Are we "The Dirty Irish"

Fulton Crown

Just returned from a trip to a major European city - was struck by the overlaa cleanliness of the place and apart from some graffiti the absence of litter.

Back to Dublin....Jeeze the contrast.....litter everywhere...dirty roadsigns...poor faded road markings.

But the litter...especially around Croker...apalling.

Heard a chappie on Gerry Ryan show yhe other day ...had been dunned for €150 fine after leaving a cardboard box at the bottle bank.

"Why don't the put receptacles for boxes near the bottle banks for the cardboard boxes" ? Asked our fat presenter.

Well Im not sure..but at a guess i would say that if people thought they could leave their cardboard boxes they would do by the skipfull ..inevitable followed by old bikes,washing machines and of course the fly tippers favourite.... the old stained mattress...plenty of them....

Yes we surely are the dirty Irish

thomond2006

We're the fighting Irish. :P

Bandit12

Was in Orlando with the kids this year for a few weeks and when i returned to Dublin airport it was a real eye opener cleanliness wise.

Mossy Monk

This country really is a kip.

mikemac

Do cities have an equivalent of the Tidy Towns competition?

It's huge in rural areas.
You know, areas where you don't have council workers picking up rubbish every day....
People repaint houses, the school gardens are redone and so much more.

Does this exist in towns and cities. Doubt it!

Aidric

How apt that Ryan should be discussing rubbish given the garbage that comes out of his stretched gob.

Ross_Mahon

Yeah i know what you mean, I was in Alicante a few weeks ago, Not a spot of rubbish to be found anywhere, The only graffiti to be found was the nice artistic kind done by the locals.

TPD

We have the tidy towns thing. Dont think we've ever won though. Damn Malin :mad:

AnonoBoy

Oh yeah we're a nation of filthy muck savages, haven't you heard?

jumpguy

This is a Dublin/large city thing. I find smaller towns to be very clean, rural roads also. You'd have to go a long way to find litter.

Slumlion

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Oh yeah we're a nation of filthy muck savages, haven't you heard?

Speak for yourself.

Sea Sharp

"They should get the people on the dole to clean up"
:rolleyes:

That_Guy

Ireland is Europe's dump.

Orizio

That_Guy wrote: »

Ireland is Europe's dump.

After about two dozen other countries you mean.

thomond2006

If anyone wants to see the clean side of Ireland, go to Westport is my advice.

ttm

I live near a very small beach and every day there is new litter, most days a minimum of a couple of Pizza boxes and McDonalds boxes + paper cups dumped on the road, then we get a weekly dump of someones black bins on the beach not to mention beds TV's etc that are dumped over the cliff.

yep Dirty Irish!

A Primal Nut

"Far away hills are greener".........bla bla bla

I've been all over the world, on average, Dublin isn't any dirtier than everywhere else. Cairo, for example doesn't even have bins so everyone has to litter!

As for litter around Croker, same with any stadium after a major event.

Like any other population, some of us are dirty, some of us aren't.

K-Ren

Considering the weather this summer I'm suprised it's not cleaner.

Four-Percent

I dunno, some bits of Paris are meant to be filthy, and the west of Ireland is usually pretty clean...

AnonoBoy

Slumlion wrote: »

Speak for yourself.

This was what we call on the interweb - the funnehs.

You are familiar with it, no?

El Siglo

It coule be worse, look at these folks littering all over the place, you think they had just been through a war!

Nodin

El Siglo wrote: »

It coule be worse, look at these folks littering all over the place, you think they had just been through a war!

Germans...lazy drunken yokes, sponging off Europe while they dance around in some love parade 9 months of the year...Get out of them rubber ledierhosen and get a feckin Job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sofiztikated

thomond2006 wrote: »

If anyone wants to see the clean side of Ireland, go to Westport is my advice.

Just keep your eyes closed on the way there.

PaulieD

That_Guy wrote: »

Ireland is Europe's dump.

It sure does feel like a dumping ground for parts of europe alright.

anonymous_joe

Ever been to Italy?

We're far from Europe's dirtiest. Spain's fairly dirty too I find.

Rented Mule

I love how everyone knows of one or two places that are as dirty/dirtier than Ireland.

That makes everything all better.

Biggins

thomond2006 wrote: »

We WERE the fighting Irish. :P

Corrected.
Now we are just the too complacent Irish.

In answer to the quest: Seen much worse and seen better.
Wouldn't call us the worst.

Dr_Phil

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Yes we surely are the dirty Irish

It's not that bad. Sure it could be better, but there is absolutely no reason for calling yourselves "dirty".

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

I was out in Galway duing race week, the state of the town around 4am was disgusting. Same any place I've ever been. People are dicks when they're drunk, no respect for their environment. Seems to be a phenomenon consistent with Irish and Brits, the only places I've ever seen dirty abroad was in tourist resorts that are full of us!

Not easy to compare Galway with New York, but that place is pretty dirty too.

Jesus Juice

Has anyone ever been to Paris?
The fcuking filth of the place!!!

Unpossible

thomond2006 wrote: »

We're the fighting Irish. :P

The fighting dirty irish?

seraphimvc

i juat wish irish can be naughtier

rossie1977

dublin is a very dirty town to look at in general, the liffey next to houston station stinks and is filled with every type of rubbish under the sun, every second building along the quays is boarded up anyway, dublin corporation think that by putting a bit of boarding up in front of an empty site in the city centre nobody will notice :rolleyes:

down d'olier street the times building is an awful eyesore, then again people don't visit dublin for the sights like they do london, new york or paris, foreigners go to dublin to drink themselves silly in temple bar until they vomit, country people visit dublin to score in coppers

Armin_Tamzarian

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Are we "The Dirty Irish"

Aren't you "English"

Ibrahimovic91

Lyon makes Dublin look like Stockholm. I'm not a racist(proof i was banned last week for insulting a racist jonjo on here) but these cities have like slums and parts resemble algeria for example more than france. ireland doesn't have these sort of conditions.

mickos

I'm from a small village and nobody there ever litters. The tidy towns committee are like the gestapo:D Speak for yourself we're not all dirty feckers.

FlutterinBantam

I took a stroll along Portmarnock Beach over the week end and the amount of fcukers letting their dogs cut off rope was unbelievable.

This big pikey lookin dude with a boxer on a lead, head on him like a can of "blown" Chum(the dog owner) Ireland flag tatts covring his forearms.

Anyway halfway down the beach the Boxer starts "dragging" and pointing the cigar cutter toward the sand.

Just before a group of kids making sandcastles Chumhead stops and The Boxer spools up and dumps the most revolting heap of dogshíte I have ever seen right near where the kids were playing, like a fcukin Burrito slathered in Taco sauce with salsa dressing!! A steaming load!!

Chummer totally ignores the 99 with strawberry and toffee dressing left by the dog and just walks on.

A lady who had seen the incident challenged him and all I heard was
"Shut the fcuk up or his next ****e will down your throat"

Have we no shame.??

stovelid

rossie1977 wrote: »

dublin is a very dirty town to look at in general, the liffey next to houston station stinks and is filled with every type of rubbish under the sun

It's all just an unpatriotic rumour started by those West-Brits, Bagatelle.

CatacombKittens

In London at the mo and even though it's overpopulated it's still relatively cleaner.

rubadub

mikemac wrote: »

Do cities have an equivalent of the Tidy Towns competition?

It's huge in rural areas.

I have seen those towns, they have littering alright, the streets are littered with bins, it would be hard to drop stuff on the ground without a bin getting in the way. Seriously, in many places in dublin you will not find a bin at all. People are also scared to be seen putting rubbish in other peoples bins due to the bin charges (i.e. when I was a kid we would stick rubbish in peoples bins on the roads). I have only seen 1-2 bins in dublin housing estates in all my life, the ones in the city are often overflowing.

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Ever been to Italy?

We're far from Europe's dirtiest. Spain's fairly dirty too I find.

The self-depricators put on blinkers when on holidays...

stovelid

vinylmesh wrote: »

YORE MA IS DOORTY !

Not one, but two ninja edits.

/bows in respect.

Prof.Badass

stovelid wrote: »

Not one, but two ninja edits.

/bows in respect.

Then a not-so stealthy repost .

Anyway,

Whatever about the rest of us,


YOUR MA SURE IS DOORTY !

Purple Gorilla

God..if a foreigner was to come on to boards and read all these depressing threads they'd think we're all suicidal about Ireland. If ye hate it so much and complain about it so much then emigrate..and none of this "I plan too" crap because you know you won't..

Be happy people. If you're not apart of the solution, you're apart of the problem

Hagar

A lot of it is down to the simple denial of reality by the various CoCos.

They don't empty the litter bins and moan when they overflow onto the street. The CoCo workers make no attempt to clean the streets properly because they have the attitude that "sure it'll only get dirty again, why should I bother?" Because it's you job you idle bastard. Clean the streets today and clean them again tomorrow, earn your paycheque. If the streets were clean to start with and there were adequate empty litter bins peoples attitudes would change.

They don't make it easy for people to dispose of the waste that naturally occurs in life, matresses, old boxes etc. What are people who live in the centre of towns and cities supposed to do? Take them on the bus to the dump? Local Govt Officials, get a grip, you usless gobshytes.

I could go on all night, I live in France, my bins are emptied every night( 6 am), yes, every night and the streets are swept and washed down every night. They are cleaned throughout the day by workers who live locally and care about their town. There are free dispensers for plastic bags to put you dog shyte in. Not only that, they refill the dispensers when they are empty.

It's just getting the basics right, then the kids grow up expecting to live in a clean environment. I hate to say it, but Ireland, not just the big cities, is a filthy kip and no one cares enough to do anything about it.

another1

i am a foreigner and must say - I've seen much worse places /regarding rubbish on the streets,etc...so calm down -that's not the big problem here.

Fratton Fred

Where I live in Sandycove it's not too bad, unless of course the sun comes out and all the ferengi seem to think its ok to visit the beach, drink ten cans of dutch gold, smoke 40 major and change the twins nappies three times, then **** off and leave it all for someone else to pick up. In fairness to DL council though, they are pretty quick to clear it up.

The one thing that really bugs me about Ireland though, is dog**** on the pavements. I'm a dog owner and I don't let my dog crap of the pavement and when she does crap somewhere, I always clear it up.

eirebhoy

Dublin has come on leaps and bounds from what it used to be. Every footpath in the city had plastic bags beside them. You don't see much of that now.

Mr.Pong

Yes, we are filthy apes who must be taught to be civilised. The old english anit-irish propaganda has worked wonders on some folks here.

Latchy

CatacombKittens wrote: »

In London at the mo and even though it's overpopulated it's still relatively cleaner.

Westminster is spotless becasue the Goverment and Tourists hang out there .

Kalashnikov_Kid

Anywhere outside the tourist hotspots in London, barring the odd exception (Kensington, Wimbledon, Canary Wharf), is a total dump.

Though Ive lived in Cardiff and tbh it must be contender for dirtiest capital city in Europe. If you dont believe me, look here: http://www.holytaco.com/wel

And trust me, its like that on an average Saturday night, not just after a 6nations match. And judging by the blog comments many feel that it could be any UK town at the weekend.

Latchy

Kalashnikov_Kid wrote: »

Anywhere outside the tourist hotspots in London, barring the odd exception (Kensington, Wimbledon, Canary Wharf), is a total dump.

Though Ive lived in Cardiff and tbh it must be contender for dirtiest capital city in Europe.

And trust me, its like that on an average Saturday night, not just after a 6nations match. And judging by the blog comments many feel that it could be any UK town at the weekend.

Which proves that some welsh people and some welsh citys are no different to their English, Scots and Irish counterparts