If you could change one thing about Ireland....

H2UMrsRobinson

Bad Panda wrote: »

Proper f*cking drivers licences!!

The credit cards ones are all laughing at our paper yokes with the bit o' laminate!

Oh we did have a giggle when my husband got his new Irish driving license changed over from his UK one. Looks like something the kids would make up on a computer. And only laminated on one side !

Father Damo

Ive always thought that the travelling community should be billed for all the benefits they needlessly claimed during the Celtic Tiger years.

grindle

Father Damo wrote:

Ive always thought that the travelling community should be billed for all the benefits they needlessly claimed during the Celtic Tiger years.

It was pretty late last night, so I can understand a slip of the finger...

You meant 'killed', yeah?

golden lane

Fenian Army wrote: »

brits out

which ones....????

Ficheall

Get rid of alcohol. Just to see what happened.

christmas2012

1. teenagers drinking alcopops and shouting **** at you

2. junkies hassling you all around town (no i dont got spare change im on the dole,and you probably are too with a hostel address..)..

3. fas and jobbridge (stealing what could be a paid job from the community..used to massage dole figures and a huge cost to SW provides no employment goes on to create unemployment in any given area they are in..for example a company signs up to jobbridge for free labour as opposed to advertising a few paid jobs instead..

4. fellas/girls passing comment or making a joke when your in front of them ..

5. nepotism in work

6. people who give out about those who have a sense of entitlement,who constanlty bash on those who are on the dole..give it up ffs who know you might be next in this recession..

7. bar fights

DipStick McSwindler

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MrMischief

Our educational system....hasn't moved with the times and needs to be more innovative to get our entrepeneurs to the forefront of industry. I'd love to see Engineers & Scientists run the country as opposed to accounts & solicitors!

christmas2012

christmas2012 wrote: »

1. teenagers drinking alcopops and shouting **** at you

2. junkies hassling you all around town (no i dont got spare change im on the dole,and you probably are too with a hostel address..)..

3. fas and jobbridge (stealing what could be a paid job from the community..used to massage dole figures and a huge cost to SW provides no employment goes on to create unemployment in any given area they are in..for example a company signs up to jobbridge for free labour as opposed to advertising a few paid jobs instead..

4. fellas/girls passing comment or making a joke when your in front of them ..

5. nepotism in work

6. people who give out about those who have a sense of entitlement,who constanlty bash on those who are on the dole..give it up ffs who know you might be next in this recession..

7. bar fights

Um, that's 7 things. You even numbered them.

Qualitymark

Just one? I think I'd choose to separate church and state.

Qualitymark

If I could have a second one, I'd get a lot of tugboats to tow Ireland down and tuck it into the corner where France and Spain are bordered. Then we'd have nicer weather and a land border with Europe, and we could start growing wine grapes and wearing berets.

BUBBLE WRAP

I get rid of this recession. I NEED A JOB! :MAD:

eth0

I'd like to see the whole country raised by about 1,500ft

Rented Mule

o1s1n wrote: »

A feckin land bridge somewhere so we could drive to Europe! Pain in the arse having to fly everywhere.

First World problems.

BUBBLE WRAP

eth0 wrote: »

I'd like to see the whole country raised by about 1,500ft

Fair enough, But what good would that be?

christmas2012

Deleted User wrote: »

Um, that's 7 things. You even numbered them.

i would if i had to change only one thing,get rid of fas and jobbridge as they occupy what could have been a paid job advertised..

Daveysil15

Ficheall wrote: »

Get rid of alcohol. Just to see what happened.

Good lord, we'd all go mad.

christmas2012

would we though?look at other countries where alcohol consumption is banned they socialise,they have social gatherings with non alcoholic beers all over pubs in ireland too,and they have a non alcoholic late night cafe bar where no alcohol is served its called the funky seomra..

Ficheall

christmas2012 wrote: »

and they have a non alcoholic late night cafe bar where no alcohol is served its called the funky seomra..

That sounds great - it's probably in silly Dublin though, innit?

christmas2012

no its in galway

christmas2012

just look for them in newspapers local papers,or online,or talk to people about where they have late night cafes..

BUBBLE WRAP

christmas2012 wrote: »

no its in galway

Christrmas 2012, must have been some event in galway.

christmas2012

going up 4th of july aswell for an outing doing swing dancing and everything..its brilliant!

eth0

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

Fair enough, But what good would that be?

Better cliffs for the tourists to come and look at

More hydroelectric power can be got

Might prevent some of the clouds from making their way in.

Slightly less fuel used by planes making their way in and out of Ireland

archie199

It has to be women! Maybe if they were like proper European women who are actually nice people, we're stuck with nothing but stuck up mingers in this country! I find their attitude amazing, so ignorant.

mattjack

archie199 wrote: »

It has to be women! Maybe if they were like proper European women who are actually nice people, we're stuck with nothing but stuck up mingers in this country! I find their attitude amazing, so ignorant.

can open.... worms everywhere...

archie199

mattjack wrote: »

can open.... worms everywhere...

You know its true... Someone had to say it!

DipStick McSwindler

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blueser

The bloody weather. Since early may we've had frig all in the way of decent weather; the odd day now and again, and that's it. Steady heavy drizzle/rain since late afternoon. Oh, for a couple of weeks of dry, sunny, hot/warm-ish weather. Is it THAT much to ask in early July?

VEN

archie199 wrote: »

It has to be women! Maybe if they were like proper European women who are actually nice people, we're stuck with nothing but stuck up mingers in this country! I find their attitude amazing, so ignorant.

these people are found all over the world

VEN

feeney92 wrote: »

Most of them are completly fake aswell.....nails, hair, eyelashes,pack on the makeup, tan, tits n everything!!

i tend to agree but foreign types use the fake blonde hair stuff and tits too etc

christmas2012

hhaha youd want to see our travellers lately all bling..

VEN

islam out

Daveysil15

VEN wrote: »

these people are found all over the world

And some people thought that your comments about women were bad ehh? There's plenty worse than you VEN.

VEN

Daveysil15 wrote: »

And some people thought that your comments about women were bad ehh? There's plenty worse than you VEN.

and not ALL people thought this???

archie199

VEN wrote: »

these people are found all over the world

A lot more common in Ireland... I've travelled all over Europe and South Amercia and never encountered females like the ones here. Don't know where they get the attitude and arrogance from considering the majority of them are overweight, bitchy and totally fake. Most women in Europe appreciate a good personality and a nice person, you have to be a total prick here! Don't even get me started on jersey pullers... It's so easy to pull good looking birds abroad and here most of them are so rude in nightclubs and pubs. Won't even enertain a chat and can be quite vicious, especially groups of girls. Anyone who denies this clearly isn't out anywhere in Ireland every weekend. Can't even have a chat with most of them on a bus, train, etc. They think they're all that.Sad times!

vitani

Politicians who know what they're doing. Everything else should follow...

Apart from the weather, of course. But with the improved public transport system, that wouldn't be as much of a problem as it is now

Qualitymark

A correct Gini Coefficient - the very best basis for a society that works is a low Gini ratio. Ireland's is swinging disastrously out of kilter at the moment.

HerrScheisse

More long term infrastructure planning. Everything done today is for today and not for the next. I am thinking more Gandonesque architecture, more turn of the 20th century edifices, and less of the feeble erections of the late decade, soulless monstrosities that will be a new blight upon the land, unable to be removed, but a curse on the eyeball daily for generations to come.

veloc123

archie199 wrote: »

A lot more common in Ireland... I've travelled all over Europe and South Amercia and never encountered females like the ones here. Don't know where they get the attitude and arrogance from considering the majority of them are overweight, bitchy and totally fake. Most women in Europe appreciate a good personality and a nice person, you have to be a total prick here! Don't even get me started on jersey pullers... It's so easy to pull good looking birds abroad and here most of them are so rude in nightclubs and pubs. Won't even enertain a chat and can be quite vicious, especially groups of girls. Anyone who denies this clearly isn't out anywhere in Ireland every weekend. Can't even have a chat with most of them on a bus, train, etc. They think they're all that.Sad times!

Well said mate I mean who do they think they are not even good looking half of them...

christmas2012

another thing i would change would be the roads in ireland,some of them are truly dreadful would wreck your car..

Daveysil15

archie199 wrote: »

Most women in Europe appreciate a good personality and a nice person, you have to be a total prick here! here most of them are so rude in nightclubs and pubs. Won't even enertain a chat and can be quite vicious, especially groups of girls!

Not all Irish girls are rude and vicious, but I do to an extent agree with what you said about other European's appreciating a nice person. The old saying 'The nice guy always finishes last' seems to be more true here, than say Eastern Europe and some other places. It's only a generalisation though and there are good and bad everywhere.