State of Ireland

mehmeh12

Curious...what do people think of ireland's future in terms of the events of the last 12 months-nama, the recession, cutbacks, the new budget proposals, rise of unemployment. I mean as someone who just graduated from college last summer i cant help but feel really let down. Theres dosent seem to be much point in college these days, or getting a job if you find can one. Is this end of ireland?

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mehmeh12 wrote: »

Is this end of ireland?

No. Things are just shit for a lot of people at the moment, it's not literally the end of the world.

Fulton Crown

Ireland eh ?

A bumbling lame duck Government who cant make the decision that everybody knows they need to make . cut the public service pay bill.

A culture of no accountability ..no sanctions ...think the child abuse scandal...the greedy bankers....the incompetent regulator...the pigs in the trough at Fas..the obscent expenditure waste being revealed daily at ministerial level.

The flooding scandal...the Flood Tribunal...The Morris Tribunal...nod and wink culture...."forgetting" to tax Porches...inner circles..

A greedy public service who know they are being paid more than the country can afford......benchmarking.....still talking about public service reform.

But still able to go on the razz over in Paris at a football match.......and clog the school entrances and Border car parks with big fcukin battle tank SUV's driven by perma sunglasses wearing little bottle blondes ...

I dunno

orourkeda

Its all in Thierry Henry hands

MagicMarker

mehmeh12 wrote: »

Curious...what do people think of ireland's future in terms of the events of the last 12 months-nama, the recession, cutbacks, the new budget proposals, rise of unemployment. I mean as someone who just graduated from college last summer i cant help but feel really let down. Theres dosent seem to be much point in college these days, or getting a job if you find can one. Is this end of ireland?

You sure you went to college?

Jazzy

its very small and boring

SEPT 23 1989

If you have just left college you probably have no mortgage no kids etc and with a degree in your hand,apart from kids in primary or secondary school you are in the best possible position to ride out this depression

RealEstateKing

they are not anywhere near as **** as things are in most countries in the world.

And on the upside:

(1) For years in the Celtic Tiger we had a massively inflated view of what was possible for people growing up on this small, reasonably isolated little island. This has now gone away and we are reasonably back towards a more realistic attitude to life. This is Ireland, a small economy on the fringes of Europe, if you've got any wild ambitions/desire to be massively successful, move to London or New York.

(2) We have gone from an economy that grew from an upper second world one to a first world one over a period of about 15 years. We were sufficient in food and politically stable and relatively free of major ethnic conflicts/upheavals (The North being only as bad, even at it's peak, as South Central L.A.)

Most studies show, that as people move from that second world level of development, closer to the American level of development, they don't actually get any happier. In fact they get less happy, because they become hyper-aware of all the stuff that they don't have, instead of being grateful for the stuff that they do.

Now that the possibility of that American level of development is gone forever, we may actually begin to learn how to be happy again, something which has **** all to do with how many holiday homes you have and everything to do with your relationships to other human beings (once your basic needs are taken care of). This used to be something we were quite good at and we can learn it again.

Or, seeing as this is After Hours, the answer could just be "Your MA."

Pdfile

mehmeh12 wrote: »

Curious...what do people think of ireland's future in terms of the events of the last 12 months-nama, the recession, cutbacks, the new budget proposals, rise of unemployment. I mean as someone who just graduated from college last summer i cant help but feel really let down. Theres dosent seem to be much point in college these days, or getting a job if you find can one. Is this end of ireland?

ireland is like a jar of marmalade*.... the first few scoops of it are nice but the more you have the more you get sick of it... and you do quick.


* dont do this, you may get sick... and violently explode

stovelid

Move to somewhere like Darfur or Kabul and actually give yourself something to moan about.

Pdfile

stovelid wrote: »

Move to somewhere like Darfur and actually give yourself something to moan about.

what its not that bad... its like nassua st...


full of africans.... full of stuff nobody wants ... did i mention full of africans ?

genericguy

MagicMarker wrote: »

You sure you went to college?

the zoolander institute for kids who can't spell good.

AnonoBoy

That's what the wanted to rename Massachussetts for a while wasn't it?

AnonoBoy

Pdfile wrote: »

what its not that bad... its like nassua st...


full of africans.... full of stuff nobody wants ... did i mention full of africans ?

Nassau Street is full of Africans?

stovelid

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Nassau Street is full of Africans?

Nassau Street, Nairobi perhaps.

120_Minutes

The budget next week will cancel christmas. the great unwashed will rise up with pitchforks and torches, provided the can stay off drugs and booze. a gallows will be erected on kildare street, the rivers will run red with blood, dogs and cats living together....


...well a guy can dream.

AnonoBoy

stovelid wrote: »

Nassau Street, Nairobi perhaps.

Funnily enough they have a Celtic Note shop there too.

Noffles

Oh.... THIS is the post they told me to go to when I slagged this country.... now I see.....

-Trek-

120_Minutes wrote: »

The budget next week will cancel christmas. the great unwashed will rise up with pitchforks and torches, provided the can stay off drugs and booze. a gallows will be erected on kildare street, the rivers will run red with blood, dogs and cats living together....


...well a guy can dream.

Lynching party? when? where?

super_furry

State of Ireland? Bleedin' state o' you!

dvpower

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Nassau Street is full of Africans?

African Americans?