Things you hate about Irish culture

how even before covid we hero worship businesses, business people and businesses owners. Putting them on pedestals a billion kilometres into the sky… John and Mary Kelly after 10 years sweat, toil and hard work, just expanded and opened their second hair salon…

you rarely or never see or hear about people providing services….like airport workers on a freezing January night loading bags and cargo….dangerous enough and uncomfortable enough environment….and certainly the pay is not commensurate with the risks, efforts or conditions …

Well compared to other countries, like the Germans tried to force the Polish to give up their language, they obvs didn't.

The Serbians tried to force Kosovars to give up Albanian, they didn't either.

Very unpopular fact in some higher circles but spot on.

The main difference between Miggledy and Kim Jung is that Miggledy was elected. Twice.

In terms of housing Ireland is a terrible disaster for a so called first world country. Middle class will Tut Tut about the homeless and secretly enjoy watching their house prices increase.

Ireland also has fallen behind badly in built infrastructure , Asian countries are leap frogging ahead by just 'getting **** done ' instead of **** around for the last twenty five years or so like Irish governments have .

Lack of ambition in govt and civil servant circles , but even in the private sector could be much better.

The quality of foodstuffs is great but the food many people eat is terrible muck. Chippers three in one and slpce bags, pizza chains , Eddie rockets, service station forecourts with kids stuffing massive amounts of sweet ice cream down their gobs and very few decent coffee shops. Ireland has a huge obesity problem people just take on too many calories.

Lack of decent gym chains also puzzles me!!

Pubs still pretty good though..

Flyefit appeaar to be doing well.

They have about 20 gyms, just in Dublin.

Drink, and the sheer number of people unable to enjoy anything without it. A friend of mine who's a musician thats off the drink describes alcoholism as an occupational hazard.

Quite a large amount of people that are described as "savage craic/mad bastards" are as dull as dishwater once removed from the pub.

If you've hobbies other than drink, GAA, soccer or horse racing, you've little to no support with resources at best or seen as a weirdo or even suspicious at worst.

Nobody with money can do any wrong i.e "Mr. X is a pr1ck" . "Ah but he made his money so fair play".

This notion we are so friendly, how many times have you said hello to some ignorant Irish man who is staring at you to be met with a blank stare and no reply and maybe even a dirty look? look how a huge amount of Irish people drive now, so aggressive and selfish, we aren't as friendly as everyone makes out.

The last final paragraph.

Needless use of words.

Not a solely Irish trait.

Our obsession with telling everyone what great drinkers we are. We’re not. We just think we are. Weird thing to be boasting about as well

The Greenlanders are probably as busy at that

I think this is particularly with Irish people who are/have been in regular contact with relatives in Amerikay, and have exchanged visits etc. I’ve relatives in California I met once, who are particularly educated and would likely be, though not expressively so, pro Dem. I met them, all younger folk college going, reading Shakespeare etc. I also have relatives east coast, never met but connected on genealogy site and very friendly, offering me holiday accommodation but would be very pro Trump.

On my mother’s father’s side were two brothers who fought on opposite sides in the American Civil War. I do love genealogy, but don’t go all-American on it 🤣

Touched a nerve? I pointed out malpractice and you come back with that. Do u take cards ?

Great.

You can love your country without loving every single aspect of the culture!

the need to be liked as a country is a bit annoying , although I expect it’s common with other small countries. From travelling to different countries though we do seem very well liked, maybe it’s the want to try keep that up.

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Wakes. Irish people are very entitled when it comes to the grief of others. Always hear about the same arseholes using them as an excuse to drink. Great to see more and more people refusing to host this pish in recent times.

Marty, duignan and Ursula.

The infantile need for attention.

"The Brits couldn't beleeeeve that them lads are amateur"

Gaelscoil elbows.

Tugging the forelock whilst picking the pocket.

It's a fantastic country, but sometimes I think we need to grow up a bit.

Whilst I'm on it, failure to recognise some outstanding sporting achievements. Simply qualifying for an olympic games is remarkable.

The rugby sevens team were absolutely brilliant, Gave everything they had, played really well, had no luck, and are forgotten instead of celebrated for instance (and I'm a hurling man)

Like you I don't have any figures to back up what I'm saying but I reckon Ireland would be in the top 10 percentile of populations that have travelled abroad.

In a wide group of friends,family,work colleagues etc I don't know anybody who has never left the country.