What is there to like about Ireland?

Cee-Jay-Cee

Having read/replied in a few different threads here in AH i was trying to think of something positive about ireland and being honest i cant think of anything. We have ****e weather, a ****e economy, ****e government and a ****e football team. If i had an opportunity to leave i wouldnt hesitate, the only thing that keeps me here is my family, i have loads of good friends but even they wouldnt be a good enough reason to stay if the opportunity presented itself. I often see people giving out about how so many people have to emigrate to the US, canada, australia to get jobs/work etc etc They way i see it is theyre the lucky ones that managed to get out of this **** hole...i'm sure if they were asked they'd say that too! It really has absolutely nothing going for it!

Rant over.

LightningBolt

Take a drive through Ireland when we have a decent days weather. Beautiful country.

What has a "****e" football team got to do with liking Ireland?

Oh_Noes

Everything except for the weather, the government, the economy and the football team.

They're all fairly insignificant in the greater scheme of things.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

In before someone mentions the airports (which reallty are nto all that good).

Cee-Jay-Cee

LightningBolt wrote: »

Take a drive through Ireland when we have a decent days weather. Beautiful country.

What has a "****e" football team got to do with liking Ireland?

Yes its a beautiful country on a good day but 95% of the days are wet/miserable/cold.

I just threw the football team in when i was listing all the rest of the crappy things...lets not start a football discussion!!!

Basically the country has nothing to offer as far as i can see.

Mickeroo

Thread a couple of weeks ago about the good shtuff. It didn't last very long as some people are only really happy when they're giving out about the place

pragmatic1

Family, friends, community, the craic, low crime compared to other countries, relatively high standard of living still, free healthcare, free education, no one starving to death, plenty of water, no real natural disasters, no dangerous animals.

WindSock

CJC999 wrote: »

Having read/replied in a few different threads here in AH i was trying to think of something positive about ireland and being honest i cant think of anything. We have ****e weather, a ****e economy, ****e government and a ****e football team. If i had an opportunity to leave i wouldnt hesitate, the only thing that keeps me here is my family, i have loads of good friends but even they wouldnt be a good enough reason to stay if the opportunity presented itself. I often see people giving out about how so many people have to emigrate to the US, canada, australia to get jobs/work etc etc They way i see it is theyre the lucky ones that managed to get out of this **** hole...i'm sure if they were asked they'd say that too! It really has absolutely nothing going for it!

Rant over.

Ders more to oirland, den dis.

ardinn

Its what you make of it, if you want to find fault you will - if you wanted to find the good, you could.

Easy look at the bad!

Badgermonkey

Catching sight of Mammy emerging from the mist, as she makes a curse-filled dash from the clothesline to the back door.

Sure where else........?

wolf moon

CJC999 wrote: »

We have ****e weather, a ****e economy, ****e government and a ****e football team

Weather, economy, government and football are generally sh!te and I personally couldn't give a single fcuk about any of them.

Think outside the box :rolleyes: or look at things from a different perspective.

My name is URL

If i had an opportunity to leave i wouldnt hesitate

You should set up a fund, and stick a link to it in your sig

mikemac

No matter where you go you take yourself with you

Doesn't matter if you go to Toronto or Melbourne or wherever, you will still be miserable OP

Laika1986

I know everyone moans about the weather here but realistically we have it sweet no extremes just the odd drop of rain

Jaxxy

mikemac wrote: »

No matter where you go you take yourself with you

Doesn't matter if you go to Toronto or Melbourne or wherever, you will still be miserable OP

This is the best thing I've read in a long time.

mikom

CJC999 wrote: »

If i had an opportunity to leave i wouldnt hesitate,

Please tell me where you would go so that I can cast my cold eye over it and pass judgement.

mikemac

JaxxYChicK wrote: »

This is the best thing I've read in a long time.

Yeah I saw that saying over in Personal Issues forum and told the poster I was going to steal it

It's so true

Jaxxy

And now I steal it from you. The circle is complete.

ItsAWindUp

I think that the people have a terrific sense of humour, and that we have a nice countryside, a drive through rural Ireland on a sunny evening is hard to beat.

Marty McFly

Grass is always greener.....................

mikemac

ItsAWindUp wrote: »

a drive through rural Ireland on a sunny evening is hard to beat.

A drive through rural Ireland and total strangers will salute you
And you must salute them

It's the rule, I love it

We're friendlier then the townies :cool:

fat__tony

Ireland is a great place to visit but not to live anymore. I felt like a tourist when I went back for two weeks in June

Its a strange feeling considering I spent over 26 years of my life there.

thebuzz

Great country when the sun is shining. ****e country on Saturday/Sunday afternoons when the Premiership matches are on.

mikom

fat__tony wrote: »

Ireland is a great place to visit but not to live anymore. I felt like a tourist when I went back for two weeks in June

Its a strange feeling considering I spent over 26 years of my life there.

How long you been away?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

mikom wrote: »

Please tell me where you would go so that I can cast my cold eye over it and pass judgement.

Because, wherever he's going, it's automatically worse than Ireland??

luvbulmers01 wrote: »

Grass is always greener.....................

Sometimes, yes, it actually is.

OPENROAD

I love the weather, also love Dublin.

mikom

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Because, wherever he's going, it's automatically worse than Ireland??

As opposed to the "everywhere else is automatically better than Ireland" sentiment in the opening post?

ProudDUB

Laika1986 wrote: »

I know everyone moans about the weather here but realistically we have it sweet no extremes just the odd drop of rain

Yep, just moved back from the southern US. You have no idea what it is to live thru hurricane and tornado season year after freaking year. Epic, biblical, Act of God, OMG The World is Ending Right Freaking Now, Stephen Speilberg movie stuff on a scale that Ireland never, ever experiences. Thank God. Look at how the country falls apart with just a few inches of snow !

My first day back in the country (last April) was the day after hundreds of people died in epic tornado out breaks. Logged onto my email and Facebook accounts, and had loads of emails and message from people telling me that they were still alive. WTF? Surreal experience. And what is even weirder is that after a couple of days, it was no longer even news over there. Mother Nature bit*h slapping people around over there just happens so much, people get bored by it pretty quickly, unless they are in a directly affected area. If that was Ireland, it would still be the lead news story every night, 3 months on.

But I digress. What is there to like about Ireland? Two words. Superquinn sausages.....nom, nom, nom !

kellogscoffey

mikemac wrote: »

A drive through rural Ireland and total strangers will salute you
And you must salute them

It's the rule, I love it

We're friendlier then the townies :cool:

Ha! So true! My townie girlfriend still has to ask everytime I wave at someone "Do you know them?" in a confused tone

We've got savage countryside in fairness, as boring as it sounds, Kerry and Galway are lovely spots

We've also got a wonderful inferiority complex, thinking that other countries are better than us ("isn't the road/health/education system in Country X wonderful?") which, funnily enough, evokes a lovely superiority complex ("sure we're doing far better better than Country X, considering their fabulous road/health/education system...") :pac:



(we've sh1te broadband though, as I refresh this page for the umpeenth time.)

Saila

CJC999 wrote: »

Having read/replied in a few different threads here in AH i was trying to think of something positive about ireland and being honest i cant think of anything. We have ****e weather, a ****e economy, ****e government and a ****e football team. If i had an opportunity to leave i wouldnt hesitate, the only thing that keeps me here is my family, i have loads of good friends but even they wouldnt be a good enough reason to stay if the opportunity presented itself. I often see people giving out about how so many people have to emigrate to the US, canada, australia to get jobs/work etc etc They way i see it is theyre the lucky ones that managed to get out of this **** hole...i'm sure if they were asked they'd say that too! It really has absolutely nothing going for it!

Rant over.

right OP magic wand time..

if you could go anywhere else where would it be? pre/post family..up to you

kincsem

Its a great country with less than 20% unemployed. Some third world countries have about 20% employed.
I ate today.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

mikom wrote: »

As opposed to the "everywhere else is automatically better than Ireland" sentiment in the opening post?

The opening post is a bit contradictory and does hint at positives about Ireland, but don't ask me - I didn't write it. I only questioned your point about assuming you could prove that ANY country the poster you were replying to mentioned would be worse.

mikom

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

The opening post is a bit contradictory and does hint at positives about Ireland, but don't ask me - I didn't write it. I only questioned your point about assuming you could prove that ANY country the poster you were replying to mentioned would be worse.

I can find a handful of shit points about any country ........... just like the op.
Nothing more, nothing less.

E.G.

Libya
+ Sun shining from the sky.
- Scud missiles falling from the sky.

Eroticfishcake

Irish people

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

mikom wrote: »

I can find a handful of shit points about any country ........... just like the op.
Nothing more, nothing less.

E.G.

Libya
+ Sun shining from the sky.
- Scud missiles falling from the sky.

You know, I was originally going to add in my original post "... he might not be going to a third world or war-torn country" but I thought, nah, he won't dtry to compare it to one of those, it'd be too easy.

Yes, there are negatiave aspects to any country, there is no Utopia, but my point is that maybe there better places to live to the person you were replying to.

inkwell

-nice people with good sense of humour (man ) -beautiful views -guiness -sea food -pubs with amazing atmosphere -and if you work here (or even if you dont) you dont have to worry about how to buy food in the end of the month (by the way wages paid weekly are great idea)

Adyx

I love the weather here too.

CrackisWhack

mikemac wrote: »

A drive through rural Ireland and total strangers will salute you
And you must salute them

It's the rule, I love it

We're friendlier then the townies :cool:

The same people that scowl at you when you walk into their local pub?

Orizio

Great thread OP. I think the real question is whether or not Ireland is the worst country in the world?

Personally, I envy all of those lucky ****ers in Sudan, North Korea, Somalia etc, have they ever had to deal with anything as horrific as Fianna Fail I wonder?

OPENROAD

Liveline.

Orizio

CrackisWhack wrote: »

The same people that scowl at you when you walk into their local pub?

Oh oh oh, 'witty' generalisations, I have one, everyone in Dublin is a drug dealer!

jive

Free healthcare and education. Those are two big things IMO. If we had better weather and a better economy we'd be living the dream. You could be doing a lot worse! The economy doesn't bother me too much because what good are material things when you're a withered old wánker anyway. As long as you have enough to comfortably get by then have the craic.

Pity about the fookin' weather though.

TimeToShine

no big spiders

OPENROAD

TimeToShine wrote: »

no big spiders

Lot of immigrant spiders starting to come in lately though, some of them are pretty big :eek:

Eroticfishcake

CrackisWhack wrote: »

The same people that scowl at you when you walk into their local pub?

Yup same people, get the f*ck out of our pub

Buceph

CJC999 wrote: »

a ****e football team.

On this point, and this one only, football isn't the be all and end all.

For sports and recreation we have;
The GAA: Iur own sports that no-one else plays and is absolutely massive here. I'm not a fan, but show a German or American tourist a hurling match and they'll be amazed.
Fishing: We have some of the best recreational fishing waters in the world, be it sea angling or whatever.
Golf: Some of the best links course in the world.
Sailing: One of the most interesting coasts, with beautiful harbours to stop in.
Cycling: The Ring of Kerry cycle had something like 8,000 people doing it. So many tourists like to cycle around and experience our countryside.
Hillwalking: Like cycling, Ireland is one of the most beautiful places to go hiking.
Boxing: To use a boxing term, we've punched above our weight in boxing for a very long time.
Surfing: We have some of the best waves in the world around our coast. Some of the biggest names of professional surfing come here to surf recreationally, as in they're not paid to come here for a tournament, they seek us out for their own fun.
Horses: Be it racing, where we breed some of the best horses in the world, showjumping, where we compete at some of the highest levels, or just going for a trek through the country or along the beach, we have an amazingly good equestrian industry here.
Rugby: We have some of the best teams in the world competing here.


So to be honest, you can take your "****e football team" when it comes to describing Ireland's sporting offerings, and you can shove it.

inkwell

jive wrote: »

Free healthcare .

Somebody explain me please, how is healthcare free? I paid 100 recently for Emergency visit (was waiting there 6 hourse and all was done is x-ray), every GP visit is 50, if you have to see specialist you have to wait few months or pay 150-200 for private.. What exactly is free?

shanered

I like the fact there is sooooo many things to dislike!

Alias G

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5emdftOIoos

Irish Guitarist

There's some lovely scenery. People should appreciate it more.

There isn't extreme weather like tornadoes and hurricanes like you would get in America or forty degree heat and water shortages in summer like there is in Cyprus (where my sister lives). There's the possibility of snow in winter. Miserable people and the RTE News whinge when that happens but most normal people like a bit of snow. There's even a song called White Christmas which is about how great it would be if it snowed at Christmas.

The government may be incompetent but you won't get tortured for speaking your mind like you would in some Middle Eastern countries.

You more than likely won't end up homeless.

I hate sport so it's fun to laugh at people who think it's the end of the world because someone didn't manage to kick a ball into a net.

Xios

There's 2 of these threads going....