Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

What was Irelands lowest moment?

Options
12357…10

Comments

  • Options
    #122
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    Captain Farrell wrote: »
    Electing terrorists like Gerry Adams to represent the people of Ireland. Shameful and disgusting, the rest of the civilized world looks on in amazement at a nation that glorifies child-killing scumbags.

    The rest of the "civilized world" have elected far worse people in their time, so I wouldn't be too worried about what they think.


  • Options
    #123
    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    Leftist wrote: »
    Awful reponse.

    Tell me, how was his post an attempt to take the thread off topic?

    can't answer than can you? just rename the thread to something about stuff that happend to us, but was not our fault.. but catchier.

    Then we can all sit about eating potatos and trading stories about the brits.

    I can answer that actually.

    His post was to call Gerry Adams a child murderer.
    If you read this forum from time to time you'd know that Republican threads pop up and tend to go round and round with the same arguments. I think you'd have to be naive to at least not question if the poster was looking for a reaction given it was his "first post". Of course he could be genuine but I was entitled to state that he might not be. No big deal.

    BTW if you read the thread you'd see plenty of things that were caused by the Irish government and not at the hands 'of the brits'. A bit of perspective wouldn't go amiss.


  • Options
    #124
    maryishere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭maryishere


    Captain Farrell wrote: »
    Electing terrorists like Gerry Adams to represent the people of Ireland. Shameful and disgusting, the rest of the civilized world looks on in amazement at a nation that glorifies child-killing scumbags.

    he was only elected by some people in some areas ( west Belfast, Louth ) .And in fairness he has different opinions now to the 70's and 80's when ( most people believe ) he was an IRA leader in Belfast and responsible for bloody Friday bombings, the abduction of Jean McColville etc.

    Irelands lowest moment to me was going from boom to bust / IMF , not to mention Dustin on the eurovision


  • Options
    #125
    FTA69
    Registered Users Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    LordSutch wrote: »
    I seem to remember a documentary about Cromwell on the TV last year (RTE)? and I also remember many Cromwell hating posters on boards.ie eating humble pie when it turned out that Cromwells main attractions in Ireland were not the Irish persay, but the English Royalist army (who came here for the battle), that's not to deny that cromwell killed Irish people, but me thinks the circumstances were somewhat complicated at the time,

    So complicated that he identified the Catholic Irish as a permanent threat to English interests and set about instituting the Penal Laws that plunged the vast majority of the country into penury for centuries. He then decided to engage in systematic slavery and deportation which resulted in a large percentage of the population dying.

    I know it might pain you to admit that the English approach to colonising Ireland wasn't entirely benevolent, but there's no need to window dress your sycophantic rubbish with a load of historical inaccuracy.


  • Options
    #126
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    LordSutch wrote: »
    I seem to remember a documentary about Cromwell on the TV last year (RTE)? and I also remember many Cromwell hating posters on boards.ie eating humble pie when it turned out that Cromwells main attractions in Ireland were not the Irish persay, but the English Royalist army (who came here for the battle), that's not to deny that cromwell killed Irish people, but me thinks the circumstances were somewhat complicated at the time, with Ireland being the battle ground.

    The 1845-1852 fammine was obviously a low point for the whole island.
    The ROI staying out of WWII was also a low point IMO.

    Why do you derail debates to introduce your Brit-loving perspective? Did you have an unhappy childhood or are you just being a prick?


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #127
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Miley & Fidelma in the barn.

    Jesus, Mary & Holy Saint Joseph and poor Biddy in the kitchen.


  • Options
    #128
    KingOfFairview
    Registered Users Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭KingOfFairview


    Augmerson wrote: »
    If they could have invaded France, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Greece, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia they could have easily invaded Ireland. There just needed to be the will to do it.

    But they were too busy looking for the Holy Grail.

    No, they couldn't have. Unlike any of those countries, Ireland is an island with Britain between it and continental Europe. If they couldn't get over the channel, they couldn't have got to us.


  • Options
    #129
    Grand Moff Tarkin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 862 ✭✭✭Grand Moff Tarkin


    Bosco with the hookers and coke in Miami. Or was that Ben Dunne???


  • Options
    #130
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    KingOfFairview wrote: »
    No, they couldn't have. Unlike any of those countries, Ireland is an island with Britain between it and continental Europe. If they couldn't get over the channel, they couldn't have got to us.

    They managed it in Crete.


  • Options
    #131
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    The Clerical Child Abuse scandal/Magdalene Laundries;

    I'd sooner see the economy go to pot than see any more children/young women being hurt like this again.


    The Troubles;

    Senseless, mindless violence perpetrated by the lowest dregs of society imo. And for no real reason.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #132
    weemcd
    Registered Users Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭weemcd


    120+ replies and no mention of bloody sunday?


  • Options
    #133
    KingOfFairview
    Registered Users Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭KingOfFairview


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    They managed it in Crete.

    Yeah, because the entire RAF and Royal Navy wasn't there to stop them over friendly territory and with radar. Without wanting to sound too pompous here, I know what im talking about. No one with any real knowledge of the situation will tell you Ireland could have been invaded while the UK was still in the fight. It literally wouldn't have been possible.


  • Options
    #134
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,391 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    ColeTrain wrote: »
    Personally I would have went for something like this

    Why is the reg blurred out? It's not like anyone else on the planet has a range rover that looks so horrible.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • Options
    #135
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Not the lowest by any stretch but the Americanisation of the Dublin/Irish Accent is quite worrying :/


  • Options
    #136
    Shane-KornSpace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    Today KPMG stole my shoes.
    No seriously.
    They seized control of my work place today and will not allow me to retrieve my €55 pair of shoes back from inside.

    €55 is a lot of money to me :-(

    that's low


  • Options
    #137
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    The self loathing/inferiority complex is laughable. I wonder do the people of other nations analyse themselves to bits like it's done here? I'm guessing not.
    Seaneh wrote: »
    It's ****ing everywhere.

    It's not half as bad here as it is in most European countries. Never mind the rest of the world.
    Yeh it's funny how some people like to make out that Ireland is like Bolivia or somewhere - sorry folks, we ain't anywhere near that bad-ass! :pac:
    frank reynolds wrote: »
    crap kip that has always been full of everything that nobody wants.
    What does that even mean?


  • Options
    #138
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,580 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Being taxed for making the sacrifices to obtain your own family home.


  • Options
    #139
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    FTA69 wrote: »
    So complicated that he identified the Catholic Irish as a permanent threat to English interests and set about instituting the Penal Laws that plunged the vast majority of the country into penury for centuries. He then decided to engage in systematic slavery and deportation which resulted in a large percentage of the population dying.

    I know it might pain you to admit that the English approach to colonising Ireland wasn't entirely benevolent, but there's no need to window dress your sycophantic rubbish with a load of historical inaccuracy.

    I honestly thought the docu (Fergal Keane)? painted cromwell in a different light and that his real foe in Ireland were the English Royalists? but I will admit that this may be total inaccurate rubbish and that I misunderstood, in which case 'Hands up' I was totally wrong in post #120.
    WilyCoyote wrote: »
    Why do you derail debates to introduce your Brit-loving perspective? Did you have an unhappy childhood or are you just being a prick?

    Apologies to you too WilyCoyote re post#120 http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=85021160&postcount=120 presuming that I was wrong.

    As I say, that was the impression I 'mistakenly' got . . . . . . .


  • Options
    #140
    Curlysue76
    Registered Users Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Curlysue76


    bumper234 wrote: »
    Yet George W Bush is treated like a hero By millions of Americans and Obama get the Nobel peace prize for drone bombing innocents. Yeah Gerry Adams is way worse:rolleyes:

    He is no better, that's for sure. Just because the yanks are doing it, that is no reason for us to follow. A murdering terrorist is a murdering terrorist wherever they are.


  • Options
    #141
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »

    The Troubles;

    Senseless, mindless violence perpetrated by the lowest dregs of society imo. And for no real reason.


    ...sure they just did it for the laugh.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #142
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    The child molesting Id say


  • Options
    #143
    Curlysue76
    Registered Users Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Curlysue76


    Da Shins Kelly wrote: »
    The rest of the "civilized world" have elected far worse people in their time, so I wouldn't be too worried about what they think.

    I think we should be more worried that people in Ireland would vote for Adams than what other countries think of them for doing it.


  • Options
    #144
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    KingOfFairview wrote: »
    Yeah, because the entire RAF and Royal Navy wasn't there to stop them over friendly territory and with radar. Without wanting to sound too pompous here, I know what im talking about. No one with any real knowledge of the situation will tell you Ireland could have been invaded while the UK was still in the fight. It literally wouldn't have been possible.

    No worries mate you don't sound pompous at all, threads off topic anyway


  • Options
    #145
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    The day St Patrick arrived


  • Options
    #146
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    Curlysue76 wrote: »
    He is no better, that's for sure. Just because the yanks are doing it, that is no reason for us to follow. A murdering terrorist is a murdering terrorist wherever they are.

    I didn't say it was right....Also Adams was voted in wayyyyy before either Bush or Obama.


  • Options
    #147
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Nodin wrote: »
    ...sure they just did it for the laugh.

    I hear your sarcasm, even so, the Troubles were no laughing matter, and the IRA notched up more than their fair shair of the killings.


  • Options
    #148
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    THall04 wrote: »
    The Stardust fire and how the families of the victims were treated in the aftermath.


    Thinking about it it was the signs of things to come. Irish law made a huge statement that the state will always let greedy capitalists off scott free where they have committed blatant negligence on those they are meant to serve.


  • Options
    #149
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    LordSutch wrote: »
    I hear your sarcasm, even so, the Troubles were no laughing matter, and the IRA notched up more than their fair shair of the killings.


    ....they weren't and they did, but "Senseless, mindless violence perpetrated by the lowest dregs of society imo. And for no real reason." is a woejous misrepresentation.


  • Options
    #150
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    LordSutch wrote: »
    the Troubles were no laughing matter, and the IRA notched up more than their fair shair of the killings.
    Wow, really? That's such new information.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #151
    Curlysue76
    Registered Users Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Curlysue76


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Wow, really? That's such new information.

    Not new, but we should never forget all the bloodshed.


Advertisement