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Is rural Ireland as backwards as people say?

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    #32
    folamh
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    ^ What is the source of that chart?


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    #33
    fiachr_a
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    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    Unfortunately, Donegal are the forgotten county.

    Donegal's main problem is that it has no railway.


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    #34
    The J Stands for Jay
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    I've always found the Dubs to be quite backwards and conservative. But the overall Dublin population is more forward thinking because of all the blow-ins.


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    #35
    [Deleted User]
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    Wheres Nox001 when you need him.


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    #36
    Mesrine65
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    I'm an inner city northside Dub born, bred & buttered & I prefer rural Ireland TBH :eek:

    Backward people & ideas are not geographically based.


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    #37
    Ozymandius2011
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    I remember getting quite a frightening response when I came out to a rural friend in Co.Wexford around 2000. He blabbed to an older relative who confronted my father to pass on a message the former would never speak to me again. He also broke my confidence by telling the whole village. So I went back into the closet and made out it was just a phase. However I was pleasantly surprised how well my parents took it.


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    #38
    Tar.Aldarion
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    folamh wrote: »
    ^ What is the source of that chart?

    http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/Voting/Referenda/PublicationsDocuments/FileDownLoad,1894,en.pdf


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    #39
    The J Stands for Jay
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    Ozymandius2011 wrote: »
    an older relative who confronted my father to pass on a message the former would never speak to me again.

    I can never get my head round this. Why would anyone be so angry about something that has no effects on them?


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    #40
    [Deleted User]
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    Ozymandius2011 wrote: »
    I remember getting quite a frightening response when I came out to a rural friend in Co.Wexford around 2000. He blabbed to an older relative who confronted my father to pass on a message the former would never speak to me again. He also broke my confidence by telling the whole village. So I went back into the closet and made out it was just a phase. However I was pleasantly surprised how well my parents took it.

    :( Hard to get my head around that one.

    I'm glad your parents were good though.


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    #41
    pmasterson95
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    Ozymandius2011 wrote: »
    I remember getting quite a frightening response when I came out to a rural friend in Co.Wexford around 2000. He blabbed to an older relative who confronted my father to pass on a message the former would never speak to me again. He also broke my confidence by telling the whole village. So I went back into the closet and made out it was just a phase. However I was pleasantly surprised how well my parents took it.

    Sorry bout that but did no urban friends not accept the decision or spaz out?
    Like I'm sorry it happened dont get me wrong but I doubt the "rural friend" made much difference. "urban friend" could be a dick aswell.


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    #42
    K4t
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/Voting/Referenda/PublicationsDocuments/FileDownLoad,1894,en.pdf
    Rubbish. Mayo will vote Yes now that footballer Aidan O'Shea has endorsed the yes campaign. I'd be disappointed if it isn't a yes from Mayo, though I do seem to be the only person wearing my yes equality badge around town. The rest must keep forgetting theirs at home.


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    #43
    diomed
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    Little Britain, with Irish accents.


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    #44
    petrolcan
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    fiachr_a wrote: »
    Donegal's main problem is that it has no railway.

    Do keep up http://www.antraen.com/


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    cocoman
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    K4t wrote: »
    Rubbish. Mayo will vote Yes now that footballer Aidan O'Shea has endorsed the yes campaign. I'd be disappointed if it isn't a yes from Mayo, though I do seem to be the only person wearing my yes equality badge around town. The rest must keep forgetting theirs at home.

    He 's probably only endorsing the yes side because Ger Brennan is endorsing the no side :)


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    #46
    Galwayguy35
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    Doubt the no side will be that high in Galway East.

    Time will tell.


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    c_man
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    Is rural Ireland as backwards as people say?

    No, but it suits a lot of people's agendas to make out that it is.


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    #48
    BoJack Horseman
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    c_man wrote: »
    No, but it suits a lot of people's agendas to make out that it is.

    Never underestimate "the agenda".


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    #49
    marklazarcovic
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    is a handpainted sign up in a field in oranmore co galway ..

    'ya cant start a herd with two bulls' it says

    'vote no'


    had to laugh


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    Joe prim
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    bjork wrote: »
    You should take a spin out the old west clare road...It's like wall street below. Johnjoe O'Reilly opened a centra and sells lottery tickets. You wouldn't see the like in New york. I went to dublin once with my mother. It was terrible. There was no where for her to sit down and rest, full of places to rest your aunt though.

    Ye telt dat joke all wrong,and spoilt it, so ye did!


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    #51
    Aidric
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    McGaggs wrote: »
    I've always found the Dubs to be quite backwards and conservative. But the overall Dublin population is more forward thinking because of all the blow-ins.

    Weren't the labour party the biggest in Dublin at the last general election? Hardly conservative.


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    Joe prim
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    Mesrine65 wrote: »
    I'm an inner city northside Dub born, bred & buttered & I prefer rural Ireland TBH :eek:

    Backward people & ideas are not geographically based.

    Stereotyping, I'm a northside dub too, and I do be too busy breaking into houses and acting in Love/Hate to care about oul' gay referenda.


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    #53
    John Doe1
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    Location:Donegal
    Religion: Presbyterian atheist
    GAA: Load of bollocks, especially hurlystickball. I'm a rugby man.
    Gays: Great bunch o lads
    Farming: Nope
    You: Ignorant Twat


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    #54
    The J Stands for Jay
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    Aidric wrote: »
    Weren't the labour party the biggest in Dublin at the last general election? Hardly conservative.

    I don't see them pushing for change.


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    #55
    Aidric
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    McGaggs wrote: »
    I don't see them pushing for change.

    pushers out #sinnfein


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    #56
    Adamantium
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B436avtEXzs


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    #57
    WesternZulu
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    The OP sounds like someone who has never ventured outside The Pale and bases all their opinions on rural Ireland on lazy stereotypes...which is fairly backward in itself.
    jonnypacket wrote: »
    . I'm not familiar with Ireland outside of Dublin but I imagine rural dwellers are more fixated on farming, GAA and the Catholic church. How true is this?

    It'd be like me saying that all Dub's preoccupy themselves with drawing the dole, joyriding, and heroin.


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    #58
    Reiver
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    Rural Ireland=Real Ireland.

    Dublin has never been Irish. It's a mixture of Vikings, Normans, Sassenachs and Palesmen. Never feel right there, so many people living on top of each other. It's like what rodents do.


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    #59
    WesternZulu
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    Reiver wrote: »
    Never feel right there, so many people living on top of each other. It's like what rodents do.

    At least rodents are civilized enough not to speak in that rotten dirty accent :pac:


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    #60
    jonnypacket
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    Reiver wrote: »
    Dublin has never been Irish. It's a mixture of Vikings, Normans, Sassenachs and Palesmen.

    Looks more like a mixture of Nigerians and Pakistanis these days.


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    #61
    Lia_lia
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    Candie wrote: »
    Wheres Nox001 when you need him.

    I was about to say the same thing :pac:


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