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An example of how out of touch middle class Ireland is

  • 06-03-2010 10:24pm
    #1
    danger here
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0306/1224265695759.html

    I'm living on the continent for the past year.I would estimate in my city alone (Berlin) there are about 10,000 Irish people.The source of all knowledge,Wikipedia, puts a figure of 500,000 of Irish and second generation Irish on the continent,that is excluding the UK!Kathy Sheridan seems more concerned with spreading Dublin 4 dinnertable anecdotes of young Fionnachtna going to Australia on a 6 month visa picking fruit and smoking funny things and then going back to Ireland as evidence that emigration is overstated,than reporting fact.I could tell Kathy that most Irish exiles I know have no intention of going back,this is our home,not that Ms Sheridan knows much about Europe apart from going on an overpriced trip to Paris.Interestingly this author has previously described banker/gangster Sean Fitzpatrick as "a decent man" .


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  • #2
    streaky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭streaky


    danger here wrote: »
    I'm living on the continent for the past year.I would estimate in my city alone (Berlin) there are about 10,000 Irish people.The source of all knowledge,Wikipedia, puts a figure of 500,000 of Irish and second generation Irish on the continent,that is excluding the UK!

    Did you actually read the article? It's about emigration figures since the country went belly-up, so your 10,000/500,000 figures are completely irrelevant.
    danger here wrote: »
    Kathy Sheridan seems more concerned with spreading Dublin 4 dinnertable anecdotes

    You really didn't read the article, did you? There are as many reference to the west of Ireland as there are Dublin. Unless Ballaghaderreen has moved to Dublin 4?
    danger here wrote: »
    I could tell Kathy that most Irish exiles I know have no intention of going back,this is our home

    Good for you, you hero!
    danger here wrote: »
    not that Ms Sheridan knows much about Europe apart from going on an overpriced trip to Paris

    You seem very familiar with her travel history - do you know her? Is this, you know, personal?


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