Macra

deise gal

Would you ever consider joining Macra( Na Feirme)?

I have heard it is a great laugh, great place to meet people.

What are your opinions?

I'd love to join Macra....but I have no idea how.

deise gal

For those of you who don't know what Macra is...

Macra na Feirme is a national, voluntary organisation for young people between the ages of 17 and 35. The organisation aims to promote agricultural and rural development and the personal development of its members.
Macra promotes social and cultural education, and the widening of interests among rural youth.

Gran Hermano

deise gal wrote: »

For those of you who don't know what Macra is...

Macra na Feirme is a national, voluntary organisation for young people between the ages of 17 and 35. The organisation aims to promote agricultural and rural development and the personal development of its members.
Macra promotes social and cultural education, and the widening of interests among rural youth.

Macra, isn't that a dating agency for farmers?

deise gal

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Macra, isn't that a dating agency for farmers?

Well it's not an official Dating agency although a lot of members do meet their other halves there....

Gran Hermano

deise gal wrote: »

Well it's not an official Dating agency although a lot of members do meet their other halves there....

Must confess I'd heard similar; that culchies pop along to pick up tips
on which fertiliser is best, how to get an EU grant, anti-mastitis guidelines
and how to spot which heifer is in heat!

Have to admit none of the above would be of particular interest or relevance
to those of us both born and residing in the capital.

gucci

Ok im gonna put on my defensive bogger hat here and stand up for macra on this one!

Macra is a very good organisation offering a variety of social and sporting activities for young people in rural areas where to be honest sod all else is happening in!! It offers a healthy alternative to the pub (maybe only for a few hours!) with activities in a number of fields (see what i did there!)

Its not the be all and end all but i think it is very good organisation especially for regions isolated. As well as argicultural activities members compete and participate in Sports, drama, music, debating and a number of other areas

flanum

and what about scor?

phantom_lord

deise gal wrote: »

For those of you who don't know what Macra is...

Macra na Feirme is a national, voluntary organisation for young people between the ages of 17 and 35. The organisation aims to promote agricultural and rural development and the personal development of its members.
Macra promotes social and cultural education, and the widening of interests among rural youth.

lolololol

Gran Hermano

phantom_lord wrote: »

lolololol

That's not fair, those 'rural youths' need all the cultural and social education they can get.

biko

Whatever bring kids away from the screens for a few hours a week is good in my book. Make them learn where milk and eggs comes from.

Drift

biko wrote: »

Whatever bring kids away from the screens for a few hours a week is good in my book. Make them learn where milk and eggs comes from.

I find it awful annoying when I head down to Tesco and it's full of kids.

RonMexico

I heard George W. Bush added them to his list of bad people as part of the War on Terrorrerism

Karoma

biko wrote: »

Whatever bring kids away from the screens for a few hours a week is good in my book. Make them learn where milk and eggs comes from.

Which screens? The ones in the milking shed? They know where milk and eggs come from (mostly.) They're farmers talking farm talk with other farmers. It's encouraging nothing but further inbreeding.

Gran Hermano

biko wrote: »

Make them learn where milk and eggs comes from.

Marks & Spencers?

Karoma

Karoma wrote: »

It's encouraging nothing but further inbreeding.

There are certain people who shouldn't be allowed to out breed.

biko

Currently Macra na Feirme has 8,000 members in 300 clubs. Approximately one-third of Macra members are involved in farming, others are sports, travel, public speaking and performing arts.

Karoma

biko wrote: »

Currently Macra na Feirme has 8,000 members in 300 clubs. Approximately one-third of Macra members are involved in farming, others are sports, travel, public speaking and performing arts.

They're just the culchies that don't stand to inherit the farm.

biko

Speaking from experience Herr K? How's the farm?
Actually if the OP don't mind maybe a poll?

Karoma

Drop me a PM if you want a poll added.

Dudess

My mate's two sisters are members. Not trying to be mean but the photos they take, the stuff they do, the people they've introduced me to (whom they've met there) - stereotypical super-bogger culture. Father Ted territory really - Miss Macra is just the Lovely Girls. And there's also the Blue Jeans Country Queen festival. If they visited Dublin it wouldn't even enter their heads to go anywhere besides Coppers. In Cork it's Reardens (the Cork Coppers) and nothing else.

Pompey Magnus

I was given a Macra calender with some girls in various alluring poses, some pretty good lookers among them to be honest, nearly enough to make me join :pac: (yay, when did Pacman come back?).

randylonghorn

gucci wrote: »

Ok im gonna put on my defensive bogger hat here

Oh, don't dude, it's like throwing fish scraps to ravening cats!

Just pull on your metaphorical wellies, say "shure now!" a bit, mention sheep every second sentence, and try to keep a serious face.

They're easily distracted really, a ball on a string or a bit of tinsel, anything like that is very effective.

blow69

Dudess wrote: »

My mate's two sisters are members. Not trying to be mean but the photos they take, the stuff they do, the people they've introduced me to (whom they've met there) - stereotypical super-bogger culture. Father Ted territory really - Miss Macra is just the Lovely Girls. And there's also the Blue Jeans Country Queen festival. If they visited Dublin it wouldn't even enter their heads to go anywhere besides Coppers. In Cork it's Reardens (the Cork Coppers) and nothing else.

Don't get me started on the boggers that go out in Cork! You can spot them a mile off, they're so funny:D What with their drying towel-esque shirts, jeans that are too short and their shoes that they wore in secondary school!


TBH i would never join the Macra(never actually heard about it until now:p) I just wouldn't know how to talk to those people.Absolutely nothing in common with them!

BDubliner

A couple of culchie cousins of mine brought me down to a meeting of MACRA one time. Still laugh to this day the freaks that were at it. One lad eating a raw potato in the corner and all the 'ladies' in their flowery dresses getting eyed up by their brothers.

orestes

randylonghorn wrote: »

Oh, don't dude, it's like throwing fish scraps to ravening cats!

Just pull on your metaphorical wellies, say "shure now!" a bit, mention sheep every second sentence, and try to keep a serious face.

They're easily distracted really, a ball on a string or a bit of tinsel, anything like that is very effective.

Ball on a string?! Where?!

monkeyfudge

I thought this thread was going to be about the giant alien crabs from Doctor Who.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Doctor_Who_The_Macra_Terror.jpg

Is this organisation perhaps a front for an invasion plot?

randylonghorn

Didn't they eventually end up in the "basement" levels of the motorway?

BDubliner wrote: »

One lad eating a raw potato in the corner ...

Ah, shure now, a potato is a good auld shnack when you're peckish ... more ating in a turnip though!!

gucci

randylonghorn wrote: »

They're easily distracted really, a ball on a string or a bit of tinsel, anything like that is very effective.

BDubliner wrote: »

One lad eating a raw potato in the corner and all the 'ladies' in their flowery dresses getting eyed up by their brothers.

Would have been far better to obviously have a raw potato on a string than a ball....

Sherifu

Karoma wrote: »

Drop me a PM if you want a poll added.

Yes please, the lower field could badly do with a good fence. :pac:

Femelade

Dudess wrote: »

My mate's two sisters are members. Not trying to be mean but the photos they take, the stuff they do, the people they've introduced me to (whom they've met there) - culture. Father Ted territory really - Miss Macra is just the Lovely Girls. And there's also the Blue Jeans Country Queen festival. If they visited Dublin it wouldn't even enter their heads to go anywhere besides Coppers. In Cork it's Reardens (the Cork Coppers) and nothing else.

oi! i go to reardens, i'm not a bogger, well i do live out in the country but i'm not a "stereotypical super-bogger " my boyfriend is a farmer and he goes there too, but he doesnt look like a bogger either..some of his friends might though..

nesf

Femmy wrote: »

oi! i go to reardens, i'm not a bogger, well i do live out in the country but i'm not a "stereotypical super-bogger " my boyfriend is a farmer and he goes there too, but he doesnt look like a bogger either..some of his friends might though..

A farmer you say..


I used to do the Macra debates when I was in school. Well do I remember the kind of man who turns up to see the lovely country school girls (and possibly the lovely country school boys, hey I'm open minded) that participate in these events.

Femelade

nesf wrote: »

A farmer you say..
.

Yep, and like when he's on the farm, he does look like a farmer in his smelly clothes and wellies..but he does scrub up well..i swear!

Dudess

Of course not all people who go to Reardens are boggers, but if there's a muck savage in Cork, Reardens is where he/she'll go.

nesf

Femmy wrote: »

but he does scrub up well..i swear!

Yeah a brillo pad and a bit of Domestos does wonders in the right hands alright.

Dudess wrote: »

Of course not all people who go to Reardens are boggers, but if there's a muck savage in Cork, Reardens is where he/she'll go.

It's nice that they congregate there and leave those of us who escaped in peace elsewhere.

ScumLord

Ah ye city dwellers wouldn't understand the Macra. The lack of fresh vegetables and open spaces to run around in has left ye weak. The concrete walls that cage ye has turned your feeble brains to mushy pea soup. When the Macra rises up ye will be defenceless against us. Our wellies will walk muck all over you main streets and it'll rain down potatoes the like of which ye've never seen before.