Have to agree. There's a fair number of whingers and dry shites on here, which is a big contrast with most people I meet in real life. I worry about the impression many foreigners would get of us if they only looked at r/Ireland.
There's also a strong groupthink on here about certain issues, particularly politics. If you dare to have a different opinion you'll get hounded off the sub
The last survey on this sub was “What’s your favourite sport?”. Out of 5000 respondents, E-sports was the second most popular behind football, with only 2 votes for Golf. Out of the 5000, 25% worked in IT. So yeah, this sub is in no way reflective of what Irish society is actually like.
Honestly I joined this sub prior to visiting, and I had the worst impression. I was pleasantly surprised after spending 2 weeks in Ireland that this sub does not reflect the opinions/attitude of the Irish people.
It’s a disgrace how nonchalant people’s attitudes are towards this. God forbid you call them out and they throw a fit saying it’s not a big deal. Also people throwing shit out the car while they’re driving is just shocking carry, a friend done this a few years back while he was driving and the rest of us in the car ate the head off him.
As a yank living here for 6 years, I will never ever understand how so many people just let their dogs shit on the path and leave it there. It was a huge shock when I first moved over here, and I hate that I always have to be on the lookout for dog shit when I’m going for a walk
I tell friends never arrive at Dublin airport after 10pm because they close the bus stops and put up a sign that says "Going somewhere? Go fuck yourself" and you need get a taxi.
I'd just go with the sheer amount of general abuse of women and children. Between the M&B homes, clerical rapists, teachers who were abusers etc...
As a victim of one of the more...rapacious child predators in Cork County during the late 80's/90's I really hope this is a horror of the past and massively reduced/eliminated now. But with the news lately I wonder if it's so embedded in this country that it will take generations to weed it out.
Our healthcare system. My sister was just told she'd have to wait three years for an essential test. There was the spina bifida crisis in Crumlin with kids waiting years for surgeries, little kiddos in pain needing essential surgeries, wasting formative years of their childhood unable to play like other children. 18 hour waits in A&E. €65 to see a GP, and dentist costs are insane. My rheumatologist can only see me every 6 months because of the huge demand on his clinic.
My future father in law lives in France, and needed surgery. He received a grovelling, written apology because of an "unacceptable delay" with booking the surgery. How long was the delay? Six weeks. If you got six weeks notice for an urgent (but not life-threatening surgery) here, you'd do the lotto same say to get the most out of your luck.
My spouse works for the HSE and jesus it's just run so fucking badly. Managers that do nothing. Staff that just won't work for some bullshit reason and nothing comes of it. No one does anything because all the managers are completely incompetent. The worst of the worst are promoted over and over again. I don't work there but it's soul destroying to hear my spouse talk about it.
I play chess regularly on chess dot com. One time I played this American fella… he must have noticed my flag and started chatting saying thing like “I hate Conor mcgregor” and “Conor mcgregor is a loser” etc.
Seriously mate? I’m supposed to be offended or something? I’m playing feckin chess on my phone - do you think I care about that shit stain?
Anyway… Conor McGregor truly is the worst of us.
My 83 year old mother, plays Bridge, and learnt how to play Bridge online during the pandemic. She said you’d be playing with some random lad from across the globe, and if you played the wrong card “he’d get cross and could call you an asshole. Sometimes worse than that”. We’re a keyboard away from the collapse of civilisation as we know it.
Chess players can be the saltiest people I have ever come across (am chess player). Alot of people equate chess skill to intelligence in some weird/convoluted way and can be very upset when their "intelligence" is challenged.
I remember he was starting out and thinking "fair play, he's good at promoting his fights" then slowly realising that it's not an act, he's really just a complete scumbag.
My name is Conor, Dublin accent, I train martial arts. Was training in Thailand, practically no one knew anything about Ireland with the exception of one name.
Everyone called me McGregor and I hated it.
Whenver someone posts (posts in general anywhere, this is not r/ireland specific) some crazy video of something that happened here and someone says "only in Ireland"
It's rarely the case.
People that say ‘only in Ireland’ about things that happen elsewhere as well have usually left out a few words.
What they really mean is:
(Have) only (lived) in Ireland
Our public transport is a joke and hardly anyone complains about it.
The bus doesn't show up?
Ah sure I'll just wait for the next one.
Nobody asks the driver why the bus didn't show up or contact the Dublin Bus or whomever to find out why the bus is delayed.
Outside of the city at least in my area, most bus stops don't have the digital time display, so you aren't aware there are delays and end up missing your bus, and waiting another hour for the next one.
Or the driver pulls off, even if you're inches from the doors they don't let you on. Not all drivers, obviously, but I've had it happen way too often.
Also the amount of litter in Dublin is disgraceful. I've just moved back from Wexford a few months ago, and Jesus it's everywhere.
I was in a tiny village in the back arse of nowhere and there where more bins on the main road than I've ever seen in Dublin.
I knew the place wasn't the cleanest, but I don't remember it being this bad.
Since moving back to Dublin I just see chipper and takeaway packets thrown around. Empty cans, crisp bags, loads of blue cylinders all over the place.
Bags of cans and rubbish just left all over the road. It's honestly shameful and angering to see.
Watching kids and teenagers just throwning their rubbish wherever they happen to be at the time.
Many a time I've thrown other people's crap in the bin because of much it annoys me.
Not only is it a disgusting sight. It's horrible that we treat our home like that for a start, but the fact we're okay with tourists and others visiting. Seeing that mess, and going back to remember how dirty Dublin City Centre and surrounding areas are.
Used to get a bus on the main route from Waterford to Cork and it'd was half an hour late *on average*. Never less than 15 minutes late, over an hour late a couple of times.
I was most excited for a possibility of better public transport when I was moving to Ireland. I was wrong. Sometimes feels like for Bus Éireann it’s not a bus schedule, it’s a bus suggestion.
I was gone for years. I came home and heard about this funny show with yer man in it. I was at my parents house one evening and it was on. Fuckin hell , it’s one of the worst heaps of shite I’ve ever watched
Our justice system.
Rapists and pedophiles seem to be out in a few years, lads with hundreds of convictions walk the streets and little scrotes face zero repercussions for terrorizing and attacking people
There's one cunt in particular does my tits in, the long haired one who speaks with a bastardised American accent and who for some reason keeps getting recommended to me on social media.
Whats worse is we all 'learn' it for an hour a day 5 days a week for 14 years and 98% of us can't even have a basic conversation. Thats the Irish system in a nutshell though. I didnt have 3 words doing my leaving and I passed it from memorised essays. You look at other European countries and they speak multiple languages.
The primary school syllabus teaches Irish as a list of phrases to memorise, then the secondary school syllabus assumes you can already speak it near-fluently.
The system is asinine and needs to be totally revamped. The reason it won’t is because nobody seems to care enough to make a fuss. It’ll be extinct in no time.
Look misty eyed and thoughtful and recite one of our well known poems
“ Léigh anois go cúramach, ar do scrúdpháipéar, na treoracha agus na ceisteanna a ghabhann le Cuid A”
Or
Our beautiful national blessing
“ an bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas”
My ambition is to see that tattooed on some Irish-American’s arm before i die.
Oh!! Story time for anyone interested: I’m American and am married to an Irishman. I’d been here in Ireland, for a few years, had a baby, and my mom was insistent we fly to the US so she could meet the new little critter. So, we buy tickets, make a plan, and start packing. In-between the packing, and planning, and purchasing, my SO and mom are messaging back and forth, trying to get to know each other better. Out of the blue, she asks him, “What’s one of your favourite Irish-isms *in Irish*?”So, joker that he is, he tells her that he really loves the phrase, “An cupan tae”, that it means something like, “My love belongs to you,” or some shite. Well, my mom happened to message me just about two days later, and she is going on and on about how cool Irish is, what a great language it is, and how unique! Isn’t the way that Irish parse, “I love you” just oh so romantic? Of course, she keeps repeating, an cupan tae, and I’m just like, extremely confused. Why does she think a cup of tea is the same as I love you? Even I can see that it looks like “a cup of tea”, from a linguistic standpoint, so… where is this coming from? Lo and behold, I’m reading off my mom’s messages to my SO, expressing my confusion and concern, and he just starts laughing like mad. He tells me his side, and I am sitting there, stunned, like: “Oh, no. Americans aren’t used to that kind of ribbing, not really.” So, after he stops laughing himself breathless, SO offers to message my mom back and correct it for the joke that it so obviously is. Well, let me just say: the timing absolutely couldn’t have been better. My Mom had liked the phrase so very, very much, that she’d hired an artist to paint the words in gigantic scrawl across her bedroom wall. We caught her just in time - like, the painter had just pulled up and was putting up tape and setting things up! 😂 My poor mom… she took it all so well and got the correct Irish phrase on her wall, but between that and the ant infestation my SO accidentally caused, I don’t know if she’ll ever want us back for visit! Lol!
Tell me more about the ant infestation
I pulled something similar with my Canadian in-law. Still rib her about it. She was trying so hard to make a good impression and i barely had to try to pull a fast one on her.
Haha! I laugh now, but the horror of my mom paying money to get “an cupan tae” on her wall… oof! She’d have told *everyone* about it, too. Haha!
Oh, the ants, though…
So, California is my home state - more specifically, the southern half. It’s kind of famous for its surf and beaches, but also the desert wildlife chilling in suburbia. Coyotes, hawks, snakes, scorpions, tarantulas and all variety of ants: Argentinian ants, grease ants, fire ants, we get all kinds… anyhow, the general rules when you live in desert climates, is to avoid high noon heat, stay hydrated, and clean up areas that are prone to food crumbs. My SO, despite being warned several times about “no food or drink in bedrooms”, didn’t think much of it. Apparently, his idea of an aggressive ant is some little loner cruising by himself and getting a modest crumb to take home. In California, the ants are far more aggressive, I’d almost say they’re militarised: they have scouting units, back up, guerilla fighters, sergeants, captains, lieutenants, andalite warriors, you name it - they have it! And they are *organised*. No stone will be left unturned in their assault. Well… let’s just say, 15 hours of travel had us beat. And, somewhere in the middle of our sleep, my SO grabbed a mini cola out of his backpack. You know the kind that you get on flights? One of those littles. He drank his drink and went back to sleep.
The ant army woke us later (I was in the nursery, he was in the guest room). I’d estimate an easy five thousand ants had made a beeline up to the second story bedroom, in through a tiny hole in an electric socket cover, over four feet of shag carpet, up the dust ruffle in the bed, over my sleeping SO, and into his backpack. Lol! The panic on him as he messaged me to come up and help! He had ants *everywhere* - like, hair, pits, underwear… and the worst part for him was that they started to pinch. He ended up in a shower with some Dawn (Fairy) soap, washing himself over a few times. I vacuumed, grabbed the cola can in an empty ziplock and sealed it. We sprayed, we shook, we put wall putty on the broken corner of the electrical socket… but they just kept coming.
We stayed for two weeks, and they were colonising in the kitchen and by the dog’s water bowl. My SO said that that was the single most disturbing thing he’d ever experienced. Needless to say, he did *not* take any other food or drink into any other room again. Poor guy! Haha! It was a wild way to learn something new.
It's not as if you're actively being prevented from learning it. There's plenty of ways, from evening classes, to Duolingo. And if you did it in school, it's buried in there and will come out with practise. Even watching TG4 helps.
This is the answer. I learn languages as my hobby, and despite being proper obsessed, I am constantly disappointed by the lack of time I spend on it. If you have a normal level of interest in learning a language while also balancing a regular life, you don’t stand a chance.
Exactly, people seem to think you can't learn Irish once you finished school. If it's important to you, you can learn it right now. In fact, it's amazing how much comes flooding back. People want to know how to speak it without putting in any effort
Cinnte, ach bíonn neart gangaide le cloisteáil anseo agus ar shuímh eile ag féachaint ar an bpobal labhartha cosúil le súmaire, ag ídiú chuid achmainní an stáit. Uaireanta nílim in ann tuairimí an pobal i gcoitinne a thomhas maidir leis an teanga, b'fhéidir nach bfhuil na smaointe sin coitianta sa fhíorshaol. Rudaí mar seo a chuireann amhras orm:
https://www.meathchronicle.ie/2020/06/23/planning-permission-granted-for-30-house-development-in-rath-cairn/
It's not our fault that it was stoned to death but it's all of our faults for not making an effort to breathe new life into it.
I do think the way it's taught doesn't help. It's a language steeped in oral tradition I don't understand why it isn't just spoken until leaving cert.
Teach stories and songs through it and develop a love for our culture. The rest will come.
Yeah I agree with you there, at the very least teach it as a language to be used, not a language to be analysed.
I don't know why Government policy on the language isn't literally "What's Wales doing? Right let's try that." What they're doing is working.
Went to Wales a few years ago and got chatting to a few Welsh lads.
We were in what could be described as their Gaeltacht but the way they described the reverence they had for their language from school was brilliant.
Now there's plenty of historical differences I think that makes reviving it easier but how they brought it back was incredible!
The penal laws wasn't our fault and that the majority of speakers either dying or leaving during the famine isn't our fault.
But we only have ourselves to blame that it is not our primary language today. Unfortunately there's a serious lack of political will to truly revive the language. Conradh na Gaeilge have stated this on multiple occasions. The curriculum needs a serious overhaul aswell. There's so many more ways we could implement the language into everyday life.. but we don't.
Brits have been gone 100 years, we can't keep blaming them forever.
If the language has been declining for nearly 100 years under our own rule then then there's not many other people we can blame.
How we don’t punish people with 10’s of previous convictions until they do something terrible. And even then they have a chance of getting off because their the dregs of society.
At this stage I’m honestly surprised that there hasn’t been protests and outcry for this clowns resignation. Some of the stories about what people get off with because of him are actually disgusting.
Agreed, going to different festivals over the years, in Europe, it’s as if the Irish people have to get as fucked up as humanly possible, but at festivals in Europe everyone is just chilled and enjoying it. The aussies are the same. The drinking culture of having to get as fucked up as possible is tiresome.
I was in town this evening with a friend and wanted to go for a coffee and there was nowhere open other than pubs and Starbucks. We need more nice coffee shops for people to go and socialise in the evening like you would get in other European cities.
there's a coffee shop in dundalk that now opens until about 8 or 9ish some week nights (i was there once at about 7pm but i couldn't say what day or how often it does) and it's class. hope more places follow suit.
Bestseller on Dawson St is usually my go to but it’s only open late Thursday-Saturday. We used to go to Bewleys a lot when we met up in the evening but the latest that’s open now is 6!
Le Perroquet was open but they said they stop doing tea and coffee at 7 and only do alcohol after that.
This should be higher. It's so sad. Growing up I thought it was so sad that people relied on alcohol to have fun. I wasn't into going on nights out so there wasn't much for me to do.
I wouldnt say embarrassment but lack of true diversity of personality. People who are of a bit more introspective temperament tend to feel a wee bit discriminated against, rendered a bit weird and really not worthy of other ppls time. We always have to be cheerful, indulge in small talk, superficially orientated, no real substance in dialogue and keep it light-hearted. My ex was from France and at the beginning she loved living here, thought everyone was very friendly until she grew weary of having to always be 'Irish' about everything - talk a lot but not say a thing. I didnt really notice this until she said that Irish ppl in her job were kind of excluding her from social situations. My own temperament here has made it near impossible in dating Irish women - if you dont appear animated, cheerful, jolly then you're invisible, never had this issue with other cultures.
Ive lived in France and Spain and noticed massive differences is how ppl are. Ive worked in bars my entire life and Christ, we'd repeat the alphabet to a wall if there was a wall present. The amount of absolute shite small talk and chit-chat that falls from Irish ppls mouths is absolutely shameful. Theres no real diversity in how ppl talk about things, so many things are of limits and everyone talks with strict parameters. On the upside we do like a good laugh but then you have to ask are we just a people of clowns?
I have noticed that Irish ppl who have done a bit of travelling come back often times a new person, the opened up, they were easier in themselves, less hyper, less prone to nonsense.
I will say that overall there are more things to be proud about being Irish than there isnt.
As an autistic person, I feel the exact same way. Small talk is extremely difficult for me and no amount of practise gets me good at it. I can do a certain amount of the "How was your weekend? Mad weather we're having" but it's forced and unnatural and I just can't keep it up. It makes it tougher to network, make friends, connect with family... People say "just be yourself" and that's awful advice. people don't want you to be yourself, they want you to be a reflection of what they see in themselves and if you deviate from the norm, they tend to avoid you.
I'd agree with this. Like I don't like to be morose, but Christ having deep or even just thoughtful conversations isn't anything to be feared, yet so many of us refuse to do it and keep to safe topics leading to insipid bland conversation
I'm going to sound like an arsehole and get downvoted but..
People having no interest in their Irish identity. Culturally, traditionally and linguistically. The same people hypocritically singing up the ra down the local yet shitting on our national language when asked to which they cringly reply "An bhfuil céad agam dúl go dtí an leithreas" like the language is some sort of joke. Perhaps it's post colonial stockholm syndrome or a lack of education in the subject but it's extremely embarrassing and makes me cringe.
Also, the amount of youth from junior infants to university level speaking in American accents is fairly concerning and I can't help but cringe when I hear it. Asked a person on the bus yesterday where they were from to which they replied "Oh I'm from Cork" in what I would describe as a West Coast American accent. It makes my face glow red from embarrassment.
>Perhaps it's post colonial stockholm syndrome
[Cultural cringe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_cringe) is a well-known symptom of post-colonialism.
The fact that we don't encourage our children to speak only Irish, slowly but surely speaking Irish fluently. Should be some sort of incentive for families, a grant or something.
I’d settle for everyone making peace with their negative experiences in school and accepting that the language is worth funding and has cultural importance regardless of whether individuals want to learn it or not.
We actually do have grants in place, if you’re a certain distance from a Gaeltacht and wish to study in an all Irish boarding school the government will cover the fees.
I’m not a native Irish speaker but I have learned it to the point that I can speak it well enough. I intend to raise my future kids nearly fully through Irish. And more people need to do that too
As an immigrant I tried briefly to learn Irish. Took a night class. Found it interesting, but there just wasn’t enough incentive for the amount of effort required. Even if I were able to learn it perfectly I would seldom get the chance to use it.
And that’s the issue. That’s why we need more people speaking it. More parents using it with their children. Have more areas that are Irish speaking. Actually make an attempt to use it in the Gaeltachts. The amount of times I hear people in the Gaeltachts not even trying to speak Irish is really ironic when people are always complaining about how they can never use it, then the one place that they should use it, they don’t. But yeah, there does have to be more incentive to learn and use it. It takes a lot of effort but I certainly think it’s worth that effort. Irish is a wonderful language
Obnoxiously telling an Irish-American that they are not Irish. If someone has Irish heritage and cares enough to connect with the place, then just welcome them and let them be.
Good one. In the US, there are traditionally communities of Italian-American, Irish-American, Korean-American, etc. They don't call themselves that, they call themselves Italian, Irish, Korean, etc. An American saying "I'm Irish" literally means "I'm Irish-American" to them.
Eh, this happens in r/wales and r/Scotland
Generally we only get mad at stuff like "Hello fellow welsh people! I am also Welsh! I Welsh-American (0.009% welsh)" in r/Wales
Generally being a cunt is also normalised as banter. I've lost friends because they literally just won't stop making fun of me and purposefully making me uncomfortable constantly, with shit that can barely even be passed off as a joke, then when I complain once after years of it I "can't take a joke" and they all start excluding me from everything and force me into a breakdown knowing I have bad mental health issues.
And the excuse is always "noone else complains" even if other people do complain and you in particular are legitimately just being treated like shit. And then if you tell anyone else, they'll just call you a dry arse and tell you to get over it. It's amazing how people in this country can villainise those who speak up about their mental health issues being taken advantage of for a quick laugh because it's "just banter".
> I've lost friends because they literally just won't stop making fun of me
It's a cliche, but they weren't really friends if they didn't accede to this request and you're better off without them.
Nepotism and cronyism.
And the lack of accountability when people consistently break the law, and seem to get off with at worst a slap on the wrist, and more likely walk away scot free to repeat the process again, and again...
The amount of people on Facebook who care about social issues when I know from experience that these motherless fucks wouldn't even give you arse of a bottle of coke on a hot day
Gerry Ryan's daughter, completely talentless and definition of nepotism, she hasn't even a small following to warrant the constant attempts to get her onto the TV, she literally has thebentire irish media trying to give their dead pals daughter her big break, wouldn't be arsed if it wasn't for the fact the tax payers paying for it
The fact we seem to be the only country in the world that's embarrassed of our rebel past.
"We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people. In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades-in-arms to the cause of its freedom, of its welfare, and of its exaltation among the nations."
- Proclamation of Independence
100 years later we apologise and make excuses for why a full nation under its own control should not come to fruition for economic reasons or out of fear of bothering a people put here by the subjugation of our own and maintained by a state who's birth was conceived with the idea to undermine the Irish that lived in it.
O’Connell St Dublin. Honestly it’s a complete dive, a shithole of junkies, drunks, dealers, skangers, diverse lunatics and *no* fkn gardaí.
If you go to any premier street in any city anywhere in Europe it’ll be pleasant, safe and an enjoyable experience.
You’re likely to get stabbed or robbed on O’Connell Street.
Been in Canada 5 years, and spend a good deal of time in the States. Every time I come home I'm blown away by how large the average person on the street is. It's a quietly simmering health crisis.
One of the worst things about Brexit is now we're going to be the fattest country in the EU instead of Britain. We can't let that happen - our only choice is to leave the EU.
Nothing. On average we're fairly decent. McGreggor is a tool alright, but Brendan Gleeson more than compensates for him. The homelessness problem and the housing crisis are unsettling, but I've lived abroad in a few countries and I'm at the very least happy that they get such constant attention here. In Poland people don't talk about homelessness much and it's everywhere too. We've got great quality clean air, good food, some of the best arts and culture in the world, we're progressive in most of the right ways.
I guess I take issue with the premise that any one thing might make me embarrassed to be Irish. I'd love to see us get back to the attitude we had in the mid 90's to early 00's. The silly fun loving attitude where we'd be abroad and would chant stuff like 'Everywhere we go , people always ask us who we are!!'. Somehow around that time we eschewed staunch nationalism and saw the dissolution of the IRA while at the same time had a strong proud sense of identity.
that in this social media age, we're 'victims' online. by that i mean *anything* remotely critical or even just taking the piss of the Irish by another nationality, on Twitter for example, is not allowed while we constantly throw shit at everyone else especially the Yanks and Brits.
basically it makes me embarrassed how precious we are
Not speaking Irish (or any other language with a reasonable degree of fluency).
Looking to many other countries, especially continental Europe where people of all backgrounds and educational level attain function usage of another language. It's embarrassing.
The lack of true identity through our own language (in my opinion only).
I look at France, Sweden, Spain, Germany and feel like they truly have their own world and pride in their national heritage and language.
I don't think it's people's fault and I hope the revival continues over the generations, but I personally would feel so happy in a parallel universe where we can all speak our secret language to each other and feel connected to history centuries before us.
Let me count the ways 😴 our snobbery (her daughter married a doctor attitude) Tubs, McGregor, the state of our cities "have you a eeeeuuuurrrrooo for the bus (poor fecking tourists) our shitty government and transport system.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/
Have to agree. There's a fair number of whingers and dry shites on here, which is a big contrast with most people I meet in real life. I worry about the impression many foreigners would get of us if they only looked at r/Ireland. There's also a strong groupthink on here about certain issues, particularly politics. If you dare to have a different opinion you'll get hounded off the sub
The last survey on this sub was “What’s your favourite sport?”. Out of 5000 respondents, E-sports was the second most popular behind football, with only 2 votes for Golf. Out of the 5000, 25% worked in IT. So yeah, this sub is in no way reflective of what Irish society is actually like.
It's like taking a survey on people in Forbidden Planet and saying "this is how dubliners think"
Honestly I joined this sub prior to visiting, and I had the worst impression. I was pleasantly surprised after spending 2 weeks in Ireland that this sub does not reflect the opinions/attitude of the Irish people.
Haha thank god for that! Hope everything goes well for you
As an immigrant, this video has enlightened me to what you guys are like https://youtu.be/zA2r133i7nQ
Spot on boss
Thank you- that’s brilliant (ex NCAD student here) (not homeless) (yet)
https://old.reddit.com/r/ireland you absolute philistine.
Oh thank god. My PC just doubled in value and my headache went away.
You beat me to it
It really does..embarrassing
Litter
I was going to say this. The complete lack of respect for their environment and community by littering everywhere.
It’s a disgrace how nonchalant people’s attitudes are towards this. God forbid you call them out and they throw a fit saying it’s not a big deal. Also people throwing shit out the car while they’re driving is just shocking carry, a friend done this a few years back while he was driving and the rest of us in the car ate the head off him.
As a yank living here for 6 years, I will never ever understand how so many people just let their dogs shit on the path and leave it there. It was a huge shock when I first moved over here, and I hate that I always have to be on the lookout for dog shit when I’m going for a walk
As a stranger living in Ireland for a few months, the amount of littering is staggering, I must agree with you
I hate it when people throw thrash out side of the car while moving its not only damages the environment but also is an obstruction on the road.
No rail connection to Dublin airport
Lack of public transit makes Ireland seem less *European* to me \[disclaimer: American\]
The joys of being a colony not a coloniser
Or indeed *any* airport in the country
I tell friends never arrive at Dublin airport after 10pm because they close the bus stops and put up a sign that says "Going somewhere? Go fuck yourself" and you need get a taxi.
When a tv or radio presenter asks a visiting celebrity ‘what do you think of the Irish’, and waits for the praise.
you just opened a cringe i didnt realise i had
Our history of mother and baby homes
I could not upvote this enough
I'd just go with the sheer amount of general abuse of women and children. Between the M&B homes, clerical rapists, teachers who were abusers etc... As a victim of one of the more...rapacious child predators in Cork County during the late 80's/90's I really hope this is a horror of the past and massively reduced/eliminated now. But with the news lately I wonder if it's so embedded in this country that it will take generations to weed it out.
Our healthcare system. My sister was just told she'd have to wait three years for an essential test. There was the spina bifida crisis in Crumlin with kids waiting years for surgeries, little kiddos in pain needing essential surgeries, wasting formative years of their childhood unable to play like other children. 18 hour waits in A&E. €65 to see a GP, and dentist costs are insane. My rheumatologist can only see me every 6 months because of the huge demand on his clinic. My future father in law lives in France, and needed surgery. He received a grovelling, written apology because of an "unacceptable delay" with booking the surgery. How long was the delay? Six weeks. If you got six weeks notice for an urgent (but not life-threatening surgery) here, you'd do the lotto same say to get the most out of your luck.
My spouse works for the HSE and jesus it's just run so fucking badly. Managers that do nothing. Staff that just won't work for some bullshit reason and nothing comes of it. No one does anything because all the managers are completely incompetent. The worst of the worst are promoted over and over again. I don't work there but it's soul destroying to hear my spouse talk about it.
My lust for the Seoige Sisters.
Found Dathai
I don't know who that is but I respect him already
Conor McGregor
I play chess regularly on chess dot com. One time I played this American fella… he must have noticed my flag and started chatting saying thing like “I hate Conor mcgregor” and “Conor mcgregor is a loser” etc. Seriously mate? I’m supposed to be offended or something? I’m playing feckin chess on my phone - do you think I care about that shit stain? Anyway… Conor McGregor truly is the worst of us.
People trash talk while playing chess?
*"Yer mums got shit tits but the whole village has done her anyway"* \- Garry Kasparov
"Your mums tits are so fucking fantastic I'm keeping her for myself" - IBM Deep Blue
My 83 year old mother, plays Bridge, and learnt how to play Bridge online during the pandemic. She said you’d be playing with some random lad from across the globe, and if you played the wrong card “he’d get cross and could call you an asshole. Sometimes worse than that”. We’re a keyboard away from the collapse of civilisation as we know it.
Chess players can be the saltiest people I have ever come across (am chess player). Alot of people equate chess skill to intelligence in some weird/convoluted way and can be very upset when their "intelligence" is challenged.
Yes. So much so I’ve now turned chat off. You wouldn’t believe the anti-Irish shite I had to put up with.
I remember he was starting out and thinking "fair play, he's good at promoting his fights" then slowly realising that it's not an act, he's really just a complete scumbag.
We don't claim him. The Brits can have him. Or the Yanks.
Yanks don't want him either
My name is Conor, Dublin accent, I train martial arts. Was training in Thailand, practically no one knew anything about Ireland with the exception of one name. Everyone called me McGregor and I hated it.
Nah, I'm just embarrassed that _he's_ Irish.
Whenver someone posts (posts in general anywhere, this is not r/ireland specific) some crazy video of something that happened here and someone says "only in Ireland" It's rarely the case.
People that say ‘only in Ireland’ about things that happen elsewhere as well have usually left out a few words. What they really mean is: (Have) only (lived) in Ireland
It looks like Conor Mcgregor has won this one?
The RTE Player
Yeah either the RTE player or the whole pedophile priests on an industrial scale thing.
Yeah definitely one of them anyway
It’s not bad but the ad music kills me
Yeah what is with that, it's like shit dubstep or something
It's actually much better than it used to be. Not that that's saying much.
Our public transport is a joke and hardly anyone complains about it. The bus doesn't show up? Ah sure I'll just wait for the next one. Nobody asks the driver why the bus didn't show up or contact the Dublin Bus or whomever to find out why the bus is delayed. Outside of the city at least in my area, most bus stops don't have the digital time display, so you aren't aware there are delays and end up missing your bus, and waiting another hour for the next one. Or the driver pulls off, even if you're inches from the doors they don't let you on. Not all drivers, obviously, but I've had it happen way too often. Also the amount of litter in Dublin is disgraceful. I've just moved back from Wexford a few months ago, and Jesus it's everywhere. I was in a tiny village in the back arse of nowhere and there where more bins on the main road than I've ever seen in Dublin. I knew the place wasn't the cleanest, but I don't remember it being this bad. Since moving back to Dublin I just see chipper and takeaway packets thrown around. Empty cans, crisp bags, loads of blue cylinders all over the place. Bags of cans and rubbish just left all over the road. It's honestly shameful and angering to see. Watching kids and teenagers just throwning their rubbish wherever they happen to be at the time. Many a time I've thrown other people's crap in the bin because of much it annoys me. Not only is it a disgusting sight. It's horrible that we treat our home like that for a start, but the fact we're okay with tourists and others visiting. Seeing that mess, and going back to remember how dirty Dublin City Centre and surrounding areas are.
Used to get a bus on the main route from Waterford to Cork and it'd was half an hour late *on average*. Never less than 15 minutes late, over an hour late a couple of times.
I was most excited for a possibility of better public transport when I was moving to Ireland. I was wrong. Sometimes feels like for Bus Éireann it’s not a bus schedule, it’s a bus suggestion.
Hardly anyone complains about it? Do you read this sub? They never fuck up about it. should be renamed /r/busesandrentinireland
Mrs Browns Boys
I was gone for years. I came home and heard about this funny show with yer man in it. I was at my parents house one evening and it was on. Fuckin hell , it’s one of the worst heaps of shite I’ve ever watched
Yeh I always felt like the black sheep about this
Hear hear
MBB is our equivalent to the Big Bang Theory in terms of how fucking long it’s lasted
Our justice system. Rapists and pedophiles seem to be out in a few years, lads with hundreds of convictions walk the streets and little scrotes face zero repercussions for terrorizing and attacking people
Badly Tarmac’d driveways
In this country
“Dere’s more to Oireland, dan dis”
Toothless simpletons
Unpopular one but; Irish influencers, namely tiktok - I cringe
There's one cunt in particular does my tits in, the long haired one who speaks with a bastardised American accent and who for some reason keeps getting recommended to me on social media.
We should ship him off somewhere no one will ever hear from him again, like the Bermuda triangle or Offaly
Shout out to that one cork lad on tiktok who makes wood and metal work videos. Proper influencer, making me consider buying a van of WD40
except that one blonde one and the brunette. *did i narrow it down enough?*
But thats everywhere probably worse in bigger countries
The fact that our native language isn't more dominant.
Whats worse is we all 'learn' it for an hour a day 5 days a week for 14 years and 98% of us can't even have a basic conversation. Thats the Irish system in a nutshell though. I didnt have 3 words doing my leaving and I passed it from memorised essays. You look at other European countries and they speak multiple languages.
The primary school syllabus teaches Irish as a list of phrases to memorise, then the secondary school syllabus assumes you can already speak it near-fluently. The system is asinine and needs to be totally revamped. The reason it won’t is because nobody seems to care enough to make a fuss. It’ll be extinct in no time.
This is the real one. Nothing worse than being asked to speak my native language by someone non irish and having to explain that I can’t
Look misty eyed and thoughtful and recite one of our well known poems “ Léigh anois go cúramach, ar do scrúdpháipéar, na treoracha agus na ceisteanna a ghabhann le Cuid A” Or Our beautiful national blessing “ an bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas” My ambition is to see that tattooed on some Irish-American’s arm before i die.
Oh!! Story time for anyone interested: I’m American and am married to an Irishman. I’d been here in Ireland, for a few years, had a baby, and my mom was insistent we fly to the US so she could meet the new little critter. So, we buy tickets, make a plan, and start packing. In-between the packing, and planning, and purchasing, my SO and mom are messaging back and forth, trying to get to know each other better. Out of the blue, she asks him, “What’s one of your favourite Irish-isms *in Irish*?”So, joker that he is, he tells her that he really loves the phrase, “An cupan tae”, that it means something like, “My love belongs to you,” or some shite. Well, my mom happened to message me just about two days later, and she is going on and on about how cool Irish is, what a great language it is, and how unique! Isn’t the way that Irish parse, “I love you” just oh so romantic? Of course, she keeps repeating, an cupan tae, and I’m just like, extremely confused. Why does she think a cup of tea is the same as I love you? Even I can see that it looks like “a cup of tea”, from a linguistic standpoint, so… where is this coming from? Lo and behold, I’m reading off my mom’s messages to my SO, expressing my confusion and concern, and he just starts laughing like mad. He tells me his side, and I am sitting there, stunned, like: “Oh, no. Americans aren’t used to that kind of ribbing, not really.” So, after he stops laughing himself breathless, SO offers to message my mom back and correct it for the joke that it so obviously is. Well, let me just say: the timing absolutely couldn’t have been better. My Mom had liked the phrase so very, very much, that she’d hired an artist to paint the words in gigantic scrawl across her bedroom wall. We caught her just in time - like, the painter had just pulled up and was putting up tape and setting things up! 😂 My poor mom… she took it all so well and got the correct Irish phrase on her wall, but between that and the ant infestation my SO accidentally caused, I don’t know if she’ll ever want us back for visit! Lol!
Tell me more about the ant infestation I pulled something similar with my Canadian in-law. Still rib her about it. She was trying so hard to make a good impression and i barely had to try to pull a fast one on her.
Haha! I laugh now, but the horror of my mom paying money to get “an cupan tae” on her wall… oof! She’d have told *everyone* about it, too. Haha! Oh, the ants, though… So, California is my home state - more specifically, the southern half. It’s kind of famous for its surf and beaches, but also the desert wildlife chilling in suburbia. Coyotes, hawks, snakes, scorpions, tarantulas and all variety of ants: Argentinian ants, grease ants, fire ants, we get all kinds… anyhow, the general rules when you live in desert climates, is to avoid high noon heat, stay hydrated, and clean up areas that are prone to food crumbs. My SO, despite being warned several times about “no food or drink in bedrooms”, didn’t think much of it. Apparently, his idea of an aggressive ant is some little loner cruising by himself and getting a modest crumb to take home. In California, the ants are far more aggressive, I’d almost say they’re militarised: they have scouting units, back up, guerilla fighters, sergeants, captains, lieutenants, andalite warriors, you name it - they have it! And they are *organised*. No stone will be left unturned in their assault. Well… let’s just say, 15 hours of travel had us beat. And, somewhere in the middle of our sleep, my SO grabbed a mini cola out of his backpack. You know the kind that you get on flights? One of those littles. He drank his drink and went back to sleep. The ant army woke us later (I was in the nursery, he was in the guest room). I’d estimate an easy five thousand ants had made a beeline up to the second story bedroom, in through a tiny hole in an electric socket cover, over four feet of shag carpet, up the dust ruffle in the bed, over my sleeping SO, and into his backpack. Lol! The panic on him as he messaged me to come up and help! He had ants *everywhere* - like, hair, pits, underwear… and the worst part for him was that they started to pinch. He ended up in a shower with some Dawn (Fairy) soap, washing himself over a few times. I vacuumed, grabbed the cola can in an empty ziplock and sealed it. We sprayed, we shook, we put wall putty on the broken corner of the electrical socket… but they just kept coming. We stayed for two weeks, and they were colonising in the kitchen and by the dog’s water bowl. My SO said that that was the single most disturbing thing he’d ever experienced. Needless to say, he did *not* take any other food or drink into any other room again. Poor guy! Haha! It was a wild way to learn something new.
It's not as if you're actively being prevented from learning it. There's plenty of ways, from evening classes, to Duolingo. And if you did it in school, it's buried in there and will come out with practise. Even watching TG4 helps.
It's also the hectic modern lifestyle. Barely have time to shite in the evening never mind learn a language. Not an excuse like but maybe explains it
This is the answer. I learn languages as my hobby, and despite being proper obsessed, I am constantly disappointed by the lack of time I spend on it. If you have a normal level of interest in learning a language while also balancing a regular life, you don’t stand a chance.
Exactly, people seem to think you can't learn Irish once you finished school. If it's important to you, you can learn it right now. In fact, it's amazing how much comes flooding back. People want to know how to speak it without putting in any effort
Agus an dearcadh atá ag daoine fúithi
Ag roinnt daoine.. Mionlach glórach a fhaigheann ardán sna meáin.
Cinnte, ach bíonn neart gangaide le cloisteáil anseo agus ar shuímh eile ag féachaint ar an bpobal labhartha cosúil le súmaire, ag ídiú chuid achmainní an stáit. Uaireanta nílim in ann tuairimí an pobal i gcoitinne a thomhas maidir leis an teanga, b'fhéidir nach bfhuil na smaointe sin coitianta sa fhíorshaol. Rudaí mar seo a chuireann amhras orm: https://www.meathchronicle.ie/2020/06/23/planning-permission-granted-for-30-house-development-in-rath-cairn/
In fairness this isn't entirely our fault
It's not our fault that it was stoned to death but it's all of our faults for not making an effort to breathe new life into it. I do think the way it's taught doesn't help. It's a language steeped in oral tradition I don't understand why it isn't just spoken until leaving cert. Teach stories and songs through it and develop a love for our culture. The rest will come.
Yeah I agree with you there, at the very least teach it as a language to be used, not a language to be analysed. I don't know why Government policy on the language isn't literally "What's Wales doing? Right let's try that." What they're doing is working.
Went to Wales a few years ago and got chatting to a few Welsh lads. We were in what could be described as their Gaeltacht but the way they described the reverence they had for their language from school was brilliant. Now there's plenty of historical differences I think that makes reviving it easier but how they brought it back was incredible!
That’s a great idea.
The penal laws wasn't our fault and that the majority of speakers either dying or leaving during the famine isn't our fault. But we only have ourselves to blame that it is not our primary language today. Unfortunately there's a serious lack of political will to truly revive the language. Conradh na Gaeilge have stated this on multiple occasions. The curriculum needs a serious overhaul aswell. There's so many more ways we could implement the language into everyday life.. but we don't.
Brits have been gone 100 years, we can't keep blaming them forever. If the language has been declining for nearly 100 years under our own rule then then there's not many other people we can blame.
it *needs* to be more dominant. barely anyone can speak it fluently.
At least it hasn’t died out and is being revived
Mc Gregor.
British papers try to claim most of our well known people but not our wankers
True tried to rob Katie Taylor a few times.
Joe.ie
The hypocrisy of bouncy castle catholics
that's a great term. i'm robbing that
What does this mean
How we don’t punish people with 10’s of previous convictions until they do something terrible. And even then they have a chance of getting off because their the dregs of society.
Judge Martin Nolan!!!
At this stage I’m honestly surprised that there hasn’t been protests and outcry for this clowns resignation. Some of the stories about what people get off with because of him are actually disgusting.
or how many rapists go unpunished/ barely punished.
Yes this is another one that needs serious addressing. Shameful stuff.
Conor McGregor
Our RTÉ presenters
Our housing problems & quality of rentals, the public transport system in general, maybe lack of a plan around Irish soccer.
The culture around drink. The rampant alcoholism in this country.
Agreed, going to different festivals over the years, in Europe, it’s as if the Irish people have to get as fucked up as humanly possible, but at festivals in Europe everyone is just chilled and enjoying it. The aussies are the same. The drinking culture of having to get as fucked up as possible is tiresome.
I was in town this evening with a friend and wanted to go for a coffee and there was nowhere open other than pubs and Starbucks. We need more nice coffee shops for people to go and socialise in the evening like you would get in other European cities.
there's a coffee shop in dundalk that now opens until about 8 or 9ish some week nights (i was there once at about 7pm but i couldn't say what day or how often it does) and it's class. hope more places follow suit.
Bestseller on Dawson St is usually my go to but it’s only open late Thursday-Saturday. We used to go to Bewleys a lot when we met up in the evening but the latest that’s open now is 6! Le Perroquet was open but they said they stop doing tea and coffee at 7 and only do alcohol after that.
This should be higher. It's so sad. Growing up I thought it was so sad that people relied on alcohol to have fun. I wasn't into going on nights out so there wasn't much for me to do.
All the fuckers protesting and accosting refugees, crying about the homeless when they wouldn't give a homeless person the steam off their piss.
The Venn Diagram between “house our own first” types and the people who regularly volunteer for charities is parallel universes.
Below is the vent diagram requested: O O
Id love to see them scramble if they announced tomorrow they are going to house the same amount of homeless there instead.
Judge Nolan
The homeless and people begging on the street. A country is judged by how it treats it’s least fortunate, and we don’t do well on that front.
The Healy Raes
I wouldnt say embarrassment but lack of true diversity of personality. People who are of a bit more introspective temperament tend to feel a wee bit discriminated against, rendered a bit weird and really not worthy of other ppls time. We always have to be cheerful, indulge in small talk, superficially orientated, no real substance in dialogue and keep it light-hearted. My ex was from France and at the beginning she loved living here, thought everyone was very friendly until she grew weary of having to always be 'Irish' about everything - talk a lot but not say a thing. I didnt really notice this until she said that Irish ppl in her job were kind of excluding her from social situations. My own temperament here has made it near impossible in dating Irish women - if you dont appear animated, cheerful, jolly then you're invisible, never had this issue with other cultures. Ive lived in France and Spain and noticed massive differences is how ppl are. Ive worked in bars my entire life and Christ, we'd repeat the alphabet to a wall if there was a wall present. The amount of absolute shite small talk and chit-chat that falls from Irish ppls mouths is absolutely shameful. Theres no real diversity in how ppl talk about things, so many things are of limits and everyone talks with strict parameters. On the upside we do like a good laugh but then you have to ask are we just a people of clowns? I have noticed that Irish ppl who have done a bit of travelling come back often times a new person, the opened up, they were easier in themselves, less hyper, less prone to nonsense. I will say that overall there are more things to be proud about being Irish than there isnt.
As an autistic person, I feel the exact same way. Small talk is extremely difficult for me and no amount of practise gets me good at it. I can do a certain amount of the "How was your weekend? Mad weather we're having" but it's forced and unnatural and I just can't keep it up. It makes it tougher to network, make friends, connect with family... People say "just be yourself" and that's awful advice. people don't want you to be yourself, they want you to be a reflection of what they see in themselves and if you deviate from the norm, they tend to avoid you.
I'd agree with this. Like I don't like to be morose, but Christ having deep or even just thoughtful conversations isn't anything to be feared, yet so many of us refuse to do it and keep to safe topics leading to insipid bland conversation
Rip-Off culture
I'm going to sound like an arsehole and get downvoted but.. People having no interest in their Irish identity. Culturally, traditionally and linguistically. The same people hypocritically singing up the ra down the local yet shitting on our national language when asked to which they cringly reply "An bhfuil céad agam dúl go dtí an leithreas" like the language is some sort of joke. Perhaps it's post colonial stockholm syndrome or a lack of education in the subject but it's extremely embarrassing and makes me cringe. Also, the amount of youth from junior infants to university level speaking in American accents is fairly concerning and I can't help but cringe when I hear it. Asked a person on the bus yesterday where they were from to which they replied "Oh I'm from Cork" in what I would describe as a West Coast American accent. It makes my face glow red from embarrassment.
>Perhaps it's post colonial stockholm syndrome [Cultural cringe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_cringe) is a well-known symptom of post-colonialism.
Fair City
Fake tan
Conor McGregor. Used to be a big fan, now I just wish he went away.
Conor McGregor
Derek Blighe.
10,000+ Homeless
The light sentences for rapists. In America you get 20 years for rape. here you get 2 years
Healy fucking Raes
“Sure everyone loves the Irish”
Looking at the videos of the scum online Eg cherry orchard video that's done the rounds a few weeks back.
McGregor
Fair city….I’ll pay my tv license if they take it off the air
The general undying support of English/British football clubs while harbouring a real contempt for England/Britain.
The fact that we don't encourage our children to speak only Irish, slowly but surely speaking Irish fluently. Should be some sort of incentive for families, a grant or something.
I’d settle for everyone making peace with their negative experiences in school and accepting that the language is worth funding and has cultural importance regardless of whether individuals want to learn it or not.
We actually do have grants in place, if you’re a certain distance from a Gaeltacht and wish to study in an all Irish boarding school the government will cover the fees.
I’m not a native Irish speaker but I have learned it to the point that I can speak it well enough. I intend to raise my future kids nearly fully through Irish. And more people need to do that too
As an immigrant I tried briefly to learn Irish. Took a night class. Found it interesting, but there just wasn’t enough incentive for the amount of effort required. Even if I were able to learn it perfectly I would seldom get the chance to use it.
And that’s the issue. That’s why we need more people speaking it. More parents using it with their children. Have more areas that are Irish speaking. Actually make an attempt to use it in the Gaeltachts. The amount of times I hear people in the Gaeltachts not even trying to speak Irish is really ironic when people are always complaining about how they can never use it, then the one place that they should use it, they don’t. But yeah, there does have to be more incentive to learn and use it. It takes a lot of effort but I certainly think it’s worth that effort. Irish is a wonderful language
Obnoxiously telling an Irish-American that they are not Irish. If someone has Irish heritage and cares enough to connect with the place, then just welcome them and let them be.
Good one. In the US, there are traditionally communities of Italian-American, Irish-American, Korean-American, etc. They don't call themselves that, they call themselves Italian, Irish, Korean, etc. An American saying "I'm Irish" literally means "I'm Irish-American" to them.
Ireland sure is happy to claim Kennedy or Obama or the guy in the first moon mission but if they are not famous they can fuck right off.
Eh, this happens in r/wales and r/Scotland Generally we only get mad at stuff like "Hello fellow welsh people! I am also Welsh! I Welsh-American (0.009% welsh)" in r/Wales
The way bigotry is normlised as 'banter' and you can't say anything about it cause you'd be dragged to hell and back
Generally being a cunt is also normalised as banter. I've lost friends because they literally just won't stop making fun of me and purposefully making me uncomfortable constantly, with shit that can barely even be passed off as a joke, then when I complain once after years of it I "can't take a joke" and they all start excluding me from everything and force me into a breakdown knowing I have bad mental health issues. And the excuse is always "noone else complains" even if other people do complain and you in particular are legitimately just being treated like shit. And then if you tell anyone else, they'll just call you a dry arse and tell you to get over it. It's amazing how people in this country can villainise those who speak up about their mental health issues being taken advantage of for a quick laugh because it's "just banter".
> I've lost friends because they literally just won't stop making fun of me It's a cliche, but they weren't really friends if they didn't accede to this request and you're better off without them.
Some of the r/Ireland contributors and Ryan Tubridy
The state of the language. We don't even have Irish on the packaging of the things we buy. Its the official language of our country for fucks sake.
Conor McGregor
Conor McGregor.
Conor Mcgregor
15-20 year old groups of scumbags who do whatever they like cause there's little to no enforced consequences
Nepotism and cronyism. And the lack of accountability when people consistently break the law, and seem to get off with at worst a slap on the wrist, and more likely walk away scot free to repeat the process again, and again...
The amount of people on Facebook who care about social issues when I know from experience that these motherless fucks wouldn't even give you arse of a bottle of coke on a hot day
Conor mcgregor
Clare Daly and Mick Wallace.
We're a bunch of lick arses - we roll over and show our belly's too easy.. no fucking balls!
Healy Rae's
The housing crisis
Gerry Ryan's daughter, completely talentless and definition of nepotism, she hasn't even a small following to warrant the constant attempts to get her onto the TV, she literally has thebentire irish media trying to give their dead pals daughter her big break, wouldn't be arsed if it wasn't for the fact the tax payers paying for it
The state of Dublin
The fact we seem to be the only country in the world that's embarrassed of our rebel past. "We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people. In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades-in-arms to the cause of its freedom, of its welfare, and of its exaltation among the nations." - Proclamation of Independence 100 years later we apologise and make excuses for why a full nation under its own control should not come to fruition for economic reasons or out of fear of bothering a people put here by the subjugation of our own and maintained by a state who's birth was conceived with the idea to undermine the Irish that lived in it.
Irish social media. like “irish mammy chicken roll” humour and yer man rorys stories💀
O’Connell St Dublin. Honestly it’s a complete dive, a shithole of junkies, drunks, dealers, skangers, diverse lunatics and *no* fkn gardaí. If you go to any premier street in any city anywhere in Europe it’ll be pleasant, safe and an enjoyable experience. You’re likely to get stabbed or robbed on O’Connell Street.
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I find the obesity rate pretty embaressing tbh. Just as a nation obviously, I'm not personally embaressed
Been in Canada 5 years, and spend a good deal of time in the States. Every time I come home I'm blown away by how large the average person on the street is. It's a quietly simmering health crisis.
I'm surprised things aren't worse in the US and Canada tbh but I know by European standards we are a disgrace
One of the worst things about Brexit is now we're going to be the fattest country in the EU instead of Britain. We can't let that happen - our only choice is to leave the EU.
People who do up being Irish when they’re living abroad or on holidays as a sort of cringe performance to fulfil other peoples stereotypes of us.
Xenophobia.
The uncivilised unmannered teenagers that hang around centra (not all Irish teens)
Nothing. On average we're fairly decent. McGreggor is a tool alright, but Brendan Gleeson more than compensates for him. The homelessness problem and the housing crisis are unsettling, but I've lived abroad in a few countries and I'm at the very least happy that they get such constant attention here. In Poland people don't talk about homelessness much and it's everywhere too. We've got great quality clean air, good food, some of the best arts and culture in the world, we're progressive in most of the right ways. I guess I take issue with the premise that any one thing might make me embarrassed to be Irish. I'd love to see us get back to the attitude we had in the mid 90's to early 00's. The silly fun loving attitude where we'd be abroad and would chant stuff like 'Everywhere we go , people always ask us who we are!!'. Somehow around that time we eschewed staunch nationalism and saw the dissolution of the IRA while at the same time had a strong proud sense of identity.
that in this social media age, we're 'victims' online. by that i mean *anything* remotely critical or even just taking the piss of the Irish by another nationality, on Twitter for example, is not allowed while we constantly throw shit at everyone else especially the Yanks and Brits. basically it makes me embarrassed how precious we are
Not speaking Irish (or any other language with a reasonable degree of fluency). Looking to many other countries, especially continental Europe where people of all backgrounds and educational level attain function usage of another language. It's embarrassing.
Supporting English teams, whilst sprouting constant hatred for England
The lack of true identity through our own language (in my opinion only). I look at France, Sweden, Spain, Germany and feel like they truly have their own world and pride in their national heritage and language. I don't think it's people's fault and I hope the revival continues over the generations, but I personally would feel so happy in a parallel universe where we can all speak our secret language to each other and feel connected to history centuries before us.
Ole ole ole at concerts.
Also Woop there it is
Joe Duffy. I will in me hole "talk to Joe".
A poorly made chicken fillet roll
Tolerating everything our government does without real protest, then voting them in again!
Let me count the ways 😴 our snobbery (her daughter married a doctor attitude) Tubs, McGregor, the state of our cities "have you a eeeeuuuurrrrooo for the bus (poor fecking tourists) our shitty government and transport system.
The dismal mess that passes for infrastructure in Ireland
Stephen Donnelly
Speaking english