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

Although I wouldn't go that far I do think that team sports are over promoted and if there was more promotion and encouragement of individual sports you;d have fewer people quitting sport and probably we'd unearth lots of top quality sports men and women we never knew we had.Not everyone is suited to team sports and looking back I wish I had more opportunities or as encouraged to do an individual sport when I was younger.

Only one problem, where do the defaulters go? If they have lost their home because they can no longer house themselves, then it's onto social housing lists, with government not building nearly enough houses for decades, they will be buying more and more private houses for social tenants.

private buyers competing with the state, who have endless resources, haven't a hope of buying a home.

100%

We are supposedly a diverse and tolerant country but my God, the sheer amount of people in Ireland who do literally nothing but work and drink is staggering. Their whole lives are based around the next trip to the pub or wedding or any venue where they can just drink all night. I get the social element, fair enough, but you can be social without getting drunk.

And its especially prevelant in younger people. In my last job, the lads in their 20s and 30s would talk about nothing else but drink, their favorite pubs and the next gaa match where they could get drunk afterwards. Its sad that so many people in Ireland have nothing to talk about besides drinking, when you have hiking, sports, hobbies, painting, debating etc etc.

Even with the current planning permission (which should probably be changed to a noise allowance to take into account quieter modern planes and switched to 12-6), 65 flights (one every 8 minutes) could go overhead during the night, they seem to be arguing about 25 more night flights as if that was the breaking point for something that's been known is going to happen for decades.

It is really, one of the most amazing things to do (I have a wonderful daughter). To give life to another human being.

That said, the super mummies like Yvonne Keating and Rosanna Davison to name two, that have a team of cleaners, makeup people, marketing etc, boil my blood. That isn’t normal or to be congratulated. We could all be super mummies if we married well and had a team of staff to clean our mess.

A few years ago the US womens team tried to push for this. When it turned out they were actually getting more than the mens team they very quickly had little to say about it.

But just popping out a kid, the act which makes one a mother, is not an achievement.

The poster was making the point that Hannah didn’t even do that much, that she did nothing more than the bucketloads of men who have performed well after their wives/girlfriends gave birth:

https://www.irishmirror.ie/lifestyle/inside-dublin-gaa-star-hannah-30717451

I can see why their opinion might be considered controversial 😬

There might even be something to it if men in GAA circles hadn’t historically been given the credit for their wives producing half a hurling team of children 😂

Not sure how lower house prices would make people default. Might have trouble moving,but I'd imagine you'd get less defaulters with lower costs.

I think it's an achievement for a sexually active woman not to have children.

It takes planning to prevent pregnancy.

Same goes for men using condoms, obviously.

History tells us they default when falling house prices result in negative equity. You don`t have to be very old to remember that. When house prices are falling, you also get fewer buyers because everyone will wait for them to bottom and they wouldn`t have to wait long. Asset prices go up via the staircase and down by jumping out the window. The government (be they FF, FG or SF) will do everything they can to stop that from happening. If they fail, then aspiring homeowners have a chance.

The government would win a lot more if there will be a lot more houses built, the taxes on the building activities and trades would be a lot more than the LPT. And then when the building is finished there will be more houses to pay LPT to offset the drop in price. And then the general economic growth would bring even more taxes. So there are much more economic incentives to actually encourage building more houses.

Who is going to build all these houses? Where are all these tradesmen going to appear out of?

I know there are. But you see business say they're being charged x amount per month, but for them to be charged the amount they claim they'd need to be taking tens of thousands of euro by card per month. The charges to loge cash are much higher also.