I am convinced that Ireland is in Serious trouble

23-02-2015 09:59AM #1

I am of the opinion that Ireland is in serious trouble now.
I drove across the country at the weekend and it is shocking the state of some of the towns, street after street are lying derelict.
A whole generation have left.
There are zero jobs.
Where I live the soul has been ripped out of the town, go for a drink to be greeted with nobody in the pubs / clubs.
7 years of this and no sign of it ending !
The country is a basket case.

clever user name · 23-02-2015 10:01AM

I'm loving the peace and quiet!!

Tony EH · 23-02-2015 10:02AM

And yet you'll have some gombeens trying to tell you that we're the fastest growing economy in Europe.

:pac:

yipeeeee · 23-02-2015 10:02AM

Tony EH wrote: »

And yet you'll have some gombeens trying to tell you that we're the fastest growing economy in Europe.

:pac:

But we are.

Just a little Samba · 23-02-2015 10:06AM

yipeeeee wrote: »

But we are.

This is really more a sign of how badly the EU market is stagnating than how "good" Ireland's economy is doing, to be quite frank.

shamrock55 · 23-02-2015 10:06AM

But dont you know we will have full employment by 2016 ( cos by then there will be nobody left)

Frynge · 23-02-2015 10:07AM

I love it. Great country and lots of opportunity for people.

chupacabra · 23-02-2015 10:08AM

In fairness some of the towns in the middle of this country have always been kips.

jayobray · 23-02-2015 10:10AM

Certain parts of Ireland are in serious trouble, mostly small towns overly reliant on dying industries.

Nash Bridges · 23-02-2015 10:10AM

It really depends where in the country you are, Dublin is not far off booming, Cork City and Galway City are doing well in general. More rural areas, small towns and Waterford aren't doing so well and are unlikely to recover to any level of prosperity in the short to medium term.

As long as the large multinationals stick around and farming/agribusiness remains strong Ireland will continue to do okay. The reality for most is somewhere in the middle of "Best-small-country" twee and complete doom and gloom.

23-02-2015 10:10AM

chupacabra wrote: »

In fairness some of the towns in the middle of this country have always been kips.

I take that on board, but what I am noticing is the Recession is really biting now. its Serious.

ancapailldorcha · 23-02-2015 10:11AM

chupacabra wrote: »

In fairness some of the towns in the middle of this country have always been kips.

This in a big way.

In the UK, most towns are near to at least one large city and serve as commuter towns. In Ireland a lot of towns, especially in the north-west and west are little more than a chapel, a handful of pubs and a corner shop. They're almost completely pointless.

DoYouEvenLift · 23-02-2015 10:12AM

Didn't social welfare mail out letters encouraging unemployed people to emigrate last year?

Flood · 23-02-2015 10:12AM

chupacabra wrote: »

In fairness some of the towns in the middle of this country have always been kips.

And always will be.

AndonHandon · 23-02-2015 10:15AM

Is the OP stuck in 2011?

The Celtic Phoenix has risen.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 23-02-2015 10:16AM

Just a little Samba wrote: »

This is really more a sign of how badly the EU market is stagnating than how "good" Ireland's economy is doing, to be quite frank.

No. It's real growth. Rural Ireland was in trouble before the recession. Growth will be in cities and more young people will move to cities. This isn't exclusive to Ireland. If anything, Ireland is behind the curve.

jamesbere · 23-02-2015 10:17AM

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

Didn't social welfare mail out letters encouraging unemployed people to emigrate last year?

No that was me

Caliden · 23-02-2015 10:17AM

We are but you can't attract foreign investment if we say we're in the shítter.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 23-02-2015 10:19AM

Frynge wrote: »

I love it. Great country and lots of opportunity for people.

Hey! Stop being so optimistic! Don't you know the chief export of Ireland is bottled misery and negativity?

Just a little Samba · 23-02-2015 10:19AM

Youth unemployment at 29%, one of the highest rates of graduate under employment in the EU.

#sureitsgrand

kneemos · 23-02-2015 10:20AM

Internet and big store shopping has ruined many small towns.
A lot of people will drive twenty or thirty miles or more to do a weekly shop in a large supermarket.

goat2 · 23-02-2015 10:23AM

i dont do internet shopping,
rather spend locally, i see loads of students working weekends in my local to help fund their education, my own did it and for that i am thankful that the local shops employed them during holidays and weekends it helped us alot, we would not have been able to cope without this, and for that i am forever grateful, i remind the young ones of this and to give back.

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 23-02-2015 10:23AM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Hey! Stop being so optimistic! Don't you know the chief export of Ireland is bottled misery and negativity?

God if we could sell that we'd make the Saudi oil families look like paupers.

Valetta · 23-02-2015 10:25AM

6541 wrote: »

I am of the opinion that Ireland is in serious trouble now.
I drove across the country at the weekend and it is shocking the state of some of the towns, street after street are lying derelict.
A whole generation have left.
There are zero jobs.
Where I live the soul has been ripped out of the town, go for a drink to be greeted with nobody in the pubs / clubs.
7 years of this and no sign of it ending !
The country is a basket case.

A whole generation have left.

Not true.

There are zero jobs.

Not true.

go for a drink to be greeted with nobody in the pubs / clubs.

Nobody at all? Wonder how they stay in business.

The country is a basket case

Opinion stated as fact.

The_Captain · 23-02-2015 10:28AM

Tony EH wrote: »

And yet you'll have some gombeens trying to tell you that we're the fastest growing economy in Europe.

:pac:

"Everything's getting better" say the rich bastárds who didn't suffer for a single day under the recession.

the evasion_kid · 23-02-2015 10:29AM

Stand up for our national anthem :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WhhSBgd3KI

sjb25 · 23-02-2015 10:29AM

6541 wrote: »

I am of the opinion that Ireland is in serious trouble now.
I drove across the country at the weekend and it is shocking the state of some of the towns, street after street are lying derelict.
A whole generation have left.
There are zero jobs.
Where I live the soul has been ripped out of the town, go for a drink to be greeted with nobody in the pubs / clubs.
7 years of this and no sign of it ending !
The country is a basket case.

Official goverment solution

shamrock55 · 23-02-2015 10:30AM

Valetta wrote: »

Not true.

Not true.

Nobody at all? Wonder how they stay in business.

Opinion stated as fact

under what rock are you living??

El_Duderino 09 · 23-02-2015 10:33AM

kneemos wrote: »

Internet and big store shopping has ruined many small towns.
A lot of people will drive twenty or thirty miles or more to do a weekly shop in a large supermarket.

That's happening everywhere the Internet has taken hold. The OPs observations are applicable all over the developed world for similar reasons.

In England there is a trend towards Urbanisation and migration south. For ever job created in the south of England, 12 jobs are lost on the north.

On aggregate there is genuine growth which is comprised of a boom in major urban areas and moderate growth in big towns and probably no change in most small towns and continued recession in rural areas.

This is not an exclusively Irish problem.

hfallada · 23-02-2015 10:34AM

Young people are the most educated generation Ireland has ever seen. If they have gone to ucd or Trinity to study business or science for 4 years. Why would they go home to the village they came from in the west where they can't get a well paid job that relates to their degree? You can't expect a village to have a well paid jobs for every one related to their degree.

Also a lot of young people want to live in cities. Why live in a small minded kip in the Midlands. When you can do whatever you like in Dublin or London without people judging you. People like the anonymity that cities offer

Dyr · 23-02-2015 10:35AM

Best little country in the world for big business!

I am convinced that Ireland is in Serious trouble

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