Would you fight for Dublin like Ukrainians are for Kyiv?

Your excused so

I like to think I would be far more effective using data, a little math and high performance computing but if it came down to it, I suppose I would pick up a gun.

Totally agree. I'd let the Russians take this place. The work shy dole rats wouldn't know what hit them.

Ireland is ranked #2 on Europe for obesity 😂😂. Yeah we would have an amazing civilian defence force.

Anyway half this country youth is obsessed with Twitter and communism 🤣🤭. Let's give them a taste of it under the Russians.

Best of all they'd ban Facebook and Twitter. Mental health would improve over night. No more meehole, veruka, and cabbage boy would also improve people's mental health. It would be time for the country to get back to work the way nature intended, building bridges, cities, infrastructure. Obesity would be a thing of the past and the dole would be used for those in need, not to feed an underclass of wasters.

LOL.

Good call. In addition to Mehole et al, I’d almost wave the white flag myself if it meant never having to endure the likes of vacant face McEntee, Amadan O’Riordian, little Woderick O’Gorman, and that cretin Heather Humphries.

Suddenly, the Russians aren’t looking so bad..

I'd want the Russians to implement a Stalin style of ruling here with purges , relocation of minority groups , gulags etc. Sure the weather would probably get colder too.

I'd also want a Beria type of character in charge of the Gardai and an executioner like Blokhin who managed to execute 7000 souls in 28 days.

Why would you fight for Ireland/Dublin ?

the country is both fûcked has been fücking us over backwards…

we are taking in 10,000 Ukrainian people, to house, feed… shelter, and…

the 10,000 are ALL to be given medical cards…. Fine, ok.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/ukrainian-refugees-will-be-given-medical-cards-says-donnelly-1.4820398?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Fireland%2Firish-news%2Fukrainian-refugees-will-be-given-medical-cards-says-donnelly-1.4820398

But… tens of thousands of Irish people have lost medical cards over the last decade, and are doing so NOW..

yet, the services and help that people could do with or need is being enabled to others, yet those actually paying for it cannot avail of it themselves…

public transport is the pitts, the metro, god knows if we’ll see it, government have admitted that 2035 is the earliest it will be ready….healthcare is toxically poor, unavailable, unreliable or savagely expensive…without a medical card or insurance.

are you ready to give your life for an overcrowded country, corrupted ideology and people that are paid to do fûcking nothing for its citizens ? And who take our money for it ?

it’s a kip…not beyond saving but I don’t see it happening….

read the proclamation, it might as well be written about the Republic of Novgorod.

“We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.”

Did we ever have a referendum to rip that up ?

will I fight ? No, because it’s unlikely this country will fight for me… it didn’t when it could have…

If this thread is anything to go by, Irish people have a serious contempt for one another

I think it says more about the posters of current affairs than the Irish People. I would never assume this forum is representative of Ireland in General.

Not surprising giving the example we are set…

our politicians have nothing but contempt for us….

“We’re going to mobilise all the resources that are available to us to do it.”

“But it does mean there’s a need for Government then to be open and honest about the fact that we will not be able to meet every other need that we want to respond back to because the need to respond back to humanitarian needs that we are going to face will be so important.”

in other words, Irish taxpayers wellbeing…will be and is being fuçked under the bus… and he makes zero apology for it.

200,000 people = the population of Cork city…

every taxpayer being charged for the privilege of getting shafted. Our ‘needs’ won’t be responded to…. A hell of an admission.

our ‘Needs’.. grim, unacceptable and ver, very worrying.

nothing left to fight for, our politicians and the money men don’t fight for us… country is fûcked.

What you have, hold it…

if you are a single person living in a 3 bedroom house you inherited they’ll soon be coming for it..mark my words.

I expect it to cost the taxpayers money, I don’t expect it to cost taxpayers their wellbeing, 200,000 people, the population of Cork city arriving here to be housed and looked after… will cost us just that.

so again… fight for the privilege of becoming second class citizens and taxpayers in our own country when we are there already.

really doubt 200,000 people will come here, but I'm sure you'll be fine. Are you hard up financially at the moment?

Don't forget Mimimum Unit Pricing for alcohol and the heroin addicts. You're fighting for them too!

Firstly, "Dublin" is not an island.

Regarding Ireland - this is my point: people aren't bothered fighting for it now, even without an invasion.

You ask "have we lost what made us Irish?" which is an interesting question, but begs the clarification: what really is it that makes us Irlsh?

Dundrum shopping center and the North Wall for a start. If they can take out Bray, great - but there's not really much a tactical reason to do so...

I'll be fighting for me dole

So you would kill innocent people for a cause that you dont believe in and were not forced to do so by anyone but you call a career soldier a coward as they follow orders?

Strange outlook on war/life in general.