobyZiegler
    Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭TobyZiegler


    I thought being the first country to introduce the smoking ban was pretty cool.


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    #85
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    im not proud of it at all really i guess. I mean i like it here but i don't wear my nationality as pride. And where do people get this notion that everybody loves us? From my experiences people are sick of us, in every tourist trail you go to even in the most remote places in the world it's saturated with irish people and i got a bit of a "oh god another one..." feeling when telling people I'm irish. But i only represent myself not my country!


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    #86
    well horse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 202 ✭✭well horse


    Agamemnon wrote: »
    Siún Nic Gearailt

    You know what, she's one of the most attractive women on Irish television but nobody ever seems to mention her!

    In reply to OP...the Italia 90 clip someone posted wells up a lot of Irish pride in me.


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    #87
    Agamemnon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭Agamemnon


    well horse wrote: »
    You know what, she's one of the most attractive women on Irish television but nobody ever seems to mention her!
    Her online profile is growing. Facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=86569448121


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    #88
    netwhizkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    Fink Goddie wrote: »
    LOL, Mary Harney was an extra in that movie too.

    You are thinking of Godzilla or King Kong I'd say.


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    #89
    beardo81
    Registered Users Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭beardo81


    Theres a lot of really natural looking, hot Irish women round. All completely mad though of course. :D


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    #90
    Fink Goddie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    beardo81 wrote: »
    Theres a lot of really natural looking, hot Irish women round. All completely mad though of course. :D

    Thats a good thing though, right!:D


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    #91
    johnny_knoxvile
    Registered Users Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭johnny_knoxvile


    netwhizkid wrote: »
    You are thinking of Godzilla or King Kong I'd say.

    no.

    She was a stunt double for both though.


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