Have we lost our Patriotism?

Jesus Christ ACD, but you don't half make sweeping statements without a semblance of an attempt to back them up at times

I think posts like this are a bit problematic in terms of how biased they are. Let's list everything bad about the past, brush off one bad thing about the present, and call that a reasonable comparison.

No mention of widespread drug use, mass immigration driving an unsustainable society (through increased consumption, carbon generation, and building over more land rather than re-wilding) and threatening to drown out our own culture, people stuck in their parents' homes unable to move out and live their own life (and a similar problem when it comes to affording to start a family), pre-teens being sent abroad to be given puberty blockers (often by an organisation which has since been shut down for incredibly concerning practices in that area - there's a scandal brewing there that'll match the Magdalene Laundries), increased obesity and the increasing prevalence of shite food (often forcefully marketed at kids), mobile phone addiction, the prevalence of "I'm offended" as a rational argument, and so on.

This is the Ireland people like you support. Often these posts are tinged with a strange self-loathing too.

What your post fails to contemplate is that as a society, we had a change to address the issues you raise (and they're relevant, and mostly actually resolved now), yet we've just replaced them with worse issues. And you don't attempt to find positives from the past - a greater sense of community, a more sustainable way of living, a more equal society (because now we utilise poor foreigners to push down wages on low-skilled jobs, and force them back towards the tenement ways of living we had been leaving behind), arguably even a society more at ease with itself, for all its problems.

Which is correct? A mix of both I'd guess. But in your attempts to blindly dismiss everything about the past as bad, you override any attempt at a rational discussion on the issues. Which ultimately, I guess, is what the thread is about.

You need to do better.

I think you did dismiss it tbh - your post seemed clear enough. Past bad - present fine. Nothing really beyond that.

Is general well-being a lot better for all now? With drug use, huge debts, a lack of housing, a loss of culture and identity, huge issues coming very quickly down the line in terms of climate and sustainability (that immigration - and indeed our own emigration - is contributing towards)?

Your posts - a bit like acd's - seem a bit shallow in that regard.

Here's another poster coming along with the simplistic line of "immigration good; we just haven't built enough houses"

This is going slightly off topic I acknowledge, but do you want to tell me where you see sustainability in our current rush to keep perpetually increasing our population?