What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

Oh but I bet there'll be bleeding hearts taking up the airwaves in January complaining about the cost of living after lavishing their kids with presents and bedecking their houses with lights.

Which segues nicely into my opinion that Christmas is the number one religious festival, across ALL creeds, that highlights Western greed. No other religious event has become more detached from its origin/meaning.

And has anyone else noticed that the cost of living crisis and sustainability seems to have taken a backseat now its the (ever-expanding) Christmas season? 'Reduce your thermostat by 1 degree, but make sure to overspend on presents for your spoilt children".

"Reduce your waste, yet erect santa post boxes in every town and fill them with letters that will be immediately thrown out".

'Think of the needy and vulnerable this Christmas, while overstocking your fridge with food, a lot of which will go to waste too'.

I love catching up with friends and the excuse to socialise over Christmas (which isn't as frequent any more as we gradually settle down), and lazing on the couch on the day itself, but the cynic in me hates all the commercialisation and faux happiness of it. And don't get me started on the perfect instagram pics. Oh and pretty much all Christmas movies are shite.

I'm sure I'll be labeled a Grinch now.

The Banshees of Inisherin is a very boring movie.

I've been a member at Bohemians for over 30 years and have gone to watch the Ireland team home games since I was a schoolboy and have travelled all over europe and beyond to watch both in this period. However, I travel to and work in Birmingham regularly and have a family connection with the Area and have also been travelling to watch a team in the area for a significant period as well.

I understand what ypu mean but some people do both.

Game of Thrones was utter gick

Not only controversial, but just plain wrong:

Irish football receives €1.2m more in government funding than rugby and GAA combined, figures released by Sport Ireland have shown.

The LOI is in the **** because their own governing body doesn't take it seriously.

John deleaneys salary was more than the prize money for the top two divisions *combined* - the fai is and was always one of the worst run sports organisations in the country

It's much easier for average looking & boring people to remain faithful to their partner's/spouses.

People of average appearance don't have to resist the same temptation as their more attractive counterparts.

Handsome Gerry who keeps himself fit doing triathlons is going to have more opportunities and temptation than fat Paddy who slurps Guinness and cheers on Man Utd from the couch every weekend.

I say this as a very ugly & boring, but nontheless thought provoking chap.

Basically it's easy condone cheating and remain faithful if your an ugly gombeen head

Irish Unity will be the end of Sinn Fein. They will be split over the flag, anthem, guaranteed Unionist representation in future Cabinets etc. etc.

Unionist and establishment parties will survive but SF won’t be able to define what they are anymore and go the way of so many other parties.

Anxiety is an affliction of the weak minded.

Peter McVerry is a total charlatan.

The sale, supply and use of all two-wheel-drive SUVs, that can seat fewer than seven adults, should be banned. They serve no purpose whatsoever, other than to make it easy to immediately identify idiots.

McVerry? Handed a blank cheque to take the dregs of society of DCC's hands, also given a heap of houses, apartments and even land to build on and administer as they see fit. Places these people wherever with no consideration of the problems/issues these people have, the local area, or other tenants that have the misfortune of being near them. Any assistance for these people is from a skeleton crew of mostly volunteers or chuggers, who ultimately fail in helping these people who they are really not qualified to assist with in the first place. A giant scam with a holier-than-thou figurehead, latest accounts show assets of €135m with an annual wage bill of €33m, I hear he was in the news again this week complaining. The man won't be happy til he is ruling his own ghetto funded by the public purse.

Social welfare in Ireland is way too generous in many cases. Able bodied people who are on the dole for more than two years should have their benefits cut very significantly.

Also the social housing given to scroungers is of way too high a standard, many of them are living in homes that are better than those of the working people who pay for them.

These opinions would be considered controversial if a politician uttered them, but most people know that they are correct.