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

Some shouldn’t, such as horse racing. September gone they were gifted 72.8 million in taxpayers money. Irish breeding and racing industry are worth sometimes billions per year according to their own stats they generate about 1.8 billion in economic activity.

then again the reality is some definitely should get it, athletics, soccer clubs ( not the FAI, just direct to clubs) cricket, and lots minority sports, it’s an investment in health, fitness, activity, entertainment….

Agree that governments should invest to make sport cheaper/more accessible for amateurs. They should not be investing in professional sports though, or any organisation that earns through sale of tickets, advertising etc.

For example we shouldn't need a professional women's football league in order to encourage girls to participate in amateur football, and i really don't think it does help towards adult female participation.

The notion of Irish people being friendly & social is complete horseshit.

I've noticed Irish people are one of the most unfriendly and least social group of people in Europe.

I find work colleagues in the UK and Europe are far more open and friendly than most of my Irish counterparts.

I've been on more organised work nights out when working in the UK and Europe than I've had with the Irish work group.

Yes. I have no idea how the reputation came about, apart from great marketing. We will be friendly if we are prepared for socialising, and we are quite patient to endure the warmth of other cultures, but generally we don't go seeking out interactions and it doesn't come naturally to us.

I guess the plus point is that we are fairly humble and genuine, and not ostentatious. Maybe that is considered friendly to other cultures, rather than our interpretation of friendly being outgoing and bubbly.

I don't care about women pundits at men's football matches, some of them are useless, some are good, most of them somewhere in the middle. Same as the men but you should be able to criticise them without being called sexist.

Aluko was mocked for her "he has 40 goals in 90 games, you do the math, that's a goal a game" and was complaining about it. Neville was too after Spain scored 7 following his "there's no goals in this team" remark, he laughed it off.

Also the over clarifications are grating too "he's the first person to score in 4 consecutive games ... at the Mens World Cup". Yes, thank you, I'm watching the Mens WC, he hardly did it in the Women's. Why stop there though why not include the U20s World Cups in the records or the Homeless Football WC etc....

The English Market is poky and a bit rubbish compared to other markets around Europe.

The one in Belfast is superior.

Humans survived the ice age, But you think a little bit of global warming is going to kill them out in 100 years,

Here's one for you people are part of the bio sphere, we are not separate ,We are no different to plants or other animals this planet grow us so we are the planet, like a flower on a tree , So technically the planet is killing itself ,

Also 99% of things that ever lived on this planet are now extinct so one day ( a long time away) we will be no different ,

They don't want them ergo they don't need them to socialise. It's being plonked in a bunch of people they don't choose to be with.

very controversial 😉

Crime and rates of crime is increasing, the standard of our education system is plummeting and will only get worse with class sizes in every level of education increasing , high inflation and higher taxes going hand in hand for jobs that have many more people competing for them that also drives wages lower… low child mortality we do good, life expectancy is slightly ahead of the EU average.

we don’t have good healthcare… sorry but I had to discover this the hard way.

i certainly wouldnt be taking that chap seriously in regards economic and political ideologies, again, the problem is ultimately with our current version of capatalism, the idea of perpetual growth only truly was introduced to capitalism when this form was introduced, i.e. 70's/80's, we were warned of its issues in works such as 'the limits to growth' in the early 70's, we largely ignored these warnings, and here we are....

again, capitalism wasnt always like this, pre limits to growth....