Things you hate about Irish culture

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It's telling that many, mainly urban, Polish people who live here could tell you more about nature and the outdoors than many an Irish farmer that works while surrounded by nature everyday. I couldn't get over the numbers of Polish people climbing and hiking around the mountains here.

The making money comment is very true. We never lost the gombeen man, we knew the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I'm not saying that the health service is great, by all means it has many problems, mostly managerial and cultural but it is not in any means as bad as a third world country. Fair enough and right to compare to OECD countries but not Third World.

Go to a third world country and you could be in life danger from a broken bone due to lack of services ie they simply don't exist and then you'll understand.

Gaelgoirs, esp the ones in academia drive the myriad of pressure groups and quangoes, often competing duplicates of each other, costing millions, and thus government policies, frequently implemented in a half arsed way.

Ordering the translation of reams of obscure EU documents regular people (or anyone realistically) will never read doesn't come from pressure from the electorate.

I think most Irish people are patriotic and therefore would like to speak Irish fluently but they way it is taught in schools isn't the right way.

I didn't mention anything about forcing anyone to learn it, don't put words in my mouth.

Well I think they deserve credit for having the Irish language recognised as an official EU language and your point about myriads of quangos and costing millions is greatly exaggerated and just sounds bitter.

It would be completely wrong to just let the language die as you want and it's good to see it's revival over the last number of years.

The well-meaning "I'd love to learn it but..."

People aren't bothered, they just say this all of the time to appear supportive and not offend. They haven't a bulls notion of learning it. There's heaps of resources but they choose not to use them.

It's funny how the very same people will find the time and spend money and go all out to do and learn things they really want to do.

You come across as someone who doesn't want Irish people learning it and you seem to look down on people who want to learn it.

Sorry but spouting nonsense about wasted money and how useless the language is not indifference, it's the very opposite in fact.

We're all speaking English and that's not going to change but language is more than a tool it's an expression of culture and part of our heritage and we should not want to lose that.

That miserable oul yoke Peig single handedly killed off any love of the Irish language for anyone who had to study it for the Leaving Cert!

Not for a second am I advocating for puppy farms, they're awful places and disagree with anyone who buys a dog when there's endless shelters that are full of them. I have two kittens that I've rescued from the DSPCA myself.

However why "should we all have an interest in it"? What difference does it make if I know the difference between a rabbit and a hare or a jackdaw from a rook?

I'd never ever hurt any animal and never knowingly or willingly destroy their habitat but I don't have an interest in different types of birds, that's a hobby not something that we all need to have an interest in.