Ireland a wealthy country

On Ireland becoming a wealthy country,.... if someone gave me a hundred thousand euro all at once of course I am suddenly going to feel well off, however if some one gave me ten euro a day and over time it amounted to a hundred thousand euro, its going to happen almost unnoticed to myself that what I think is happing in Irish society.

I uses cheaper cuts of meat, but that's in the context of having the choice of having a steak or eating out if I wanted too, my parents generation used cheaper cuts of meat because that all they could afford while trying to feed a family of eight, expectations around food have changed and that is one sign of a society becoming more wealthy.

jank

FTA69 wrote: »

However, when talking about Ireland's problems, a sense of perspective is also needed if you're going to compare the poverty there to the poverty in other parts of the world.

Amen to that. Once you see what real abject poverty looks like, the type you can feel on your skin, the type you can smell and gets stuck in your hair. Then you realise how lucky you are and how despite its problems how wealthy Ireland is to the rest of the world. If you were born in Ireland and educated there even to Leaving Cert level that you are on a much better road than billions of others.

Everyone knows that we love to beat ourselves up, we are very cynical and hugely pessimistic but I genuinely believe if people had a positive attitude in Ireland and went about their life in this positive manner knowing that we are actually lucky then the country would be much better for it. Too many doom merchants in the media and elsewhere.

marmurr1916

K-9 wrote: »

The survey found that while 70% of Irish households own their own home – just 34% still had money owing on their mortgage debt in 2013.

There's a hell of a lot of positives in there but you wouldn't know it to glance at the article. A surprising amount of people have no mortgage debt whatsoever or small mortgage debt.

About half of the people who've bought homes don't have any mortgage debt any more?

That's pretty phenomenal!

JimmyReilly

No, we're not. Why do you all share houses with friends, strangers well into your 30s? Because you have no money.

marmurr1916

JimmyReilly wrote: »

No, we're not. Why do you all share houses with friends, strangers well into your 30s? Because you have no money.

Who's 'you all'? I own my house.

RobertKK

JimmyReilly wrote: »

No, we're not. Why do you all share houses with friends, strangers well into your 30s? Because you have no money.

In my 30s, own my own house, no mortgage, sharing with no one.

JimmyReilly

You live in little dingy kips though.

RobertKK

JimmyReilly wrote: »

You live in little dingy kips though.

No my dingy kip has 5 bedrooms, house is too big for one person really.

JimmyReilly

I spent 30 years in Ireland so I know exactly what sort of houses people live in. Start calling yourselves a wealthy country when people live in decent accomodation.

JimmyReilly

RobertKK wrote: »

No my dingy kip has 5 bedrooms, house is too big for one person really.

I'm not really interested in your bungalow situated in the wilderness between Mullingar and Killucan.

The Backwards Man

Go home JimmyReilly, to Ballyjamesduff.

Tugboats

JimmyReilly wrote: »

No, we're not. Why do you all share houses with friends, strangers well into your 30s? Because you have no money.

JimmyReilly wrote: »

You live in little dingy kips though.

JimmyReilly wrote: »

I spent 30 years in Ireland so I know exactly what sort of houses people live in. Start calling yourselves a wealthy country when people live in decent accomodation.

JimmyReilly wrote: »

I'm not really interested in your bungalow situated in the wilderness between Mullingar and Killucan.

Has anyone figured out what's up with this doughnut?

fits

my teapot is orange wrote: »

While I agree that Ireland is a fairly well-off country, I do think that due to the particularly strong agricultural sector, the quality of food is very high. Irish people expect it. I wouldn't assume everything is rosy in Ireland because we have some top class butchers.

Indeed. My diet is almost completely vegetarian when i am away because the quality of the meat is so poor compared to what i can get at home

Lucyfur

MOD

You know the bit in the charter that says ''don't feed the trolls''??....Stop feeding them. They're obese from it.

Jimmy can't reply for a while, so please stop quoting him.

yipeeeee

FTA69 wrote: »

I'm just back from a month in Bangladesh and Nepal and anyone who thinks Ireland is a "poor country" in the global sense is talking out of their hoop.

In Dhaka I saw people whose only home was a 36-inch diameter length concrete pipe by the river side; they washed and drank from the Buriganga River, a ****-sodden slop that's one of the most polluted rivers in the world. Other times you might see a family of four living in an alcove in a wall, multiple people living, eating, sleeping and sh*tting in a space the size of a large bathroom. If people were pulling a rickshaw for 14 hours a day for the equivalent of $2 they'd know all about poverty and hardship.

There is systematic inequality in Ireland, there are also many people struggling and the above stuff doesn't negate the fact that working people in Ireland are getting a pretty raw deal across the board. Similarly, poverty is relative and massive inequality is a bad thing in the first world as well as the third.

However, when talking about Ireland's problems, a sense of perspective is also needed if you're going to compare the poverty there to the poverty in other parts of the world.

here here.

Everybody in this country bar 300 odd have a roof over their head every night and these have the option of emergency accommodation but most various reasons don't take up the option.

That is a very impressive statistic.

People are well looked after in this country if you find yourself out of a job etc.

But we really play the victim card so well, it's always someone else's fault or the government are to blame for every little wrong thing in peoples lives.

This is a great country and im sick of the lefties and Sinn Fein constantly trying to make out it's a hellhole and were all doomed.

Ray Palmer

jimbly wrote: »

I sympathyse with the peole who are struggling.
Ireland has the same population as a large English city e.g. Birmingham.
How many private hopsitals are in Birmingham?
How many are in Ireland? Someone can afford it all.

You might want to look up that because it is completely untrue 3 quarters of our population haven't disappeared.

Vandango

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

Jeezus I hated liver!!!

Vomit inducing stuff alright.