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Irish not welcome home

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  • #102
    djpbarry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭djpbarry


    murphaph wrote: »
    You're joking right? Canada is leagues ahead of Ireland. These silly studies that have ranked Ireland as a great place to live will sone be telling a different story as the truth of our (fictitious) wealth becomes apparent.
    Again, I don’t necessarily agree with the high ranking. However, in the global scheme of things, Ireland could hardly be described as a “backwards dump”.
    murphaph wrote: »
    Ireland is an immature state on so many levels. The politics of civil war STILL play a part in people's voting habits almost 100 years after the fact.
    Whereas, here in the UK (for example), nobody ever votes Labour/Tory because their parents do.


  • #103
    JustinDee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,684 ✭✭✭JustinDee


    [Jackass] wrote: »
    It's only when you're out that you realise what a backwards dump it is.

    I've lived abroad for most of my adult life and am now back in Ireland five years. I wouldn't say this country is backwards at all. Strange thing to say. Everywhere has its own faults or a downside.

    What is sad though is willy-wagging 'my country is better than your country'


  • #104
    murphaph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,050 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    djpbarry wrote: »
    Whereas, here in the UK (for example), nobody ever votes Labour/Tory because their parents do.
    People vote tory or labour because of their current political ideology (of course this is often similar within familes, but is nonetheless current). There is an actual left/right divide in UK politics. In Ireland the Dail is stuffed to the gills with centrist (populist) parties whose main distinction is what side of the treaty they were on in 1921. Not a good way to govern our country in 2010.

    We need more right/left choice. The left in Ireland (outside the utter crackpots) are not really that left at all. There is no truly conservative party. All a bit bland, hence a total lack of interest from so many.


  • #105
    [Jackass]
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,193 ✭✭✭[Jackass]


    JustinDee wrote: »
    I've lived abroad for most of my adult life and am now back in Ireland five years. I wouldn't say this country is backwards at all. Strange thing to say. Everywhere has its own faults or a downside.

    What is sad though is willy-wagging 'my country is better than your country'

    Ireland is my country, it's just a sh*t hole, that's why i left...

    I'm not waving my willy around, but just stating my own perspective. I wouldn't ever want to live in Ireland again, and the reason for that is that I have lived in countries far superior and more pleasant to live in, in absolutely counteless ways, and it would be a sad and depressing day if I ever went back to that island to live.


  • #106
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    [Jackass] wrote: »
    Ireland is my country, it's just a sh*t hole, that's why i left...

    I'm not waving my willy around, but just stating my own perspective. I wouldn't ever want to live in Ireland again, and the reason for that is that I have lived in countries far superior and more pleasant to live in, in absolutely counteless ways, and it would be a sad and depressing day if I ever went back to that island to live.

    Your name sure suits you, dont be suprised if you decide to return in the future because some of us did. There is no place like home and it's just people like yourself that want to believe other countries are superior to us. I presume your family still live in this **** hole? Ireland might have it's faults but I would always be proud to be IRISH. If that is your attitude to your own country then god help the country you are living in now.


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