Why are you proud of Ireland?

twanda

...might be a sore point for some people, but I like that Ireland was the first EU country to impose a nationwide ban on smoking in workplaces. Lots of people said it would never work - but it did, and many other countries have followed suit.

I am also proud of the many famous Irish actors and musicians.

Nolanger

I'm proud that our Dept of Finance is full of nice people with fantastic communication skills but they don't have any accounting/economics/finance qualifications - hence this recession

professore

I'm proud of those Irish people who stood up against the so called experts and went against the begrudgers and did something (or at least tried) to improve society:

Dr. Noel Browne
David Norris
Bob Geldof
Dermot Morgan
Bono
David McWilliams
George Lee (Don't make me eat my words George)
Roy Keane

patrickbrophy18

I'm not that proud of being Irish at the moment. For a start, some of the laws in this country are a joke, the transportation system is half-assed and has gotten worse over "cost cutting measures", those of us who have jobs are being taxed left, right and center. These tax levies have cost thousands of people jobs. I could go on forever.

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Maggie Thatcher.

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parker kent

twanda wrote: »

...might be a sore point for some people, but I like that Ireland was the first EU country to impose a nationwide ban on smoking in workplaces. Lots of people said it would never work - but it did, and many other countries have followed suit.

I am also proud of the many famous Irish actors and musicians.

I second that, especially how well observed it is in pubs. I'm amazed at how even the most hardened of smokers head outside.

I'm also proud of the GAA, in the face of soccer and rugby it still stands as a symbol of our sporting tradition. As much as I love soccer, a thriving GAA scene is something that makes me proud. Shefflin and Canning dueling it out last week only for sporting rewards is a thing to be proud of

mudahawn

If you have levies or social welfare cuts read this,
Gleaned with difficulty from Independent, Times, Herald.


TD salary, €100,190 per annum. Or €1926.73 per week. €275.00 per day PLUS

A Committee pays on average € 21.22 per day

T.D.s get Walking around money €15.06 per day.

They get allowance for coming to work €61.53.per day.

Travel allowance of €1.26 per mile if over 15 miles from Dail per day.

Free parking for life at Leinster house.

Overnight allowance €143.45 if they sign in, no receipt necessary.

Even if they only call in to the Dail bar during the holidays they can claim overnight

€15.00 constituency travel expenses per day receipts not required.

€98.00per day secretarial expenses., can be given to wife.

€18.00 per day expenses for phone calls.

€ 1350.00 every 18months for a new phone, and to insure phone, = to.€ 2.5 per day

Ministers get €100.000.00 a year more that a TD, plus free car and €13,000pocket money ie € 309.00 per day more that T.D.

Total for T.D.s a minimum of €1494.36 per week, Plus perks.

Total for Ministers €3810.00 per week, plus perks

Walsh

I'm proud of the Irish sense of humour and pub culture.

Oisinjm

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Well, that's not very impressive considering about only 8 nations play rugby with any degree of seriousness.

I hate the way people who dislike rugby just make the sport out to be a joke for the sake of it.

Ireland
Wales
New Zealand
SA
Australia
France
Fiji
Italy
Scotland
Argentina
Canada
USA
Georgia
Namibia
Portugal
Romania
Spain
Samoa
Tonga

Theres a lot more aswell, over 120 teams play. This year the Irish team have won the Grand Slam, had a huge amount of representatives on the B&I Lions and won the Churchill Cup, if you're not proud of that I feel for you.

galwayrush

I felt very proud when i attended the Volvo Ocean race 2 weeks in Galway.:cool:

parker kent

Oisinjm wrote: »

I hate the way people who dislike rugby just make the sport out to be a joke for the sake of it.

Ireland
Wales
New Zealand
SA
Australia
France
Fiji
Italy
Scotland
Argentina
Canada
USA
Georgia
Namibia
Portugal
Romania
Spain
Samoa
Tonga

Theres a lot more aswell, over 120 teams play. This year the Irish team have won the Grand Slam, had a huge amount of representatives on the B&I Lions and won the Churchill Cup, if you're not proud of that I feel for you.

In fairness the poster did say "to some degree of seriousness". So really you have the 6 Nations, Tri-Nations, Argentina, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. That's 13 countries in total and tbh the last three are just feeder countries for the All Blacks and Australia. Plus add in that it is not the number 1 sport in even the bigger rugby nations such as England. You could just as easily say that the GAA is a worldwide sport because it is played in England, USA etc. But really it is just Ireland.

Anyhoo, as well as the GAA which I before, I'm proud of Ireland's countryside, sense of humour and the TG4 girls. God bless TG4

starn

Smyth wrote: »

I'm proud of my ancestors. The men and women who died for my freedom.

Im proud that theres no more Bogman IRA gob****es anymore

jumpguy

Lads, people who say there's nothing to be proud of annoy me. It's abit of a recession and it'll pick up. I doubt if there was any other government in power it'd make a difference. The incidents in the Ryan Report have no been brought to light and we're recovering. The corruption and greed is one thing, but since when is government everything? Look at your local community (unless your in Dublin or something).

Also, why are people belittling that Ireland is GOOD at rugby? Christ never happy at all. Get in on the action and smile and stop being so dull. **** loads of teams play in rugby around the world. North America play rugby (an Irish team gone over), rugby is, as we know quite popular in the south hemisphere.