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What was Irelands lowest moment?

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  • 11-06-2013 1:57am
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    ColeTrain
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    There's plenty to choose from here I'm afraid. It can be measured whatever way you want.

    From the banking crisis and the world watching as we went into meltdown, to the Church scandals, to Crystal Swing performing on the Ellen Show.


    What do you think?


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    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Electing Bertie Ahern and Fianna Fail in 1997 was a day of absolute shame


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    Napper Hawkins
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    It was between now and sometime around the Big Bang.


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    Bipolar Joe
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    About ten to twelve thousand years ago when the ice age ended.


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    downonthefarm
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    when scilachii scored in italia 90


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    ColeTrain
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    Napper Hawkins wrote: »
    It was between now and sometime around the Big Bang.
    Bipolar Joe wrote: »
    About ten to twelve thousand years ago when the ice age ended.

    Personally I would have went for something like this


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    ColeTrain
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    downonthefarm wrote: »
    when scilachii scored in italia 90

    I wasn't old enough to fully understand it but heartbreaking stuff I'd imagine.

    Losing to Spain in penalties at the 2002 WC was low.


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    endacl
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    The day St Paddy arrived?


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    Karl Stein
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    The famine?


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    downonthefarm
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    ColeTrain wrote: »
    I wasn't old enough to fully understand it but heartbreaking stuff I'd imagine.

    Losing to Spain in penalties at the 2002 WC was low.

    hooland in 94 was bad too,total anti-climax


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    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    Cathal Cloch wrote: »
    The famine?

    Probably that alright.
    New question then, What was Ireland's lowest moment besides The Famine?


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    LiamMc
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    Dunmore Cave
    http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/1b/30/f7/photo-by-ryan-brenizer.jpg


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    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    LiamMc wrote: »
    Dunmore Cave
    http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/1b/30/f7/photo-by-ryan-brenizer.jpg

    Dunmore Cave is a moment? I must have missed that.


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    ONeill2013
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    Who knows? i'm sure no member has been around since the first day of human settlement.
    My prediction is the day the rubber bandits were formed.


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    Xavi6
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    P.S I Love You

    Nepotism, badly written book, diddly eye movie.


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    BillyMitchel
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    downonthefarm wrote: »
    when scilachii scored in italia 90

    The Henry handball was worse.


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    Karl Stein
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    ColeTrain wrote: »
    Probably that alright.
    New question then, What was Ireland's lowest moment besides The Famine?

    The civil war.


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    donegal_road
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    ColeTrain wrote: »
    Probably that alright.
    New question then, What was Ireland's lowest moment besides The Famine?

    Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
    The impact of the war (Cromwell) on the Irish population was unquestionably severe, although there is no consensus as to the magnitude of the loss of life. The war resulted in famine, which was worsened by an outbreak of bubonic plague. Estimates of the drop in the Irish population resulting from the Parliamentarian campaign vary from 15–25%,[7] to half and even as much as five-sixths. The Parliamentarians (Cromwellians) also deported about 50,000 people as indentured labourers.

    Link


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    longshanks
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    When so called medical professionals left a sick pregnant woman to die last October in a hospital in Galway. Recently that's the lowest.


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    Cody Pomeray
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    The plantations.

    Normans and uppity Dubliners inside the Pale we could live with.

    The plantations really brung it, though.

    I know the Civil War has been said, but the Plantations created a pervasive civil division that has managed to survive entire centuries, and to this day leaves Irish people grappling in the dark for a national identity we will probably never recover.


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    Cookie_Monster
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    The Famine


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    NIMAN
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    I'd say the child abuse. No contest.


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    ilovebiology
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    Ann Doyle leaving The News?


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    kjl
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    Xavi6 wrote: »
    P.S I Love You

    Nepotism, badly written book, diddly eye movie.

    The book wasn't that bad. I didn't see the movie.


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    Karl Stein
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvCK2o6Zbo


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    ilovebiology
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    For me I think it would be austerity that has been forced on the people. In my lifetime, I think that's the lowest time for Ireland


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    Royal Irish
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    In my lifetime the lowest point as a nation was the death of Savita Halappanavar by being refused an abortion because Ireland is a catholic country.


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    apollo8
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    Devalera signing the book of condolence for Hitler...............Shocking!:(


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    MyPeopleDrankTheSoup
    Registered Users Posts: 2,710 ✭✭✭MyPeopleDrankTheSoup


    going cap in hand to the IMF


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    Martyn1989
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    Probably miwadigate


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    con1421
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    The Thierry Henry handball


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